Times running out to score one of the best Prime Day smartphone deals
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Smartphone vendors are leaning harder on event-driven discount cycles, which pulls upgrade timing toward Amazon’s calendar rather than carriers’. If you build mobile-first products, watch these cycles—they increasingly dictate when large user cohorts turn over hardware capabilities.
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