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Posted: 2008-07-18 17:45:52
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Smartphones are mostly developed in the UK. There are staff all over the world, about 12000 including contract staff. The biggest concentration are in Lund though.
[ This Message was edited by: Jimster71 on 2008-07-18 16:48 ]
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Posted: 2008-07-18 17:48:09
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Clearly this isn't a surprise to any of us
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Posted: 2008-07-18 19:11:44
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Indeed gola. We expected it since their second profit warning.
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Posted: 2008-07-18 20:17:45
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Hope it is their wake-up call...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 20:45:50
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I hope they realize what they are waking up to... They've been sleeping for 2+ years...
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Posted: 2008-07-18 21:52:49
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The cut downs will focus on research & development according to swedish news today.
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Posted: 2008-07-18 22:13:17
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While Sony Ericsson have been in a day dream, releasing the poorly received P990 and marginally better P1, Apple and others sneaked up and have been stealing their lunch money.
You may scoff at the iPhone but it shows there is a significant market of people wanting an advanced, touch screen phone ... which
had back in early 2003 - four years before Apple even had such a product!
Where once they were market leaders, now we see supposedly "high end" products canned (paris/beibei) and massive delays in the top end phone (X1).
Meanwhile at the low to mid-end we see yet another phone with a 2mp camera, some 3 years since the announcement of the ground breaking K750.
While the underlying hardware barely changes, the O/S running on the phones seems to get more unreliable.
really messed up with Symbian 9 and UIQ3 in the P990, never properly addressed the significant bugs and dropped support just as soon as they could get away with it, thus really annoying the faithful early adopters - big mistake.
What happened to UIQ3.3? Is this gone the way of Paris?
Meanwhile in the mid end there are plenty of reports of stability issues with the A200 platform and phones running this.
This so reminds me of Nokia at the beginning of the new millenium, releasing buggy, bland phones. It's why I jumped from Nokia to Sony Ericsson and found an amazing phone in the T68i.
It's why why I grabbed the P900i which was so innovative and blew everything else away.
I'd really hoped to change my bland but stable V630i this year for a P1 replacement, but it looks like I'll need to look at my options now.
Such a shame to see
slide like this.
Innovate or stagnate ... we know where
are right now ... they need to get back to innovation and fix this cancer now.
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Posted: 2008-07-19 00:05:32
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@jayce, I agree with everything you say.
I have both a P990 and a recently acquired P1. The only advantage, though a significant one, the P1 has over the P990 is RAM - and some fw improvements which SE could have given the P990 as well. In almost all respects the P1 is a downgrade from the P990 but it's still worth getting as the price has really come down.
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Posted: 2008-07-19 00:51:09
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Woah tension in this thread, it would seem some of you guys have Shares in SE. I could understand if you worked there but do take it easy guys its only money after all.
If you really look at it, credit crunch has affected everyone from London to Tokyo everyone is feeling the pinch.
Yes design has been a major factor and response time in releasing products is SE achilles heel. I do hope they will start to churn out some new designs hell if they lost for ideas why not start trickling down some of those Japanese only designs.
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Posted: 2008-07-19 01:35:33
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