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Dear Sirs and Madams:
A T616 marked my entry into GSM-based mobile phones. That phone perfectly blended size, style, features, functionality, usability, connectivity, durability, and price. Ever since then, your company's phones have been my favorites for these reasons. My brief wanderings to Motorola and Nokia underscored these points, thus always bringing me back to
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I was thus elated by the
recent news of a major expansion by
into the US market. I have long lamented the manner in which carriers such as Cingular and T-Mobile USA marginalized your market share here. To that end, allow me to share my ideas for making
the dominant mobile phone manufacturer in North America.
As much a matter of pride as anything else, give us exactly the same phones you offer in the rest of the world. Many of us dislike the apparent "dumbing down" of the amazing devices sold elsewhere for our use. I understand the differences in GSM frequencies and 3G technologies between Cingular, T-Mobile USA, and the rest of the world. I thus propose you engineer your products as follows: * high-end 3G phones should each be a true "World Phone" containing every voice frequency, every data frequency, and every 3G protocol used throughout the GSM world, much like the HTC TyTn and Hermes; * mid-range phones should be quad-band with EDGE; and * low-range phones should be quad-band with GPRS.
In line with the above, please also provide us the same selection of mobiles as offered elsewhere.
An increasing number of mobile phone users, myself included, prefer SIM-unlocked and firmware-unbranded devices. Carriers like Cingular are notorious for moving extremely slowly to introduce new
devices (e.g. the W810), and then crippling much of the feature set through its own "branding." Thus,
should expand its sales of devices configured as such, whether through its own sales channels or those of third-party vendors.
Launch a major marketing campaign here! WTA sponsorship isn't nearly enough. Everyone knows Motorola and Nokia.
can similarly become a household word, especially if it capitalizes on its "Walkman" and "Cybershot" names.
Thank you in advance for listening. May this mark the dawn of a new age for
in North America!
Sincerely,
Hlcn Twst
PS: On a personal note, I'd like to see better integration of your phones'
application with Apple's iTunes software. The iPod is the dominant portable music player here, meaning almost every user thereof uses iTunes. Offering this functionality would go a long way in steering iPod sales towards
phones. Also, please improve your overall Mac compatibility, especially with the
M600, P990, and W950. You've neglected this computing platform with your software, which is unwise given the Mac's growing market share. Nokia plans to address this, and so should
Esato members: I welcome your comments on the above
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Posted: 2007-03-29 18:29:46
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I just don't see iTunes integration ever coming to
phones largely because of the Sony Walkman branding. If Sony, for good reason, has avoided iTunes integration with their portable music devices, why would they allow a branded product to do it? It is just not reasonable to expect any manufacturer that already has a music brand to allow iTunes integration.
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Posted: 2007-03-29 19:25:32
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Why not? Think about it. I bet one reason keeping iPod/iTunes users from changing to a
phone is the difficulty of getting iTunes music onto such a phone. If
added into Disc2Phone a very basic utility for copying over music and playlists, it would remove this barrier.
I'm sure it's not going to happen, but I think it makes a lot of sense. It's working for Apple, in taking sales away from Micro$oft, by emphasizing how Macs do all the same things as PCs (Office, Internet, games, etc.)
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Posted: 2007-03-29 20:09:45
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You do have a point Mr Hlcn Twst (I'm assuming your a 'he' ).
Now that EMI has taken off the DRM from their tracks I think we might be at the beginning of a mini amnesty on DRM - its unpopular with everyone. There will always be new music to buy and new people to buy it so why try and stop it from circulating?
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Posted: 2007-04-04 15:45:43
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The Z750's the first step for your "dream" to come true.
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Posted: 2007-04-11 03:46:50
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Lets hope there are plenty more.
Our American cousins have been deprived of Sony Ericsson goodies for too long and what with all the nice 3.5G networks springing up lets hope there are some great and good high-speed goodies too.
I'm intrigued.
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Posted: 2007-04-11 09:10:25
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SE will never implant itunes. itunes is good, but not that good.
and SE is working on the walkman 3.0 software.
ipod on the other hand is passing its high peak. when SE focuses on the US, the walkman range will become ipods killer.
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Posted: 2007-04-11 12:00:19
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