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On 2008-09-18 10:48:47, goldenface wrote:
According to this article,
Sony Ericsson is likely to join the OHA
"Google's consortium of Android partners, the Open Handset Alliance, has stayed stable at 34 companies for months, but Espelien expects it to grow. He says four of the five largest handset makers will make Android phones--a hint that Sony Ericsson has signed on or soon will. Three of the five--LG, Motorola and Samsung--are already OHA members. Nokia, the world's largest phone manufacturer, which announced in June that it would purchase Symbian, probably won't join the Android movement, concedes Espelien. "
Nokia find themselves in quite a situation. Though they are in a leading position with S60 it seems they are about to face some serious challenges.
Already RIM has jumped to the number two spot ahead of Windows.
I guess it's good for SE to try out all these OSs. I have a feeling they'll end up settling on at least 2 of them. Why would they confuse their phones with too many OSs thereby losing focus?
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Posted: 2008-09-18 12:35:47
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Like Tigershark has said, they would be a bit silly to restrict themselves to one or two OS's.
There is so much competition right now that they do really have to try and appeal to as many potential end users as possible and not being the largest of the manufacturers its a good move, especially when you consider how small its smartphone market share actually is.
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Posted: 2008-09-18 12:49:00
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Next announcement is on 23-24 September. Next week!! Hope there will be something good...
http://semcblog.com/2008/09/17/next-announcement-new/
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Posted: 2008-09-18 13:08:36
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I don't know goldenface. I personally think that at this stage they don't really have the means to go with 3 or 4 OSs. They just need to consider where the money is and go there. I'm just trying to imagine thier phones running, for instance, Android, WM, Symbian and Linux. How do you begin to specialise when you're all over the show? Let's not forget their bad handling of UIQ.
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Posted: 2008-09-18 13:12:51
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May be this next announcement will give up some answers. Don't know what to expect really, other than the W705?
Its a two day event so lets hope they have a lot to show.
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Posted: 2008-09-18 14:05:56
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Muhammad-Oli Posts: > 500
I remember someone posting a comment here the other day about how Apple copied SE with the shake control feature in their iPod Nano... Well Samsung just announced a few music phones with SE Walkman phone copying features. From GSMArena:
The Samsung M3200 Beat s sports a number of music-oriented features beside the already mentioned dedicated music keys [...] a music player Shake control thanks to the built-in acccelerometer.
Samsung's alternative to Shake control is called Motion Play. It's a unique feature for the Samsung portfolio and a similar control has been implemented only in several Sony Ericsson Walkman phones. It allows you to play or pause music with a tap on the phone, mute the music by turning the phone face down, or change tracks by shaking it.
Again, much like the Walkmans, the Samsung Beat s offers mood-based track sorting so you can always tune your track to your current mood.
[...] And finally, in a last competing move against Walkmans, Samsung have equipped their handsets with a music recognition feature (like TrackID). It's the Shazam's 'Find Music' service. By recording and sending a tune to Shazam server, users can easily learn a track name and artist.
And to think that most people here called them all gimmicks when they were announced! The phone manufacturers (and Apple) obviously think it's worth copying!
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Posted: 2008-09-18 15:01:42
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Those features are very marketable and they obviously worked for SE. The W910 is still selling quite well in the UK over one year since its appearance. I love the TrackID feature and its about time they linked it to PlayNow.
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Posted: 2008-09-18 15:23:42
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Amazing, isn't it? TrackID called something else.
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Posted: 2008-09-18 15:24:20
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Nobody wants post the full pic of rika? Then I make it.
Thanks mizzle and xell. I love it.
http://blog.se-nse.net/2008/0[....]e-quiz-was-your-guess-correct/[ This Message was edited by: murderjon on 2008-09-18 20:24 ]
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Posted: 2008-09-18 21:20:07
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That's ...beautiful!
Sporty and classy at the same time!
I also love the metal finish.
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Posted: 2008-09-18 21:22:23
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