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P800 in first quarter of 2003 |
Ally
Joined: Nov 01, 2001
Posts: 119
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I have talked to SE Customer Service and to a guy who has definitely more knowledge than the regular customer service represantatives and found out that it is considered to be marketed in the first quarter of next year, but with a lot of surprises which would justify the long waiting, and one of them will be that it will have a 32MB Memory Stick Duo instead of 16MB which was shown during CEBIT Eurasia Istanbul and some more surprises....
By the way the info I had before and posted here about normal Memory Sticks working with P800 was wrong, sorry about that, the new info is that P800 works only with MSDuo, but MSDuo can be used with an adapter to work in the other Sony products which use Memory Stick! |
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DmX
Joined: Aug 31, 2002
Posts: 335
From: Middle East
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i dont think that it will be realesed in the 1st Q of 2003
if it was true they would have said it in the SE website!!!
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Starter
Joined: Aug 12, 2002
Posts: 13
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What a ridiculous idea! I would settle for having a P800 with a 8mb MS Duo NOW rather than wait till Jan 2003 for a P800 that comes with a 32mb Duo...
If your info is correct theres got to be a better reason for the delay you are alleging! |
faca
Joined: Jul 11, 2002
Posts: 192
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@DmX: The SE website is really not the place where you would find such information. SE seems very reluctant in publishing information which sound bad for them. Remember, the production of the Z700 model has been misteriously cancelled a long time ago and there is still no word about it on SE's site. They just decided to remove all info about the announced phone from the site and hope no one would remember that it was there in the first place. No press-release, no nothing... How pathetic...
@Starter: The 32MB MSDuo is not the reason for the delay, Ally never said that. The reason is SE's incompetence in producing a sophisticated piece of device like the P800. The phone's SW is very unstable and seems to be crashing all the time and SE doesn't seem to be able to fix it. I thought that Sony's and Ericsson's experience would be really helpful for the success of SE, but that is obviously not the case. No wonder Ericsson wants out...
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dwin_888
Joined: Sep 06, 2002
Posts: 131
From: Amanpulo! :D Pinas!
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anyone here knws hw much the ms duo would cost?  hope it isnt as expensive as the old ms... |
Rashkae
Joined: Jun 03, 2002
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Faca:
You're full of crap. 
SE is not developing the UI; that's Symbian 7.0, a.k.a Quartz.
My cousin is one of the early testers of the P800 At first, the software was unstable (to be expected), but he's upgraded it. So far, all is stable and he's happy with it. It seems the main reason SE is delaying it now is Sony's insitance on using the MSDuo, and ramping up the production in france. |
kikko79
Joined: Sep 13, 2002
Posts: 7
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well if your cousin is involved, why don't you tell us when the phone is ready??? and what about Italy? when it will be here? |
faca
Joined: Jul 11, 2002
Posts: 192
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Actually, Symbian 7.0 is just the base OS. The UI used in P800 is called UIQ (not Quartz - that's the name of an older version). The problem is, you can't just take the OS and the UI and install it on every possible device out there. You have to modify it a little to be able to install it on a different device. And, SE has to make its own special hardware interfaces (e.g. MSDuo slot) and additional software (e.g. MP3 and the video player). That seems to be causing them A LOT of problems... Otherwise, the P800 would be out by now.
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cadcad
Joined: Mar 01, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: Lebanon
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anyway who ever cared for what u say! nobody... and thanks for the fun ur creating in our forums i do always laugh at u when u just blow ur terrible ideas  |
lmi
Joined: Sep 08, 2002
Posts: 71
From: Portugal
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you ruined your position faca
In your last post you confirm that everything you say is a complete supposition! "That seems to be causing them"  |
andrew99
Joined: Nov 29, 2001
Posts: 254
From: london
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Faca has a point, the P800 looks like being late, and a few of the people in this forum who have played with beta versions had them crash.
But this is hardly unexpected, just a little disappointing. I'm sure when we finally get the thing, all will be forgiven... except by faca... because he's not getting one of course.
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faca
Joined: Jul 11, 2002
Posts: 192
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| you ruined your position faca
In your last post you confirm that everything you say is a complete supposition! "That seems to be causing them"
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Huh? You've lost me...
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decoy7
Joined: Feb 06, 2002
Posts: > 500
From: NW London
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SonyEricsson P800 slips to 2003?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/27141.html
http://www.mobicity.com/index.php?page=mbmag_article&id=2514
BBBold on T-Mobile UK |
celios
Joined: Jul 19, 2002
Posts: 89
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I think  will understand very well that as 3G networks start appearing in early 2003, they will have a hard job selling a very expensive 2/2.5G phone...
With a bit of luck Europe will get it before Christmas, releasing it after Christmas would be suicidal (think how many people would have the P800 on their Christmas wishlist, if it's not around they'll get something else instead).
I think that they have known about these delays for a few months and the story about Ericsson getting cold feet was a direct result of the screw up with the P800. Why they keep tellinging people like Expansys and Carphone Warehouse that it will be out in a few weeks is beyond me, but they do seem to hate giving any negative info. The website and the MobilityWorld developer forums (when they were still running) never contained the merest sniff of a delay,. |
Snilleblixt
Joined: Jul 30, 2002
Posts: 60
From: Singapore
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That's right. It all starts to make sense now as we were all surprised at the criticism Ericsson published a few weeks ago. Obviously it has something to do with the delay in thet P800.
If they are unable to deliver before year's end, I'm afraid they might as well cancel it as Nokia will launch their alternative Q1 2003.
Ericsson and SE must have put in about 2 years of planning on this device now and it must be frustrating of not being able to finalize it.
What I hate most is their silence... |
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Posted: 2002-09-16 14:43
