$10 cellphone may be coming in two years

by Brian White, posted Apr 13th 2007 at 5:33AM

With Motorola not making a heckuva lot of profit these days, can it and the other handset makers really get a $10 handset to market? Some at UC Berkeley's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) say that it may be possible to get a $10 cellphone -- likely targeted at emerging markets -- on the streets. Still, can it be done from a cost and logistics perspective? CITRIS in California (no pun intended) believes such a handset could be on the global market within a few years if any Taiwanese contract manufacturers care to sign up to the vision. With Taiwan's Quanta being the top maker of the $100 OLPC laptop computer system that is shipping, perhaps a $10 cellphone can, in fact, be done. After all, the MOTOFONE ain't that far away.

Filed under: Handsets, Misc

Tags: cheap, cheap handsets, CheapHandsets, citris, developing market wireless phones, DevelopingMarketWirelessPhones, emerging markets, EmergingMarkets, entry level, entry level handsets, EntryLevel, EntryLevelHandsets, low cost, LowCost, uc berkeley, UcBerkeley

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