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sapporobaby
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A PDA and Smartphone are generally considered two different devices. A Palm, or iPaq, or Clie' could be considered a PDA, while a P910 is a Smartphone. This is based on the functionality and OS of the device. A P910 has PDA functionality but has Symbian as its OS. My z800 has PDA functionality but has a basic phone OS, thus no smart phone.
*edited on a Mac of course. Mac: There is no substitute*
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runab0ut
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SE never did have dedicated PDA's in the market...
Sony did retire from the PDA business, its just the Clie line of handhelds. |
tranquil
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Yes, Ericsson made the MC216 and MC218 a few years back.
I had a 218 and was proud as anything of it.
Decided to sell it to a chap who was going to study in the US and never saw eigther him or my money again...
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sapporobaby
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Ericsson also had a PDA type phone. I do not recall the name of it but I had one.  It was blue and had a flip. It ran some OS that I can not recall.
*edited on a Mac of course. Mac: There is no substitute*
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Sammy_boy
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On 2005-07-02 21:33:37, sapporobaby wrote:
Ericsson also had a PDA type phone. I do not recall the name of it but I had one. It was blue and had a flip. It ran some OS that I can not recall.
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I think that was the R380 or something like that, I'm sure Bobafett would confirm that or not! 
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sapporobaby
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On 2005-07-02 22:02:51, Sammy_boy wrote:
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On 2005-07-02 21:33:37, sapporobaby wrote:
Ericsson also had a PDA type phone. I do not recall the name of it but I had one. It was blue and had a flip. It ran some OS that I can not recall.
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I think that was the R380 or something like that, I'm sure Bobafett would confirm that or not!
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R380 it was. It was not a bad device. It was the beginning to what later came. Funny how people continue to say that SE is not an innovator. I had one of the original Nokia Communicators. Model number 63. In no way did I like it more than my R380. I loved that phone.
*edited on a Mac of course. Mac: There is no substitute*
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BobaFett
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indeed, boba is always ready and happy when the master is mentioned.
r380 is a great one, how do u like this?
http://www.handy.ru/read/read212_546.html
http://www.i-symbian.com/foru[....]hp?action=viewarticle&artid=20
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max_wedge
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It looks then like unknowledgeable sales babble from freedominput...
No doubt they meant the clie; that Sony Ericsson have diverted all efforts from pda development to smartphones...
not that  ever made a pda...  |
BobaFett
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One more thing. I wouldnt call p9 a 'smart' fone. To set sms delivery report manually is a bad joke for me...
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max_wedge
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Don't worry, putting up with a vodafone branded K700 that can't use mp3 ringtones is much the same, but harder to cop because it's self inflicted
I still don't know if the $200 saving (for a branded handset) was worthwile or not...
Or how 'bout a T9 dictionary that suggests irrelevant ten letter words but can't find the three letter combo you need!
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scotsboyuk
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I see confusion once more reigns over a rumour. There is some important information to be posted about SE on SE-NSE at some point. Some have speculated that this may have something to do with this particular rumour.
All I can tell you for now is that as far as I am aware SE have no plans to stop producing smartphones.
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mustafabay
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@scotsboyuk Thanks for the info. Now I can breath again.
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Residentevil
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They probably meant that Sony has withdrawn it's Clie PDA from select markets.
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bart
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after the withdraw from sony, they could've decided that SE should continue a clie line or a new line of there own. so in a way it can be true. SE won't continue the clie line from sony.
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DeLa
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It's a bit weird because it seems that classic pda's with gsm-functionality in them will be the winners. HP and Qtek with MS Mobile are gaining a lot of ground in the market of people that actually buy these things (it-people for the executives). Those things are the iPods of office applications: they hold a portable copy of their Outlook with full functionality and now that they can make calls with it too I think the P910's and communicators will have a hard time keeping up. We can bark at MS Mobile but it looks familiar and that advantage is hard to beat outside the techies world.
The "p1000"'d better have it all on board if they want to sell beyond the Esato crowd. |
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