This year's holiday shopping season is the first during which Verizon Wireless and its rivals are banking on high-end handsets at lower prices to attract consumers to data services like e-mail, video and music.

U.S. mobile operators are spending billions of dollars to upgrade their networks to deliver these data services but smartphones have not been a big hit so far with consumers.

Verizon Wireless, the No. 2 U.S. mobile service, hopes a bigger variety of cheaper smartphones will attract mass demand, though some analysts questioned whether there were too many models in the market already. 

The enV will sell for $149 to customers who commit to a two-year contract. That is half the $300 that smartphones typically fetched until this year.

By: DocMemory
Copyright © 2023 CST, Inc. All Rights Reserved