Each time more and more cellular phone users seek to have as many things in them as possible. Long gone are the days when people wanted a cellular phone just to make a call or two; now, with text messaging, it is almost as if there are no barriers. Teenagers as well as young adults can text message friends not only in the same city or country, but also in the same continent or even across the globe.
Cellular companies have created “unique” cellular phones, specific brands, and styles of phones that are only able to be used with their company have created a large and prosperous underground market where all cellular phones can be unlocked and the “uniqueness” of the companies can be overridden.
Now, anyone can have a cellular phone that works for any company; but who are the ones that are reaping the benefits of this practice? It certainly is not the middle or sales person; it is the Asian manufacturers who are reaping bills by the bulk; just by creating and manufacturing cellular phones that have special features and characteristics that most of the brand cellular phones do not have, such as color, mp3 or mp4 capacities and the like.
Thus, in the near future, mobile companies will have to get their own thinking caps and create a way to attract all those customers who own Asian-manufactured phones and who bounce from company to company as they please. The days of the “unique” cellular phones are numbered.