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For Bill Wilson, it's simple. He won't pay $1,000 for a smartphone. Period.  Wilson is in ample company. This week's earnings reports for Apple and Samsung both showed a clear trend: consumer resistance to the ever-growing high prices of premium smartphones.  from https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2019/08/03/consumers-tell-apple-and-samsung-no-thanks-to-1000-dollar-smartphones/1900716001/ https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2019/08/02/USAT/b8e39e8b-bdcd-40f4-9745-5c45947b6301-GettyImages-1031455680.jpg?width=580&height=326&fit=bounds&auto=webp

Filings made with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may have revealed two upcoming smartphones from Google. Documents posted by the government agency today show two new devices from the company, quite possibly the Pixel 3 Lite and Pixel 3 XL Lite handsets that have been rumored for months. from https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/25/fcc-filing-google-pixel-3-lite-xl/ https://o.aolcdn.com/images/dims?quality=85&image_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fo.aolcdn.com%2Fimages%2Fdims%3Fcrop%3D3000%252C2250%252C0%252C0%26quality%3D85%26format%3Djpg%26resize%3D1600%252C1200%26image_uri%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fs.yimg.com%252Fos%252Fcreatr-images%252F2019-02%252Fd7c13ce0-3916-11e9-afdf-42cc45bafc47%26client%3Da1acac3e1b3290917d92%26signature%3Db3468a5914ff50aa36ddc48be350de295c2a0406&client=amp-blogside-v2&signature=0fc89f709c8c959104553a87c918a7e0b407ae45