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floke
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The guy who wrote the book has really put a lot of effort in it. Well written and even exciting and many big colourful pictures.
Hehe, 480 pages are a bit too much to scan 
BTW why cant I see the pic I uploaded to Esato no longer?
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floke
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While I'm at it I'm presenting another book in my bookshelf: "The Ugly Duckling". It covers the history of Ericsson Mobilephones up til about 1998. This ones only about 150 pages... but I'm not gonna scan this one either
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BobaFett
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Weird and funny title, but do get the point of it. However, The beauty and the beast met each other in /// fones imho. The inner beauty made thfse fones to forget me the usually mentioned look and design. Its not ugly, more different then other fones. The swedish wonder looked what a fone means, without extravagant design. Solid, shy and conservative shape filled with brilliant features.
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happycheesecake
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As promised, here's my A2628 (with my T39m).
The casing shows A2618 but A2628s / A2618s share the same casing.. |
BobaFett
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Thx. The weird is the placing of the battery in a2618 and 28. Its one of /// where the battery cover is separeted from the battery. I do like if the battery is the cover itself. The other weird is the backlight. After t28, r320 etc i was dissapointed not to see the green-blue light on it. Features are very good, keypad aswell.
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bart
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indeed backlight was a disapointment. and the phone was maby abit to big. thats why most people didn't buy it. and ofcourse the big antenna compaired to the nokia 3210
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BobaFett
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The aerial was ok and the size too imo. As i remember a2628 support cli pix aswell.
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happycheesecake
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On 2004-08-07 22:19:25, bobafett wrote:
Thx. The weird is the placing of the battery in a2618 and 28. Its one of /// where the battery cover is separeted from the battery. I do like if the battery is the cover itself. |
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Strange that there's room to put a larger battery in the back of the A26xx series... Wonder why Ericsson didn't do it...
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BobaFett
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I wonder whos idea was to use that battery design. Never before and after choose /// this way again, think it was a failure and they recognized it aswell.
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happycheesecake
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My guess is that the A28xx series was an attempt by Ericsson to make an entry-level phone with replacable casings... And yes, I've got some other casings for the phone, including a turtle-shell design... You're never seen an Ericsson like it! |
floke
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@bobafett :The title "The Ugly Duckling" does not refer to the design of the mobile phones but to mobile phone business within Ericsson. Its described why in the book and perhaps not so easy to explain but: Mobilephone production was not seen as core business. Fixed and mobile telephony systems were. The Ericsson top management wanted to close down the mobile phone business many times but eventually they didn't, luckily for us
Mobile phones was seen as a strange business area within Ericsson and didn't "fit in" but turned out to be a huge success in spite of everything. It's just like the story were the ugly duckling grew up to become a proud and beautiful swan.
Nice
A pic from the book:
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BobaFett
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Nice and logical point of view. Unfortunately the swedish swan turned to history.
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wapt
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Boba, the design of separated battery from cover on A2618 might be helpful for cost reduction. Personally think most the current manufactures have turned to this way.
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BobaFett
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Yes, u are right. But weird that /// returned to the classical way after it. They reduced costs at r320 with painting the keypad, same on t28.
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wapt
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I just like the classical design. On the other hand, it is also resonable for SE to change the design as battery technollogy improves.
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