Americans Replace Fastest Phones

If Finland, Nokia, Home Base, compete, take some of the blame for the one-time leader of the recent fighting in smartphones?

New research shows Finnish consumers have to buy the award as some of the slowest in the world to get new phones whopping six years to wait before investing in a new telephone number.

The British, however, buy a new phone every 22 months and the French to replace their phones every two and a half years according to research by Recon Analytics, compared to spending habits in 14 countries.

"Perhaps it is no coincidence that Nokia is having a hard time given to develop smartphones that will replace in its home market, so few people have their phones," said Entner.

Consumers change their phones every 21.7 months in the United States, home of the most powerful smartphone Nokia-rival Apple Inc. in South Korea, where another big rival Samsung is based, consumers are buying new equipment every 26 months.

Entner was quick to point out that his research is no scientific evidence of a link between the slow replacement rate of Finnish Nokia and competitive difficulties, most of their cell phones instead sold abroad.

But weak demand at home can phone the sense of urgency, under Nokia's developers have dulled.

"The innovative pressure is not so high," when most people are around them all with old mobile phones, Entner said.

Income can make a difference in replacement rates, but in this case Entner pointed out that Finland is the income level roughly in line with the United Kingdom and France.

Instead found Entner carrier subsidy levels tend to play the biggest role in exchange between different countries. He used grants to support the Apple Inc. iPhone 4 as the basis for his study.
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In many countries, including the United States subsidize wireless service providers a portion of the cost of their mobile phones to entice customers to commit to a long-term contract.

To illustrate, compared Entner, a UK iPhone carrier subsidy of $ 660 with a $ 379 grant in France and a $ 84 subsidy in Finland, which started only a few years so that its wireless service provider to subsidize handsets.

But the home must excuse to only work for Nokia.

For example, do Canadian rival Research In Motion difficult to use to compete for the same reason for their struggles. Canadians finally replace their phones twice as often as the Finns.

Finns are not the slowest in the world, to replace their mobile phones. Most recently in the study was India, where income levels are 14 times lower than that of the U.S. consumer and the people keep their phones for 93.6 months or 8 years.

In Brazil, the second slowest of land for replacement, the people wait nearly 81 months before changing her cell phone while in Israel to update, consumer demand for 76.5 months, only two months later than in Finland.