The global economic crises has hit everyone, from huge conglomerates, to small mom and pop shops. Although it has been focused on hitting the construction and motor industries pretty hard, it has ensured it is fair, by continuing to reak havoc on all industries. One of these industries, has of course been mobile phones.

Now, of course we all need mobile phones in today’s fast pace, always connected world. However, we don’t always need to upgrade and get the newest and latest models. This is where the manufacturers have really been hit. Poepl have chosen to rather upgrade or buy a less spec’d out phone, that purchase the latest and greatest. In some cases, poeple have chosen to not upgrade at all, but just keep their existing phone. This has resulted in the following (source: vnunet): World-wide sales figures have dropped by 5%. Now 5% might not seem that large, but when you are dealing with multi-millions, that 5% soon becomes an astronomical figure.

The question is, where does this leave the manufacturers coming out with advanced top-end phones, like the Samsung i8510 Innov8?