Smartphones For $100 In 1-2 Years?
At least this is what Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer believes will happen:
“Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer expects smartphones powered by the company’s Windows Mobile software to sell for $100 within one or two years, which would create a huge market. “We will get smartphones at consumer style prices,” Ballmer said in an interview on Tuesday at the 3GSM wireless trade show. “I think it will take a year or two before we get to $100 type offerings (of Windows Mobile devices). I may be wrong, but not by much,” he told Reuters. Today’s Windows Mobile smartphones sell for between $200 and $300, before operator subsidies.”
You can read the rest of the interview with him over at Reuters.