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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
05-31-2019, 03:49 PM
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Sorry I don't understand the problem. 3g phones still work just fine. No you don't get 5g speed but that isn't the point. If you are happy with your 3g then you don't need 4g or 5g so there is no problem. Where I live we have 4g (sometimes) and 3g (sometimes) and sometimes we drop to 1x. Doesn't matter, the phone switches as needed. And I doubt I will live long enough to see 5g installed here.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
05-31-2019, 06:30 AM
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I don't think that is correct. My 4G phone will work just fine on a 3g network. And all of the new 5g phones will work on a 4g or 3g network.
My sister-in-law does that. I don't know how but her Facebook is a continuous stream of every picture she takes on her cell phone. 50 - 100 every day. At least it was before I blocked her..................
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
05-30-2019, 08:34 PM
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Of course not, just that in general we are not leaping after the 'shiny new thing' every few months. At least fewer people are. And that is not a bad thing IMHO. A slower more deliberate development cycle allows time for meaningful improvement as well as real testing for QC.
I suppose compacts are not completely doomed either. I own a very nice Sony rx100 but that's not really a cheap P&S. What I do not see is young people with small cheap cameras. They either have a fairly nice DSLR / MILC or they use a smartphone. Older folks that are used to a 'real' camera, yeah they still buy the little P&S ones. But when a smartphone has as good a sensor as the little P&S and not really a much better lens then yeah the smartphone wins.
But even smartphones are struggling to come up with a 'shiny new thing' that will drive more sales. That is not to say the market is shrinking, it is in fact growing very nicely. Just that the life cycle of a particular device is much longer than it once was. And that is a good thing I think.
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Forum: Pentax News and Rumors
05-30-2019, 07:31 PM
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Well I think many would agree that smartphones have destroyed the cheap point & shoot market. Anyone who used one of those is much happier with a smartphone. But smartphones have not (yet) replaced real cameras (DSLRS or other interchangeable lens gear).
Maturing technology is slowing down the churn we have seen in years past, both in smartphones and in DSLRs and in computers and tablets for that matter. For a while I was getting a new smartphone nearly every year. But my Galaxy 7 works just fine, I see nothing in any of the newer models that would entice me to buy so I'll keep it until I break it. Same with cameras. I went k-x>k-5>k-5IIs>k-3>k-3II>k-1. But honestly the K-3II is just fine and I still shoot with it. I love the K-1 but would be just fine with the K-3II as well. Nothing out there has improved enough over the K-3II to tempt me to buy another APS-C camera.
I don't think this is all doom and gloom, just that people are not churning new toys every 12 months. Now maybe it's 24 or 36 or 48 months. Companies that bet the farm on selling a new model every year are in trouble. Those that slowed development to match demand are not.
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