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Sony Ericsson should produce more mid-end symbian series 60 smartphones |
mib1800
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On 2005-08-28 06:22:24, max_wedge wrote:
Mib: "I agree with you operators are pushing these phones out cheaply in the hope that people will take up 3G services. I think the day where buyer says "ah I want use 3G services so I must buy a 3G phone" is still some way off. "
I completely agree. Infact, that is the part of the premise of my argument that SE still have time to prepare their smartphone strategy, and to increase the smartphone proportion of their line-up, and still be competitive against Nokia when they do so.
I believe you could equally say "ah I want use smartphone features, so I must buy a smartphone" is still some way off. "  (ducks....)
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Sure. SE still got time to prepare but this window is getting smaller and smaller. It needs a 3G + smartphone and hopefully it is not going to be as expensive as the P series.
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max_wedge
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I believe they are preparing now - writing UIQ3, testing the 3G waters with K600 (not to bad a phone, in a reasonably compact form factor).
I can't see the replacement for P910 being anything but UIQ3 based, and I expect they will bring out a hard screen candybar UIQ3 device at the same time.
They have put all their smartphone effort to this end (UIQ3 development), and that is why the P series has seen no development. In truth, the P series is dead, and the UIQ3 smartpheonix (get it  ) will rise from it's ashes.
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mib1800
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| The sales we are seeing now are difficult to attribute to genuine interest in those features though. What we have is a market where Mokia is increasingly offering smartphone as part of its portfolio and where 3G handsets are increasingly being pushed on customers. What we don't have is an objective model whereby one could actually examine either and see whether customers were actually buying these products because they wanted those features rather than becaus eof the deal they are getting; that they thing the product looks good, etc.
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I agree partly with you on this. Unfortunately, it would be very difficult (or near impossible) to ascertain whether buyers are using these 3G/smartphone features or not. Does it even matter or change anything even if we know this?
Maybe we just look at the handset itself. Why is it the 6680 sold so well that it can help propel Nokia to #1 spot for 3G. Why is it not the V800/z800 for SE? Every manufacturers have one or two 3G phones and should have same equal opportunity to succeed.
Maybe I'm revisiting old points but one thing I do know is that smartphone is growing much faster than general market. Even if you exclude Nokia, other smartphone vendors (microsoft/palm) have similar growth. The smarter bet is still with a smartphone than without one. Can the 6680 success is due to the attention grabbing 3G+edge+smartphone all-in-one?
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renxiangster
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I am now adding a twist here: Sony Ericsson should create more MID-END smartphones. Price range is about the nokia 3230 or the nokia 7610. |
Sony Ericsson Indonesia
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they should flood the market nokia style
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Kryptik
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Do you think they'll be able to catch up to Nokia should they do that? My biggest concern would be that should they flood the market their quality standards may slip ever so slightly, and i can just imagine the outcry on this site... I think SE should possibly release a few more models with greater regularity, but certainly not as frequently as Nokia. As quite correctly stated in another thread (S.African Mobile Discussion), Nokia seem to change the colour of the handset, add 1 feature and add an "i" onto the phone's name, e.g. 9300/i. It would be a sad day should SE start following this trend...
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slattery69
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yes as we d never see se release the same handset with only small feature change and give it another name like k750/w800.
thats just to nokia for se to ever contemplate doing |
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Posted: 2005-08-28 16:31
