Well, you can now through Motorola’s “Instantmoto”, a vending machine stocked with mobile handsets and phone accessories and deployed at airports and malls. The Instantmoto vending machines are up and running, including one in the Macy's store in Chicago's Loop and another at San Francisco International Airport. Motorola will be deploying these vending machines initially in 20 different US locations.
In the past, mobile operators such as Vodafone in the UK have been selling handsets using vending machines but Motorola claims to be the first handset vendor that has taken this approach. Handset vendors are now facing competition not only from the emerging vendors and ODMs but also from the mobile operators who...
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Sep 22 2006, 01:17 AM
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