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KasaR
Joined: Apr 20, 2002
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A friend and i were talking about this the other day:
A lot of smaller companies are coming out onto the market making some pretty decent phones. But they charge a premium for their phones. I'm sure it wouldnt cost upwards of $500 to make/market a phone but many of them charge $1000. IF you were a small company wouldnt you sell the phone for $600 and get more customers and goodwill to your brand?
Another example of this is the P800. In australia it costs $1300, whereas the 7650 costs $900. If the P800 was cheaper it would gain a LOT more market as it could directly compete with Nokia. In a recent report Nokia had 57% of the converged devices (with 7650, 3650, 9210i) market while SE had 11% for the P800 only.
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alfaromeo777
Joined: Apr 15, 2003
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you cant compare the 7650 with a p800, its like comparing david and goliath... and whats this thing about SE being a small company... or did i just miss the point |
KasaR
Joined: Apr 20, 2002
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no i didnt mean SE is a small company....but it is a company that is losing market share at an alarming pace. why not make its phones cheaper for the consumer? |
Krubach
Joined: Dec 05, 2002
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If SE is accumulating losses (as reported in numerous papers...), why the heck would they risk greater losses?
Nokia can make those prices because their production is in much bigger numbers than SE, wich allows them to reduce the cost for each unit.
SE can just compete in terms of phones features not in phone prices.
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701
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Well se has to make cheaper phones thats 4sure but they r acting like 3-4 yrs ago when they were leaders.timer have changed and besides looks se phones r just the same..
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jalu
Joined: Oct 25, 2002
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It's the way of phones, I think. An innovation is made and phones look different, then a lot of very similar phones come out.
For example, the shift from the old Nokia 5110 design to the 3xxx series - look how many clones of that design they have made.
I do think that the  design is quite nice. Someone mentioned it was part of a trend that is mainly currently in Japan - a blocky kinda thing. You like it or you love it.
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Swag
Joined: Jun 21, 2002
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From: Oslo, Norway
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I personally prefer the blocky look than the over-styled Nokia's. They looks like a Picasso-picture.... 
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alfaromeo777
Joined: Apr 15, 2003
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i personally prefer the Sony Ericsson looks over the nokias, because what's simple is true, and what's true is beautiful, ullgh, i sound like some silly poet... hehe... I really dont think nokia phone looks good in any way, and i dont think they exaggerate style.. because their phones are plain ugly, except for some like the 7650, and the n gage |
baileynash
Joined: Dec 08, 2002
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From: Brisbane, Australia
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Sony Ericsson doesn't get much recognition here in Australia.... I think there are 2 people in my school with Sony Ericssons.... me and my mate.... T300 (me) T68i (him).
When ya talk about Sony Ericsson people diss them to shit house.... people think Nokia is better, without even trying the phones!
So Sony Ericsson NEED to release some good looking, nicely styled phones, not blocky brick looking pieces of crap!
I wouldn't even say the P800 was a nice looking phone.... quite the opposite.
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alfaromeo777
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well i guess aussies are more for style than function. |
701
Joined: Nov 26, 2002
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Dont thredjack!we were talking about small manufacturers and the 2nd poster didnt know whatta hell he was talking about:)so-small firm devices r expensive cuz of the production prices.they have2hire good professionists,spend money on research and programing,develop the device and manufacure it.huge effort!the prices show the strugles.and all this4what?to make 5k pieces and go bankrupt?no thanks.
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Posted: 2003-05-08 11:22
