Walmart to sell Apple iPhone 5 for $127 starting December 17th

4. maxican16 (Posts: 364; Member since: 29 Sep 2011)

Two years! That's practically ancient in mobile technology. Two years ago I had a single core phone with half a gig of RAM. No thanks. Things evolve, and quickly. Just be happy with what you have instead of worrying about resale value.

6. cripton805 (Posts: 1484; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)

Please take into consideration, that I'm talking about VERSIONS not different products.

Let's suppose the Note 2 came out this year and the GS3 last.
The Note 2 would be released in 2014 and GS3 in 2013.

So there would always be a new product on the table and Samsung would benefit by a higher profit margin because older technology is worth less and would stay in the market longer at a higher price. Different models would have different release dates, but the phones verison would have a two year changes. This is extreme, but I thought at least once a year was pushing it. This drives any technology to dirt cheap prices. Now with the new plans, the new phones will be for say $900 then $400 or less in 6 months. Then $50-$100 by say a year.

If you buy a phone at the last month of it's life. (6th month) That means by 1 year there would be two generations on top of it!

13. PAPINYC (banned) (Posts: 2315; Member since: 30 Jul 2011)

I still think that thid Walmart deal is $126.9 9 overpriced.

25. nwright94 (unregistered)

*sigh* just like with megapixels, number of cores don't mean much. The A6, like it or not, still performs admirably for an "obsolete" dual core processor compared to some of the newer processors like the s4 pro.

28. ardent1 (Posts: 2000; Member since: 16 Apr 2011)

The world is using more graphics and Apple, Inc has been leading GUI since 1980's.

The A6 has phenomenon capabilities and btw it's a 3-core GPU.
(source:http://www.anandtech.com/show/6323/apple-a6-die-revealed-3core-gpu-100mm2 )

8. nyamo (Posts: 274; Member since: 19 Mar 2011)

i wouldn't say winning the war, but it does come as a surprise that apple is allowing retailers to price differently than what the corp stores are doing

14. MeoCao (unregistered)

Android is winning the war clearly now sir. We see how the demand is high for Nexus 4, Droid DNA/Butterfly, Note 2, One X+ and even 6 month old GS3.

And the fact that iPhone 5 cannot sell even with heavy subsidy in US speaks volumes.

27. quakan (Posts: 1396; Member since: 02 Mar 2011)

Walmart set that price for holiday sales and don't forget that Walmart is a retail top boss that has a lot of power.

11. darkkjedii (Posts: 24343; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)

Dumb bashing, dumb post, dumb dumb, and did I mention dumb.

12. blingblingthing (Posts: 570; Member since: 23 Oct 2012)

You took his iPhone bashing personal?

19. darkkjedii (Posts: 24343; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)

No just come up with some better ones so I can laugh

15. MeoCao (unregistered)

Hey dude, I like your name a lot but you can't understand when people talk fuguratively? And THAT's dumb.

16. EclipseGSX (Posts: 1737; Member since: 18 Oct 2011)

So why comment? Thumb down and move the f**k on...

20. darkkjedii (Posts: 24343; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)

I do what the hell I want. Now thumb that down and move the f**k on

21. darkkjedii (Posts: 24343; Member since: 05 Feb 2011)

Wow really, cuz they look pretty alive to me.

30. cripton805 (Posts: 1484; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)

Phones should drop pricing as the technology gets older...

Apple was the only company not doing it because they had their customers suckered.