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Sony Ericsson: why we chose Windows |
PeterKay
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Why has Sony Ericsson 'succumbed' to Microsoft? The way the company's CTO Mats Lindoff explained it to us, is that you can't crack the US market without it. He was giving El Reg a glimpse into the future.
"We need products in all categories, maybe not in the ultra-low segment, but a broad portfolio. Windows Mobile in the US and in Nordic countries is the IT manager's choice."
Lindoff doesn't expect the Windows-powered Xperia to be a volume seller. Sony Ericsson is going for the "techie" niche which wants high performance and is willing to meet a high price to get it.
"It's not that UIQ can't deliver," Lindoff said. SE has put UIQ, a graphical user interface built on the Symbian OS, into two excellent new handsets, in the mid-range for the first time. The only serious disappointment with the G700 and G900 is that we won't be able to get hold of them until the end of the summer. They're as slim as the mid-range favourites like the K800i that they replace, but much more powerful – with touchscreens and (in the case of the G900) Wi-Fi.
Sony Ericsson stopped making CDMA handsets three years ago, but Lindoff doesn't think this will handicap its latest parry into North America, where 50 per cent of the market now uses CDMA. The Xperia X1 is GSM/W-CDMA. SE's parent company Ericsson is showing LTE at 25Mbits/s, Lindoff pointed out - and is happy to wait.
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The main strategic bet is on DLNA, or the Digital Living Network Alliance, which is producing specifications for home media interoperability, built on UPnP.
Phones will be able to act as a universal remote control and sling photos around the house next year, Lindoff predicted.
He said much of his work involved pulling R&D out of parent Sony into the handset division, and trying to make it smaller and less power-intensive on the way. An example is the C902 Cybershot imaging phone, which began life as a Sony research project.
Two minor innovations which got a lot of excitement here in Barcelona are Tap To Focus (you obviously need a touchscreen phone like the new UIQ models) and face detection - that automatically finds a face in an image and focuses on it.
How well does it works for eyepatch-wearing pirates? We have no idea. But Tap To Focus is so obvious in retrospect, you wonder why nobody thought of it before.
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BobaFett
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sp, lets hope that se will be welcome in the u.s. market with windows... but os is just one segment in a strategy, next to it service, support and design also play an important role
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goldenface
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Its a good move for them, no matter what. It doesn't make sense to restrict themselves to certain OS's.
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PeterKay
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best way is to keep all options open, great move i think.
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SE shuld now make a head way in the US.... |
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On 2008-02-14 16:54:57, BobaFett wrote:
sp, lets hope that se will be welcome in the u.s. market with windows... but os is just one segment in a strategy, next to it service, support and design also play an important role
that's why X1 has four bands of HSDPA |
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there is also another question, another side of the story. without that windows support, se would have had no chance for a succeful marketshare in the u.s.?
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Will it live up to the iphone? It does all the iphone does and maybe even more. SE should have enough experience in UI to make it work easy. Windows mobile is not very user friendly though, and it has no fun factor whatsoever.
Maybe they should try Android.
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The G900 would be what I've always wanted if it had HSDPA. Its so bad that it doesnt.  |
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That's right, no HSDPA, no go
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I hope SE would make up at least 60% of their A200/UIQ UI to be ported in X1. User Interface is one of SE's best and UI comprises most of the user experience aspects of a phone imo 
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agree 100% razec.
I also agree it'd be nice if G series (atleast g900) had 3G but I'm still very impressed with the formfactor. I'll happily wait for the next g series if it has hsdpa.
As for windows not being fun? Who said that?  I find it the most flexible and customisable and therefore the most fun phone UI available.
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On 2008-02-15 05:32:39, max_wedge wrote:
agree 100% razec.
I'll happily wait for the next g series if it has 3G.
I believe it's Beibei and the 2008 Flagship cybershot  phone. i suspect the two will use UIQ 3.2 given the fact that K850 already used HSDPA and it is a must that it's update or successor should as well have it + WiFi too 
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I expect you are right. I must admit I like the G series, it'll be hard to decide if X1 will be enough to tempt me away from SE UI, or whether G series touchscreen is enough to pursuade me I don't need the X1!
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i am quite convinced since i have used Windows mobile in the past, with a QVGA res, it won't be enough to temp me away from SE UI, but with bigger res, only time will tell.......
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