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Old 11-06-2014, 03:35 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by tubemonkey View Post
If Amazon can't move the inventory it's sitting on, they can always drop the price and rebrand it as the Fire Mini. I'd get one.
Yes, I can see how this might make sense especially for a company like Amazon with their razor-and-blades model for device and content.

After reading the responses on this thread, I think my imagined scenario of scads of cheap decommissioned and worthwhile smartphones might be a little early. In the future when we see old decommisioned smartphones with 2-3 GB of RAM and removable batteries like LG G3s and Samsung Galaxy S4s and S5s and Galaxy Note 3s and 4s, we'll be at a great point for reading (high pixels/inch) and video watching (high RAM) and everything else except perhaps future games, which may need even more RAM and processing power.

If one needs protected WMA decoding, for the present at least (who knows if we'll need it in the future for OverDrive?), after these many years of smartphones and none of them supporting protected WMA (thanks booklover6, for testing it on Windows Phone!), it might be wise to own an MP3 player or two that can play OverDrive WMA audiobooks.
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