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mustafabay
Joined: Sep 27, 2004
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I guess this year is when SE starts HSDPA but next year is when it will really cover the portfolio. Not having HSDPA in your only smartphone is a little weird. Scrapping all smartphones including the non touchscreen ones is a weird move. Although looking at the current lineup, maybe just maybe, se realised it wasn't keeping the pressure where it used to make reall gains. So maybe sofia will come faster seeing the W880 can't do it all alone.
Scrapping the bravia branding is fine with me. I'd guess it would be blended in with the Walkman range.
I don't mind branding but idecission is the biggest problem. SE can't quite decide what to do with walkman, its taking over the lineup but they obviousely aren't super comfortable with that. Scrapping generic devices is ok if the generic device lack all of One function. Scrapping the colors for the generic device isn't always a good idea. The black and green slider should be another W580 color option.
The problem is with the walkman all phones have the potential, you just have to bundle a big card and headphones, brand the phone and your done. But Sony Ericsson obviousely doesn't want to be just about walkmans. The problem is how many Cybershots can you market?
Boy I can see tons of SE employees and executives losing many hours of sleep trying to figure out how to get out of the mess they're in. You decide on a line up where a lot of platforms get reused, but then you decide to not go with twins so how do you scrap all you devices without looking like you only sell walkmans. A small solution would be some cybershots in other formfactors and to stop calling every phone a walkman.
I'm tired and I feel like I was writing in circles I hope somebody can figure out what I'm saying. Apart from I want a K550 with 3g  Bed time:)
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goldenface
Joined: Dec 17, 2003
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From: Liverpool City Centre
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On 2007-04-22 10:37:47, ajack wrote:
2. Elena will be available at the end of the year only. Now, SE is focusing on getting the current UIQ3 phones working better and this will benefit current users and Elena when it comes out.
3. All other UIQ phones the R&D have been working on have all been scrapped. Even the non-touch screen UIQ3 phone. I was told they scrapped a few prototype designs since the W950 came out until Elena.
5. SE will be cutting down the number of phone it will release this year. They have decided to consolidate the models instead of offering many derivatives of the same "base" design. What this means is that, we will still see a lot of phones from SE this year, just not as many as SE had originally planned.
May be this isn't such a bad thing. It might mean there are more features in fewer models.
After all, who really wants 9 different models all differentiated by one or two features? Plus there is really no need to bring out so many mid-tier smartphones. Its still such a small overall percentage of volume for SE, they would be sprinkling many phones on a small percentage of consumers.
It would be nice to get back a policy of making a few phones that are crammed with top-end features. Just throw HSDPA and  3.0 in Elena and most people will be satisfied. 
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shaliron
Joined: Jan 15, 2006
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From: Melbourne, Australia
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On 2007-04-22 10:37:47, ajack wrote:
Don't know if this is news to those on this thread but this is what I heard from my contact.
1. The only UIQ phone announced this year will be Elena. The name P700 is not finalized yet. Lizzy was scrapped because between Elena and Lizzy, the only difference is the camera, one has it, the other doesn't.
2. Elena will be available at the end of the year only. Now, SE is focusing on getting the current UIQ3 phones working better and this will benefit current users and Elena when it comes out.
3. All other UIQ phones the R&D have been working on have all been scrapped. Even the non-touch screen UIQ3 phone. I was told they scrapped a few prototype designs since the W950 came out until Elena.
4. Bravia line of phone will be merged with an existing line of phones and will not come out separately like the Walkman range.
5. SE will be cutting down the number of phone it will release this year. They have decided to consolidate the models instead of offering many derivatives of the same "base" design. What this means is that, we will still see a lot of phones from SE this year, just not as many as SE had originally planned.
I will not be answering any questions, so don't be offended if you ask!
Makes perfect sense. I wasn't surprised to read that. All to be updated.
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cristiano
Joined: Feb 15, 2006
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what should we exsept  to present mobile for this year?? normal mobile with 5mp only?
non great one
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dancingfate
Joined: Sep 25, 2004
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From: Jakarta, Indonesia
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If the UIQ phone to be announced this year is only Elena, how about M610? That's a weird decision if M610 is for next year.
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JK
Joined: Feb 24, 2005
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From: S. Africa - JOZI
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I noticed that Nokios are quite expensive and they pushing the prices up regardless. Why doesnt do it???
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goldenface
Joined: Dec 17, 2003
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On 2007-04-23 16:15:25, 786KBR wrote:
I noticed that Nokios are quite expensive and they pushing the prices up regardless. Why doesnt do it???
Nokia still has quite a low Average Selling price - below 100EUR I believe. average selling price is I think 134EUR.
Looking the above statement from Ajack I understand the will be releasing lots of low end phones to grow market share from now on and not so many mid-tier and high-end phones. This is a good strategy as I would imagine phones like Elena are expensive to develop.
I only hope the phones that do appear are jam packed with good solid features.
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Xajel
Joined: Jun 18, 2004
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From: Bahrain
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Whenever the want to release, just make the announcemet ASAP, at least we will know when and what to choose rather than jumping from phone to phone !!
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c96sthl
Joined: Mar 31, 2002
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why no one discuss on the black slider posted in another popular SE fan website hehehe maybe the look of it remind you of W580 that you all not interested? |
xumdeo
Joined: Dec 14, 2006
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On 2007-04-24 02:45:01, c96sthl wrote:
why no one discuss on the black slider posted in another popular SE fan website hehehe maybe the look of it remind you of W580 that you all not interested?
actually we've talked about that ages ago
and decided that it's a non-walkman version of w580
we pointed out that the d-pad did not look like a scroll wheel |
c96sthl
Joined: Mar 31, 2002
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I guess you mean something which later someone pointed out could be picture of K800 ... haha the thread is growing so huge that I can't remember much of the previous stuff.
sometimes when a new leaked picture come out...the thread will grow in hyper space till you can't catch up.
I wonder the administrator have a limit on msg to be available in one thread.
This thread can easily hit the limit if it is set at 10k |
xumdeo
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no it's on a separate thread
i know which black slider ur talking about
thre's only one black slider on se-nse and youtube
we're not talking about the black candybar 5mp phone with green rim around the camera, that was history |
JC08
Joined: Jan 07, 2007
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From: Vanderbijlpark, South Africa
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Any news on shinobu? |
c96sthl
Joined: Mar 31, 2002
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of course not that one with the ring around the keypad.
but that one looks real....i think it will be coming soon in 8th May...like it or not.
if its not...maybe it will be coming out next time. |
batesie
Joined: Feb 13, 2004
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From: London, UK
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still waiting for a confirmed high spec walkman phone 
or even the next swivel phone... S700>>>W900>>>????
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