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to MEGALOS : I don't see the Sendo Z100, sorry. (I think i have see some proto. last year at the cebit, but don't remember exactly). I'll look in the lot of documentation, i take back !


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Posted: 2002-03-19 11:41:00
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I belive 7210 is just a desperat atempt from Nokia to catch up with T68
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Posted: 2002-03-19 14:49:00
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Raptor, I wouldn't believe a phone can be developped in one year only. So, I'm not sure we can call this an attempt to catch up anything. SE, Nokia, Siemens, Motorola, etc certainly had different product strategies with different timeframes, that's it. Ericsson launched a small color screen device at about the same time as Trium and after a Taiwanese manufacturer, and before the ones mentionned previously. But, before colored wireless services are actually launched (e.g. MMS), SE phone is much rather a phone with a color user-interface (Siemens had one years ago). Now, on other features such as triple band, I agree with you this is finally a good move

Besides this, what is there to "catch-up"? market share or what? For the 1st one, the catch-up is more on SE side, right? SE has lost market share in 2001 and is now behind Siemens and even Samsung with less than 5%. See for instance: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20020312/bs_nf/16715
And the fact that new SE models showed up might increase this gap, and SE might unfortunately loose even more market share this year. Simply because other Ericsson phones are admittedly not selling well, SE can't meet the demand for their popular T68, and this T68 is a high-end product, not low-end.
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Posted: 2002-03-19 15:38:00
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T65 has been a real dog for Ericsson. While the T39 and T68 have just flown off the shelves here in the UK - they disappear from stock as soon as places get them in - T65 just has not sold at all, because it _should_ be competing against the 3xxx series, as a mainstream GPRS competitor, but at £230 compared to £100 for a 3330, amuch more established brand in the low-end market, it can't compete - particularly as the Motorola T191 is now the best selling non-Nokia pre-pay phone in the UK, simply because they can compete on price. If they can ship Z700 at their quoted price of around €300-350, then they might stand a chance of taking back some market share.
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Posted: 2002-03-19 18:23:00
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