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gadgetboytom Posts: > 500
so sendo pulled out of the ms venture to join symbian
whos next?
oh dear its xbox all over again
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Posted: 2002-11-07 15:46:00
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Yeh it is next biggest suprise for me after Pulling off Mobile GPRS module for LOOX This week.
http://mobile.burn.com/news.jsp?Id=146
I wonder whats happened .. i know that tthey didnt have free hands with develp. program because of Microsoft.. but what realy happened? as they had to be first Stinger phone? Does anybody see under the cover?
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Posted: 2002-11-07 23:11:00
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This is very surprising.
The Sendo Z100 features in the latest CPW catalogue, priced £179 on Vodafone. How can they get that close to launching a product and then drop it? I first saw a picture of the phone in a magazine 2 years ago - 2 years of R and D wasted!
I wonder what the reasons are...doesn't look good for Smartphone.
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Posted: 2002-11-08 12:50:00
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spv is still coming right? and what about that samsung smartphone?
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Posted: 2002-11-08 22:11:00
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Big applause for Sendo. Microsoft should stick to what they do best...ripping people off on the PC software market!
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Posted: 2002-11-08 22:47:00
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It must have been something quite big for Sendo to pull their flagship phone literally days before the release. I sure wonder what the real reason is.
I'm not defending MS here, but the whole debacle is a far bigger blow to Sendo than it is to Microsoft. I don't think Sendo made this decision based on principle or strategy. Saying that is typical PR and this is going to hurt their cash flow big time. Because of the timing of the announcement, it sounds to me like Sendo didn't have any other choice.
As far as I know the SPV is still on track...
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Posted: 2002-11-08 23:13:00
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as ive said elsewhere sendo couldn't make a decent doorstop - who here has one???? they probably ran out of money testing it & then couldn't afford to make it after.
SPV is on it's way - I got my hands on it the other day - the software occasionally 'hangs' & the centre keys are a bit closly spaced - the handset did not crash & quality is very good - it is rumured that the processor may be upgrade from 166mhz on production models - I tried a very late prototype model - it is EXCELLENT!
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Posted: 2002-11-08 23:29:00
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I am not supried that its excellent. I have been saying it would be an excellent phone from day 1. I still stand by my first thought. Don't dismiss the smartphones just because of the OS being from MS. If you do that your short changing yourself from a very very nice device. Think about about that all you MS bashers out there.
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Posted: 2002-11-08 23:40:00
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I just don't understand ms bashing. It's all sour grapes from people that wished they were the ones that thought of 'it'. In this day and age if a different manufacturer was any good they would be in with a chance. i.e. Linux, people keep going on about how good it is and it should be on pda and phones but It's crap with no support except from people who assume you should know better than to ask for help! Long live ms!
This post was posted from a T68i
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Posted: 2002-11-09 00:55:00
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Peanut well said.
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Posted: 2002-11-09 06:09:00
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