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Anyone please confirm if K700 have stopped manuf. or not? |
kenx3000
Joined: Nov 02, 2004
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FGS. I'm moderating a thai SE webboard and seriously approx. 10 people sends me questions that is K700 have really stopped manufacturing. Rumors from one website went all over the place and no once could confirm from my source. One of my friends says yes it has and the other says no it hsan't. Its killing me right now.
I asked my source once again this question and 5 out of 10 people said yes and no. Only you guys here would know much more that those people because its a pretty much big issue because this model is still on the road in the market and I need confirmation of whether it has or not. Thnx! |
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FuricTrax
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I don't know much about this sort of stuff....
I'd be extremely surprised if they had stopped manufacturing it though!
They haven't even announced its predecessor yet and demand for the phone I would of thought would increase as it is offered free on many contracts! |
HjJ
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On 2005-01-02 10:09:14, kenx3000 wrote:
FGS. I'm moderating a thai SE webboard and seriously approx. 10 people sends me questions that is K700 have really stopped manufacturing. Rumors from one website went all over the place and no once could confirm from my source. One of my friends says yes it has and the other says no it hsan't. Its killing me right now.
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As far as anybody outside SE can tell, the K700i is doing great in the marketplace. There is no substitute for it from SE. Therefore it would make no sense at all for them to stop manufacturing the K700. The only reasons for a stop at this moment in time, would be a lack of compontents or severe quality problems in production. If this were the case, manufacturing would resume at fulll capacity as soon as the problems were resolved.
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jeko.uk
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impossible not yet |
sokoo
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K700 is under production, and there's no problem with it. It won't phase out in the next 6 month.
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I hope not . . . just improve on the firmware if ever  ! |
k700nut
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I wouldn't have thought its been discontinued yet,though the phone is quite old now.It's better brother(s700)is around now...So it shouldn't be too long until the k700 ceases production.
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sokoo
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SE product live is 1 year average. (T68 was much more, T300 was less.. etc..)
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govigov
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610 is still available. I guess that has to stop b4 k700 stops production.
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DeLa
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I don't understand why so many Esationians consider the S700 a 'sucessor' of the K700. It is a different kind of phone.
In todays market it is hard to distinguish straight model lines and I think that is how the manufacturers want it to be.
Therefore I don't think the production of one model will be stopped when the 'next' model is on cruise speed, because there is no such thing as a 'next' model. |
Debu
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I very much doubt that the k700i has been stopped. |
whizkidd
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No it hasn't. It would be stupid on SE's part if they were to do such a thing! The phone's growing in demand here in india.
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benrk
Joined: Aug 20, 2004
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It wouldn't surprise me if production of K700 had been stopped; I don't know to much about manufacturing & marketing procedures, but modern assembly lines should put out a few thousend handsets a day, so they might very well have the next half year in sales already in stock & reconfigure the production lines for another model, which should take a few weeks.
Contrary to that I was pretty much surprised when they stopped building T610 only a few months ago, I would have guessed SE stopped production like a year ago & sold off old stocks.
But I like the thought of a new marketing strategy like not anouncing new models & making people wait for half a year, but anouncing it to the public the same time as actually putting it on sale.
Maybe this rumor is an indication for that... |
bart
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it could be that they are just lowering down the number of K700 phones produced. cause they have a big stock left from earlyer productions. they calculated in T610 selling numbers. but they didn't even get 1/3 of those salles.
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marlonski
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Surely if that were true then  have made a big mistake allowing this to leak as it would put a lot of people off buying a model that has come to the end of it's production life already ?
I would want to know what they were replacing it with and wait for the newer model to come out. could end up having problems shifting k700 stock.
Even after launch it's replacement it would then make sense for the k700 to continue to be manufactured at ramped down production levels until they feel they have exhausted the demand as they have done with the T610 which according to this thread manufacturing has only recently been stopped.
It just seems too early for to have stopped K700 production.
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