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#279895 15-Nov-2020 21:01
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Here's something I've never seen before:

 

https://www.vodafone.co.nz/samsung-galaxy/galaxy-a01/

 

https://www.2degrees.nz/shop/mobile-phones/samsung/galaxy-a01

 

https://www.spark.co.nz/shop/mobile/phones/samsung-galaxy-a01-core.html

 

The exact same phone, on all three carriers. On Vodafone/2degrees, it comes with 16GB of storage, but the Spark version has 32GB. How does that work? Is this a common thing?
Like I said...never seen this happen before.

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Dial111
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  #2604392 15-Nov-2020 21:15
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The Spark phone is a different model.



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  #2604709 16-Nov-2020 13:22
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It's pretty common and often comes down to time-to-market. One variant is available earlier, another comes later, sometimes one (or more, even all) telcos/channels will skip the first available option in favour of a better or differently-specced one, or the brand will offer one channel an exclusive upspecced/downspecced version of the same model at a different price. Sometimes it's more storage, sometimes it's more RAM.

 

Just part of the channelisation strategy.

 

See also: locked and unlocked variants of the same phone being sold side-by-side, and the old TV/laptop chestnut of "Sorry, we can't price match as ours is model 12345B, not 12345A."

 

The interesting one I've seen in NZ this year was the late launch of the 4G-only variant of the Galaxy S20+. Guess someone wanted enough of them to justify bringing it in!




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