5 High-Tech Gadget that Will Cost You More in This Year

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(Free-Press-Release.com) January 30, 2012 -- 5 High-Tech Gadget that Will Cost You More in This Year

Watch out: Cameras, hard drives, PCs, and mobile data will all cost more in 2012.

Every day, stories appear about a price drop for this or that tech gadget. As a result, consumers have a tendency to delay spending. After all, why buy something today that will be cheaper tomorrow?

That won’t be the case for everything in 2012, though. Here is a list of tech products and services whose prices are expected to rise in the coming months. If you’re shopping for any of them, you might want to buy sooner rather than later.

Digital Cameras
Smartphones, such as the Apple iPhone 4S and the T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slide (which won out as the best smartphone camera in our tests last year), are eating into the low end of the digital camera market. Numbers for the digital point-and-shoot camera market were down 17 percent in units and 18 percent in dollars for the first 11 months of 2011, according to the NPD Group.

By contrast, during the same period, digital cameras with detachable lenses saw a 12 percent increase in units shipped, and an 11 percent bump up in dollars. More expensive point-and-shoot cameras with large zooms also saw increases during the time frame–16 percent in units shipped and 10 percent in dollars.

Camera makers can see the handwriting on the wall. They’re going to be adding features and pumping up the quality of their new cameras, and you can expect all of that to translate into higher camera prices in the coming months.

Hard Drives

The price of storage has shown a nice, steady decline in the past, but not this year.

Flooding of historic proportions in Thailand last year has disrupted the hard-drive supply chain. Thailand accounts for up to 45 percent of worldwide hard-drive production, and the flooding has damaged more than a dozen hard-drive factories, according to market research firm IDC.

Bargain-hunting site DealNews.com says that the flooding has forced some retailers to ration hard-drive-based products over the past year–and that has reduced the number of discounts that merchants can offer on hard-drive products. DealNews predicts that hard-drive shortages will continue throughout the first quarter of 2012. IDC, however, anticipates that hard-drive prices will stabilize by June, and that the industry should return to normal by the second half of the year.

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