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Sony Ericsson W960i Discussion |
bobbie
Joined: Sep 12, 2007
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Ericsson, Swedish co-owner (50%) of SonyEricsson announced today that they are doing less well on the market and the stock rate was down about 24-25% this morning in Sweden (about 10B Euro).
Yeasterday they announced the 50% selling of the UIQ to Motorola. I believe this is just another sale for keeping the cash flow balance and shows as well that the strategy for UIQ failed from SonyEricsson as the UIQ was bought just about 1 year ago.
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goldenface
Joined: Dec 17, 2003
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From: Liverpool City Centre
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Mobilebee now has an estimated release date for this phone for early November.  Hopefully it will be with us before Christmas.
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maciekish
Joined: Mar 10, 2003
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inwarehouse.se sent me a confirmation email 3 days ago about my order that states "2007-11-26". Their site still says 3rd December. I dont know which one is more recent but both dates are fortunately this year =) |
ljf881
Joined: Jun 10, 2004
Posts: 105
From: Sweden
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On 2007-10-16 14:19:25, maciekish wrote:
inwarehouse.se sent me a confirmation email 3 days ago about my order that states "2007-11-26". Their site still says 3rd December. I dont know which one is more recent but both dates are fortunately this year =)
Inwarehouse is always quite optimistic about the release date of things. Just don't trust them
Seriously, will this phone even appear? In november SE will probably introduce phones that are more interesting with HSDPA and stuff. Unfortunately I think this one is too late and is already outdated. I like it, but probably wont buy it.
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ljf881
Joined: Jun 10, 2004
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From: Sweden
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On 2007-10-16 10:26:18, bobbie wrote:
Yeasterday they announced the 50% selling of the UIQ to Motorola. I believe this is just another sale for keeping the cash flow balance and shows as well that the strategy for UIQ failed from SonyEricsson as the UIQ was bought just about 1 year ago.
[ This Message was edited by: bobbie on 2007-10-16 09:27 ]
SE bought UIQ to keep the pace up in development. Already then they announced that they didn't want to be the only owner of UIQ. So this was only a logical step in the development of the company. |
Stormbringer
Joined: Oct 16, 2007
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Sorry, didn't read the whole topic, it took just took me hours to do the topic of PeterKay. I'll have some questions regarding the W960i, so maybe you could help me (I also posted this in PeterKay's topic)...
1) How about the battery life? How much can you use the phone when using the regular functions normally, but with 2 hours music listening a day?
2) I understand it doens't have an accelerometer (strange that the "cheapier" models have it), but is it possible to set the phone to horizontal mode manually? Seems a rather logical function since the other phones can do that, and they are not even touch sensitive
3) I see it doesn't have any protection of the camera-lens?
4) I don't see any photos taken with the W960i on PeterKay's site. Can anybody upload some? Or does anybody know whether there are some photos on the web already?
5) Peter says the display is very nice. But compared to the K850i on GSMarena it doesn't look good at all:
6) Less important: A comparison photo of the W960i and K750i would be great! 
Thank you very much in advance! |
_LAU_
Joined: Sep 10, 2004
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From: Zeta Reticuli Phones:.P1;.P910
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The W960 had a protective plastic glued on the screen.
Nobody can access the screen quality like that. |
Sartori2006
Joined: Aug 09, 2007
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From: UK
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On screen quality i would rather trust someone who has seen it first hand that a picture of two phones like that, impossible to assess quality from that as previous poster stated. |
Haiden88
Joined: Oct 17, 2007
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I spoke to a Vodafone representative yesterday and he confirmed that the W960i will ship December 9th (Sony Ericsson had informed Vodaone of this)- whether that includes all networks I do not know but at least we have a confirmed date now.
Can't wait for this phone!! |
alex
Joined: Jun 11, 2002
Posts: 156
From: Malaysia
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I guess you can't compare as K850i was meant for Cybershot and W960i was for Walkman. Definitely SE will make K850i outstanding and visible in terms of display whereas W960i will be the audio quality.
But I do observed that W960i in the picture seems to have a plastic cover it screen or rather the plastic screen protector not crystal clear type....
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maciekish
Joined: Mar 10, 2003
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On 2007-10-17 12:19:05, Haiden88 wrote:
I spoke to a Vodafone representative yesterday and he confirmed that the W960i will ship December 9th (Sony Ericsson had informed Vodaone of this)- whether that includes all networks I do not know but at least we have a confirmed date now.
Can't wait for this phone!!
Is that for a Vodafone custom/branded version? If so then the generic device should be available earlier.. |
rambo47
Joined: Jul 03, 2005
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From: Denville, NJ.
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On 2007-10-17 12:19:05, Haiden88 wrote:
I spoke to a Vodafone representative yesterday and he confirmed that the W960i will ship December 9th (Sony Ericsson had informed Vodaone of this)- whether that includes all networks I do not know but at least we have a confirmed date now.
Can't wait for this phone!!
December 9th ??!! WTF?! This thing was announced ages ago!
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Sartori2006
Joined: Aug 09, 2007
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From: UK
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Well, this has been stated on the SE site for some time now -
Expected launch: Dec , 07
At least in the UK anyway.
http://www.se-store.co.uk/ind[....]CC7-1422-10F9-44E10DE787D7C672
Companies always announce what the next big thing is a long time before it is released, always been the same, always will be. |
velman
Joined: Sep 24, 2002
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Just a simple question;
when you are writing an sms, how do you change words when you get several choices? It's easy and quick to change word on my w810. You just press the arrow down.
Is it as easy to do this at the W960i?
Velman
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Stormbringer
Joined: Oct 16, 2007
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And to go into that: How does that handwire recognition work? If I write something down, the system will recognize it en convert it into digital characters? And does this really work fluently? |
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