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How Much Longer Is Sony Ericsson Going to Be Around? |
jms2367
Joined: Jun 13, 2003
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From: The Philippines
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Hi MrJulius, if your talking about the Android 2.1 Eclair update on the X10 series, it is definitely very late. It just came out when the other Android phones are already at Android 2.1 long before the X10 series got it. The talk of the town nowadays is already on Android 2.2 Froyo or the newer not yet released Android 2.3 gingerbread. Hopefully, the SE Anzu with it's Gingerbread will break this non attention of SE to software development.
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dancingfate
Joined: Sep 25, 2004
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From: Jakarta, Indonesia
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Quoted from Mobile-Review:
Sony Ericsson X8 will quickly become the best selling Android handset from Sony Ericsson. An aggressive price of 175 coupled with a decent 3″ screen of 360 х 480 resolution will do the trick. On the other hand, Android fans will not be happy with slow updates and a different interface. The weird solution is interesting for SE fans and resembles an ordinary phone more. Traditionally, when sales go down Sony Ericsson does everything to decrease them even further. It sounds strange, but the facts point in that direction. X8 had all prerequisites for success, but the company made everything to avoid it. Details will be described in the review this week.
I agree with what Eldar said above in BOLD.
If only X8 (and X10 family) released with Eclair I'm sure it sales will be better.
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jms2367
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I agree with what Eldar said above in BOLD.
If only X8 (and X10 family) released with Eclair I'm sure it sales will be better.
+1. The X8 should had been released with Eclair out of the box instead of letting users wait for an update. |
mrjulius
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SE's UI is great! but late on Latest OS. hope they focus on the future not the past OS 
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Tsepz_GP
Joined: Dec 27, 2006
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From: Johannesburg, South Africa
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Indeed, i also agree with Eldar, the entire XPERIA Android family had/has all the hardware, and great software ideas, but SE realy let them down with the outdated Android OS versions and weirdly taking out multitouch  they are killing their own products.
X10 had the chance to be THEE Android phone of 2010, all the hardware is there, software is there but OS version 1.6 realy held all that back, SE better release Froyo as the X10 still has plenty under the hood.
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Bonovox
Joined: Apr 13, 2008
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The x8 is fantastic I love mine even it's fixed focus camera ain't half bad. By the way the screen res is 480x320 not 360x480 but I think it's better than the minis minus the camera & for once I have had no issues with it
[ This Message was edited by: Bonovox on 2010-11-12 15:57 ] Phone?? What phone?? |
NoroBiik
Joined: Dec 30, 2008
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On 2010-11-11 02:14:02, mrjulius wrote:
here, more people using nokia phone than se phones.
nokia's dominance in the Philippines could change in the blink of an eye. They're already losing market share in the low end market to dual sim phones(a killer product here where 95% are prepaid subs) from myphone&cherry mobile. Now cheap low midrange android phones from samsung,se,cherry mobile&lg have come out with just the c6 from nokia as a contender. the x8 debuted in Manila at just over $270 (unlocked)-SE had to respond to samsung or get run over. feature phone sales in the midrange will lose a big chunk of market share to android next year. Not giving up my w995 though:-)
SE has to claw its way back up and they know it. Not sure if Nokia realizes they're not top of the heap anymore in Asia.
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strauts
Joined: Feb 22, 2008
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From: latvia Dunalka
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and by the way, how can se sell more if sellers are not ofering se phone, i had seen in shops, of 60 phones half are nokia then a lot of lg, samsung, and others, and then about 8 are se:(, so this is all sellers fault! Isnt it.
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strauts
Joined: Feb 22, 2008
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From: latvia Dunalka
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hei, the androie, if al android will become more popular, and if se will not mess with updates, they could come back in top 5, and nokia vill fall, couse no android phones.
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jms2367
Joined: Jun 13, 2003
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From: The Philippines
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A bit biased but a good read nonetheless on SE's strategy.
Sony Ericsson in 2011, or Strategy Failure?! (by Eldar)
It also tlaks on Nokia's drastic decline in it's Market share. |
carkitter
Joined: Apr 29, 2005
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I don't often agree with Eldar, but I do agree with his comments on  in that post.
Symbian phones are not making headway against iOS and Android competitors.
are behind on WP7 and it's WM phones are dead in the water.
has ruined it's Android reputation by being too slow with OS updates.
Feature phones are a shrinking market.
I cannot see making headway from here. All manufacturers bar Apple are under pressure because of the pace of change in the smartphone market. Worse, all manufacturers are now making basically the same 4" tablet phone with 1GHz processor and 5-8 Mp camera so market differentiation for Android and WP7 models is becoming confused. The only winners in these categories are HTC and Samsung who have the flexibility to bang out new models at the speed of light, something a glacial will never be able to compete with. Sony Ericsson's traditional strengths - styling and UI - have been taken out of play as the minimalist tablet form factor with a shared OS takes over.
I read comments attributed to the CEO of SE France saying that won't be entering the tablet market. That's madness. I think that is the only market it could really compete well in. The tablet market does not move as fast as the smartphone market and has only 1 sucessful player and a whole lot of wannabee's whose products are a mishmash of copied ideas done badly. There definately is room for another well thought-out tablet.
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Hobbs
Joined: Oct 07, 2006
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SE must stay out of the tablet business and just focus all their attention on their phones.Only once they have establish themselves back in the phone arena then concentrate elsewhere.
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NoroBiik
Joined: Dec 30, 2008
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On 2010-11-21 11:53:31, Hobbs wrote:
SE must stay out of the tablet business and just focus all their attention on their phones.Only once they have establish themselves back in the phone arena then concentrate elsewhere.
This is how it works for Apple. People get the iPod Touch, get drawn in then get the iPhone or iPad. Or - they get the iPad first , like the user experience then get the iPhone or a Mac. There is one appstore for all of Apple's mobile devices and when Leopard comes (the newest Mac OSX) the Macs will have an appstore too.
It's not about just phones anymore.
(jojosiscar - thanks for the link to Eldar's article. great read)
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fairen
Joined: Aug 13, 2009
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I would say.. A while
SE has made quite a number of phones which really made it to the top, good music phones and good camera phones and that's mostly what matters to a lot of people. |
strauts
Joined: Feb 22, 2008
Posts: 180
From: latvia Dunalka
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jap, i think SE should make al phones with autofocus on cameras, and a flash light,
they are maded many phones with af and fl, good screen, and then suddenly a lot of weak phones with out any extra!?! So there are no chose, moust of people will take a nokia, cause the screen a little bit biger, camera little bit better!
But not me, i'll always take SE, no matters what!
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Posted: 2010-11-12 16:07
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