In a previous post, I talked about a low-cost $15 phone. The GSM Association promoted development of a mobile phone costing less than $30 with a contest. Motorola won, and is now developing phones for Bangladesh, China, India and Russia. Now GSM is pushing development of phones costing less than $15, which should speed global handset adoption even further.
Not all phones in developing countries will be low-end. Once developing countries have low-cost phones, companies will continue to upsell phones and services. According to an April 2005 IDC study, China will have nearly 100 million 3G subscribers by 2009.
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Fifteen dollar cell phones are really pushing it, especially since cell phone batteries cost about $15 or so. I’ve actually considered buying one of those $20 tracefones or whatever they’re called just to get a battery and “charger” for some of my electronic projects.