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Nokia N97: Six months from shop floor to recycle bin? |
snoFlake
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Article via Electric Pig HERE
The Nokia N97 has only been on sale since June, but the heavyweight flagship phone from the Finns is already being discarded at a clip, according to one phone recycler more than any other smartphone of 2009, in fact.
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It's not just SE that get panned - if you produce rubbish people will cotton on.....eventually. Especially when there are new coompetitors with competent offerings. |
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Tsepz_GP
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LOL!  WOW!  ,I hope NOKIA have learnt a valuable lesson,there's simply no longer any room for lazyness, if it wasnt for the N900, E72 and the XpressMusic S60v5 line-up they would be in serious trouble,not like this is bad enough though.
And once again,its not just SE who get it bad when they make crappy phones,big shocker,eh?
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hihihans
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They better watch it or we'll all be having a Samsung 
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Bonovox
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Samsung are already biting Nokia's backside as they are just behind them in the market. Nokia make alot of decent phones but they need to pull their socks up or the will find themselves back to the days when they first started out. Making footwear 
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goldenface
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That doesn't surprise me, its been a nightmare for users for a long time now.
The old school manufacturers need to step up their game.
Moto had a great fall and is now bouncing back. Much the same thing will happen to SE - I predict it will make a come back this year. If Nokia takes a hit then it will never regain the top spot again from Samsung.
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Nanu
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On 2010-01-19 10:39:00, Bonovox wrote:
Samsung are already biting Nokia's backside as they are just behind them in the market. Nokia make alot of decent phones but they need to pull their socks up or the will find themselves back to the days when they first started out. Making footwear
They actually started out making paper, but sure enough moved onto footwear when they moved onto rubber production! 
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Bonovox
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Look at how Samsung or even LG just know the market. Their Star and Cookie phones have both each sold around ten million worldwide in less than a year. Samsung even are doing well with smartphones too with minimum effort. Nokia are still doing very well with their current Xpress Music range. Their 5530xm model shot to the top spot within one week. Their s40 range sell well too but people are starting to notice and get pissed with Nokia with the problems with their high end devices. Sony Ericsson thankfully are coming up trumps with the Satio now in the UK in terms of sales since re-release. Lets hope its a continuing trend. Nanu yes making paper then Nokia may end up going back to making cardboard for mobile phone boxes for Samsung LOL 
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glorfingal
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let's just pray the X10 doesn't suffer from the usual SE software gremlins !!!
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Bonovox
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Indeed
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anonymuser
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It just goes to show that the expectations of consumers are rising - and after losing money on a quick "get rid" of an expensive phone like the N97, they're going to be even more cautious when approaching new phones as they come on the market. Something that bugsmith's like SE need to be really aware of.
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Bonovox
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I was in Carphone one day and whilst waiting some guy was there and he had brought back his 4th faulty N97. The store would not give him a different phone just replace it with another of the same despite clearly stating that every single one had the same faults. If he had been given another one it would be the same again. I can understand how people feel paying such a premium every month for a contract for a high end handset but all they get is shite products. The guy in the store wanted a Satio but at that time that too had been removed from sale. Ya can't win and i think these companies need to seriously sort out their product problems because they will find themselves in alot of deep water with people signing upto contracts and not getting what they pay for. Not good enough in my eyes.
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dizzybee
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CPW should have let him swap the phone. I have found that some CPWs are dodgy. One I was in wouldn't let a german guy cancel his contract within the 14 days. Instead he put a bolt on on for him that cost an extra fiver or something a month so he could call germany. The one near me seems fine though, friendly staff, nothing dodgy about it. Unlike that one I was in.
Yes it simply isn't good enough to buy ANY phone and for it to have such problems. Samsung and LG really are catching up, they know what people want buy doing market research. Not by taking the SE approach and telling consumers they either want camera or music. Only recently have they stopped doing this. |
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