{"id":659881,"date":"2013-05-23T15:15:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T19:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=587706"},"modified":"2013-05-23T15:15:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T19:15:29","slug":"blackberry-nokia-apple-could-be-hurt-by-flood-of-good-enough-android-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/659881","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry, Nokia, Apple could be hurt by flood of \u2018good enough\u2019 Android phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/23\/android-cheap-handset-analysis\/\" class=\"bgr-rss-featured-image bgr-rss-test-class\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.wp.com\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/androidsmile-e1344431101780.jpg?resize=610%2C436\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Android Cheap Handset Analysis\" title=\"Android Cheap Handset Analysis\" width=\"610\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><\/center>While <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/23\/galaxy-s4-sales-q2-2013\/\">strong early sales for the Galaxy S4<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/htc-one\">HTC One<\/a> have been making news lately, the real story for <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/android\">Android<\/a> may be how well it does with lower-cost handsets in emerging markets. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.barrons.com\/techtraderdaily\/2013\/05\/23\/aapl-bbry-nok-to-suffer-android-smartphone-surge-says-nomura\/\"><em>Barron&#8217;s<\/em> points us<\/a> to a new note from\u00a0Nomura Equity Research analyst Stuart Jeffrey, who thinks that many consumers in emerging markets will start upgrading to smartphones primarily because of &#8220;the increasing affordability and improved distribution of &#8216;good enough&#8217; Android phones.&#8221; But Jeffrey thinks that what&#8217;s good for Android vendors is likely bad for non-Android vendors and notes that Nokia could find the emerging market transition from feature phones to smartphones particularly challenging.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/05\/23\/android-cheap-handset-analysis\/\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/hs6ef2V5Vb4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While strong early sales for the Galaxy S4 and the HTC One have been making news lately, the real story for Android may be how well it does with lower-cost handsets in emerging markets. Barron&#8217;s points us to a new note from\u00a0Nomura Equity Research analyst Stuart Jeffrey, who thinks that many consumers in emerging markets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-659881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}