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Marketing Android Phones

Android has a bit of a problem in it's variety of hardware.

With many companies producing a lot of different Android phones pretty soon there's going to an issue for sellers and buyers of what, exactly, IS an Android phone?

Does an Android phone have resistive or capacitive screens? GPS? Bluetooth 2, 3 or whatever evolves, 802g or n? 4Mp camera or 6Mp? Flash? Physical keyboard?

People buying iPhones know what they're getting, and they know if they buy the next one it's a bit better than the one before. An iPhone 3 is better than an iPhone 2 but not as God as an iPhone 4.

So I was thinking that Android needs a sort of classification to help keep it clear in peoples minds what they're getting or what to look for.

I call it Marvin

A Marvin 1 phone is gauranteed to have a certain set of features, GPS, Bluetooth, Memory, Processor speed et al.

A Marvin 2 is gauranteed to have a certain set of featrues, the sum of which is better than a Marvin 1, and so forth.