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axxxr
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Pirate copies of mobile phones is threatening to derail Sony Ericsson's growth, the company has admitted, pointing to fake branded phones being sold on the Asian market for a quarter of the price of the genuine product reports The Local,Sweden's News in English.
"All products of any value get copied. It's also happening with our products," said Sony Ericsson's Nordic head of marketing, Per Alksten.
In a country such as China, which has been hailed as a copycat's heaven and where 90 million mobile phones were sold in the first ten months of the year, there is a natural temptation to sell exclusive models at a fraction of the price.
When Sony Ericsson released its music-mobile Walkman W800 in China, pirate copies came out on the market at the same time. The Chinese company Music King has produced a version of the W800 which is almost identical to the original. Just the logo reveals that it is a copy - and it costs a quarter of the price of Sony Ericsson's product.
"As soon as we are aware that there is a copy, our lawyers begin working intensively to stop them," said Per Alksten.
"For us, this is about protecting our trademark and being able to guarantee that customers who buy a Sony Ericsson phone have got an original product."
On the Swedish advertising site annonsfynd.se there has been an ad for two models of the Sony Ericsson W900 - which does not come out until next year. The price demanded is 2,500 kronor each - more than half the real retail price.
"It's pure fraud - or theft of preview models," warned Alksten.
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BobaFett
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china should produce copy mashines for xerox, olivetti, hp etc...
anyway, its so weird. almost evry se models ( w8 incl ) are made in china. so probably the same co. or sy from the chinese se insiders should produce those wonders... actually, what do they copy? only the design, or the hw and fw aswell ( using other icons ? )
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This is interesting. Boba raised an issue: do the pirated copies include original OS/firmware or its just a copy too? If its the former, SE will have to find the traitor within its organisation.
But I suspect that even the firmware would be some sort of copy as well, probably much the same way people pirate Microsoft products and put them on CDs for sale?
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These hong-kong knock-off phones are just look-alikes. They have less expensive internal components. For example, the K750/W800 knock-off has a 1.3 fixed focus digicam (rather than 2.0 autofoucus on the real ones). So they're cheap... but they're CHEAP too...  |
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As you can see from these examples the copys are almost exact apart from the larger screen on the fake W800.
Fake k700 alongside the real deal
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was china the first place to copy the wheel ~ just a little bigger |
BobaFett
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has any of u got the chance to test it "live" any of those fones? are there any pix from the menu etc?
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Posted: 2005-12-08 03:35
