Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Is It The End Of The Line For Mobile Phone Fascias?

By Fatima Siddiqi

It used to be an everyday occurrence to match the fascia of your mobile phone with whatever you chose to wear at the time. This was considered a trendy thing to do, and did not just relate to your clothes, but also to the type of accessories you wore, right down to the colour of the polish on your finger nails.

The mobile phone fascia, a brilliant idea introduced by Nokia, allowed you to buy as many different fascias of various patterns, designs and colours and these were without doubt all the rage at this particular time. Other mobile phone manufacturers followed suit and it was not long before the trend became extremely popular with all kinds of fascias appearing on the scene.

Nonetheless, as with many fashion statements, this particular one is not so popular at the moment. This is due mainly to the mobile phone companies discovering that sales of such items brought about a decline in mobile phone sales. For this reason, they decided a change in tack was needed and began to sell the existing mobile phones in different colours instead.

This was done to sell more handsets that would lead to more profit. While the fascias could only bring a couple of bucks which meant that in spite of selling a hundred of such casings would not yield much profit, selling even ten mobile phones could bring in more profit and market share.

Following on from this, people looking to buy mobile phones started to take more care when deciding which one to buy. After all, they wanted their mobile to complement their personality for at least the duration of the phone contract.

Therefore, the recent years have seen a decline in the trend since mobiles have become cheaper and people prefer changing the entire mobile rather than just changing the external covering. Moreover, one can even buy a sim free mobile phone these days which does not require any registration and can be used any time you want to change your phone. There are many more advantages of sim free mobile phones since you don't need to go through rigorous security checks. You can even buy a sim free mobile phone as a surprise gift for your loved one since you don't need to register it during purchasing. The best part about a sim free mobile phone is that you can take it with you when you change networks or operators. Moreover, these mobile phones come with a variety of features as well.

Offering you a wide range of entertainment, you can surf the web, pick up your emails, take a look at the world news headlines keep up with the activities of your friends on Facebook and Twitter type social networking sites, not to mention the use of video playback facilities and games.

The digital photography on these phones is every bit as good as a camera and it means you don't have to carry more equipment around with you. You can take pictures and videos and this is the reason why these kinds of phones are used regularly by people working for the media allowing them to capture news events just as they happen and keep ahead of their game. - 16890

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