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signatory
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all large news sites in Sweden today publish an article from TT (like a wire, a la Reuters.. AFP) where they claim the Z500 is also for the Nordic market. TT attended the pressconference in Stockholm.
This is wrong I would think. considering SE press release only mention USA. But...
However the TT article make a note of the fact that the Nordic/Baltic largest phone-company TeliaSonera will introduce EDGE as a "poor man's broadband". Beginning with Finland, Sweden and the rest of the north + baltic over time. The reason for doing this is the high cost of covering the area with 3G equipment.
(btw, Telia Sonera open up its 3G net in Sweden on Thursday)
so. we're getting the best of both worlds over here it seems.
ps. http://www.sonyericsson.com/product/z500/
VERY nice flash demo of the phone.
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JiggyJaggy
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Maybe i didnt see it on the features page but am i right in saying this doent have Bluetooth?
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masseur
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its not listed on the connectivity page, just USB and serial cable
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JiggyJaggy
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Are  going backwards or something!!!! Crazy idiots...how can they leave out  Argh!!! 
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bart
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Z500= midlevel phone.
so its actually an E700 but SE style. and i'm sure it will be availeble here 2. just like the T226.
and yes its sad that it doesn't have bluetooth
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abudinsz
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If they really don't have bluetooth its because the american market simply does not yet have the hots for it. I don't remember where I read this (maybe here on Esato) that because of the subsidies the operators simply don't want to pay for any extra stuff.
Now because of all the rednecks out there using push-to-talk they put that feature in instead of bluetooth. It really doesn't bother me because I don't like clamshell phones anyway.... the s700 and k700 are a much sweeter deal! |
signatory
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http://www.suntimes.com/output/business/cst-fin-blue09.html
"Sixty-six percent of Bluetooth products are sold in Europe and 24 percent are sold in Asia. The United States is a distant third with 10 percent of the market, said Mike McCamon, executive director of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, an industry org-anization"
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slamEVIL
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@bart said it! i think the thing that set this phone apart is the quich share abilities, the external display, and hopefully, customizable themes. this whole PoC thing, which will be new in Europe and sell alot of phones there, isn't going to make a difference for over here. we've had poc for years now and the cheapest phones seem to have it now-a-days and it is so damn annoying. the true cellphone/gaddget lover doesn't care about PoC.
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DragonEye
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no flash....
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dj_wolfinstein
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well this Z-500 does look better than Z200 but Nah!I guess looks wise from the interior point of veiw Z 600 is better...BTW is this phone an upgrade of Z 600, I mean has my Z600 been outdated..by this cross breed of Z200-Z600..Lol...
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mmsman
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umm well yeah they could do it like they did with t226 but eldar said that a much nicer international version will come soon, lol |
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@masseur
i think the inside of the phone is ok, but the exterior is very nice. However on the exterior picture that was supplied looks very fake.....the outside screen is blatantly done on photoshop, the inside screen is tiny, and if you look there is a video play/record icon.
all a bit suspicious. i dont like the se phone.
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kasei
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Well personally dont care if the phone works over 850mhz because in my country the phones works over 1900 mhz, anyway the phone looks nice
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tigger2528
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Just saw the New z500 and now I'm torn between this on and the z600 I like them both, but there are somethings that one has that the other doesn't. Like bluetooth. The z600 does while that z500 does not. The z500 plays Mp3 and has a 4x zoom while the z600 does not. The sceen looks bigger on the z600 compared to the z500 and at the SE website it says that the sceen is 65,536 color STN not a TFT sceen like the z600. I don't really know if this is a good thing or not. Could someone please let me know what is the differnes between the two. |
Felippe_RO
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I think that Z600 is nicer than Z500. But I'd like very much to have EDGE technology into my Z600... |
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