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On 2012-03-03 22:56:14, etaab wrote:
On 2012-03-03 17:53:15, vlotnet wrote:
Unless I'm missing something, Ericsson have said their last goodbye to the consumer side of things.
I dont see why they cannot. Anybody can make anything surely ? theres no law against it.
Licensing patents that are now owned by Sony, bringing together development teams Sony bought...all things Ericsson would have to do to get into 'consumer' phones again.
Considering that both of them together (Sony Ericsson) were struggling to make profit, and now with the far less ambiguous SONY branding and worldwide recognition, I doubt it would be cost-effective for them to jump into phones again since they sold a lot of their IP and human resources to Sony.
In fact, it would make no business sense whatsoever unless they had some ground-breaking new technology that would turn the phone world on its head (and even then they'd be better off licensing to existing players).
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Posted: 2012-03-04 18:56:29
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Does anybody of you regularly make phone calls with the tiny little SE T600?
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Posted: 2012-03-07 10:03:50
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T68 was the tiniest phone i've held so far(doubt there will be anything smaller than that today) but it felt natural in hands and the keys are easy to use, I never had such comfort with a nokia 8210 back then
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Posted: 2012-03-07 13:06:08
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Hi bucheral!
My First Sony Ericsson was the T68i that i borrowed from my brother, wery nice and reliable phone but one thing is for sure that I noticed, you can't swim with it
Since then I have used K810i and C905, both phones were really great and worked wery well. I choosed them because the very good cameras they had.
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Posted: 2012-03-25 09:29:42
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SE is the best phone.. why we have to suffer this? i mean why they have to split up in their very good business?
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Posted: 2012-03-26 14:32:31
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It was never a "very good business" - don't get me wrong, I loved Ericsson phones back in the day and I really wanted SE to succeed, but in the early days all I saw was Sony strangling Ericsson's innovation, and then worthless Sony marketing taking it's place.
Ericsson invented Bluetooth, pioneered colour screens, cameras, touchscreens, data... all Sony ever invented was stupid brandnames. Cybershot. Walkman. Xperia. Each one designed to gloss over the thorough and all-encompassing mediocrity of the actual technology inside. Surprise surprise, it didn't work, and customers gradually moved on to better things.
Now their solution is yet another branding exercise - pull out the one big gun they still have in their arsenal and just call themselves Sony. Except even the Sony brand itself has been tarnished over the years, by the same complacency that afflicted SE, and is no guarantee of success anymore.
Over the past ten years they've surrendered their technological lead, lost their identity, pushed aside customer loyalty, given up on their own platforms and software, and finally put themselves at the utter mercy of Google in a crowded marketplace full of better hardware than they're capable of producing. Good luck to them I say.
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Posted: 2012-03-26 17:12:59
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my first SonyEricsson phone was a T68i
Before that I went through all sorts of manufacturers, Siemens, Sagem, motorola, Alcatel.
But after the T68i, I have had only SonyEricsson phones. (T610, P800, P910, W800, W910, and more)
They've had some really interesting and stylish phones over the years, but failed in the recent years.
Im hoping that some of that magic will come back with the new Sony takeover.
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Posted: 2012-03-26 17:55:31
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but SE phone is good to us.. i feel it man.. i know in myself that SE is the best phone ive ever had
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Posted: 2012-03-27 11:24:43
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Remember this tiny little SE phone, finally after many years I managed to get one in really nice condition and fully working!
@Stolleman:
we were angry when Sony joined Ericsson, but you are right it was definitely worth carrying on with SE phones, you mentioned some nice models!
@all: thanks for all your comments and pics!
[ This Message was edited by: bucheral on 2012-03-27 21:01 ]
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Posted: 2012-03-27 21:58:04
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I wonder, if someone here might be interested in an unused, boxed, simfree K750i or W800i at a reasonable price ?
We're planning to sell them, because we have too many phones, but, as both phones and accessoiries are in mint condition, plus they both have the CID36 camera module, I'd prefer to sell them to a collector, not to somebody who's only looking for a cheap spare.
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Posted: 2012-03-27 22:28:17
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