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A drop for a company is a good thing in some cases. Riding the high horse in the charts being mister big resulted in the company releasing a lot of good phones mixed in with the bad. If you saw through the bad(like I) and got the good you were happy. Otherwise yeah. So now that their profits have lowered and sales went down by 50% they might see through this that their products just dont plainly cut it anymore and they need to release phones with 5MP and all the fancy stuff. It will surely get repetitive and the onlything that differs is design but hell other companies have been doing it longer then them and its not going to hurt anyone. But hell where i am the only nokias you see around here are maybe a couple of the first generation expressmusic and a couple of the low ends. Otherwise every has an SE. Even cab drivers.
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Posted: 2009-03-20 17:26:06
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This is not really surprising. Their lack of proper support and decent updates makes it so that many will stray away and go to another brand; Apple, Nokia for example provide a steady stream of updates to their phones which introduce new features along with fixing bugs. SE should have done the same but they prefer to stop making updates for most phones after they hit the market for about 6-12 months whilst the competition still fixes and updates phones out much longer (N95 comes to mind).
We all know with cross flashing in mind that it is not impossible to give newer features to older phones, SE simply does not do it. Why doesn't the P1i gets the upgrade to the newer UIQ that runs on the G series? Why don't they provide smile shutter support to older Cybershot phones? Why don't they give us Flash Lite on phones that can support it? Why don't they provide this extra bit of service and customer care to us? It's a real pity to see how their throw away their loyal users for some extra quick sales, it is clearly biting them in the butt now.
My new new phone will also not be a Sony Ericsson, especially with my latest support experiences where they ask me for more details which I provide to then let me wait 2 weeks to receive a default answer that clearly showed they did not read a single of what I wrote to them nor investigated the details I've sent them, which they requested. This kind of "services" will cost them customers. I'm one of those people that gets asked by my friends and family what to buy next, and whilst I used to advice SE I will not advice SE any more, I'm sure I'm not alone.
Also the total decline and saturation of the phone market has something to do with SE losing almost half of it sales, but it's not a major part. Too bad for SE they used to be pioneers and have decent service and support, but today it's all about making a quick sale and then forgetting the customer.
Just my 2 pence.
[ This Message was edited by: blerk on 2009-03-20 16:50 ]
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Posted: 2009-03-20 17:49:00
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They are a massive company, they'll live. It's just the credit crunch, again
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Posted: 2009-03-20 18:02:54
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Things cant be that bad. I noticed the C905 in the contract charts on the no.1 slot. But that may have been before everyone took it back realising its another bug riddled phone :-S
[ This Message was edited by: Bonovox on 2009-03-20 17:08 ]
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Posted: 2009-03-20 18:06:00
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with phones like C905 what do you expect ....
i hope that future models will be more reliable
[ This Message was edited by: Radu_91 on 2009-03-20 17:12 ]
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Posted: 2009-03-20 18:06:47
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On 2009-03-20 16:34:16, Mizzle wrote:
I find it funny.
Yeah,me too
Another nail in the coffin. Lets see how many more will take to close it for good
Ericsson had enough for a while now and, for a change, Sony's legs are 'giving in' too - so, no more help from them either. I think, now is only a matter of time before the inevitable happens. 2010 3Q is my guess
Let's hear other opinions and see who is the closest when it happens
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Posted: 2009-03-23 18:56:22
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On 2009-03-23 18:56:22, mario2004 wrote:
On 2009-03-20 16:34:16, Mizzle wrote:
I find it funny.
... 2010 3Q is my guess
Let's hear other opinions and see who is the closest when it happens
Your guess is pretty realistic, if you ask me. If I were to guess i'd say Q2, 2010
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Posted: 2009-03-23 19:35:19
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3Q 2009 IDOU without any bugs. We will see then
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Posted: 2009-03-23 19:46:45
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Not for some time yet.
On balance, despite the last three quarters, SE has still made more money than it has lost so the balance sheet overall is still healthy.
So those waiting to dance on the grave will have a long wait yet.
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Posted: 2009-03-23 20:12:37
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The knight in shining
8mp armor, w995, cometh...
[ This Message was edited by: gola on 2009-03-23 20:02 ]
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Posted: 2009-03-23 21:00:06
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