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"Jenn over at Pocketables is a woman after my heart; she’s got her eye firmly on the XPERIA X1 release, and isn’t letting the lack of official pricing from Sony Ericsson stop her from looking around for the best deal. It turns out that plenty of online retailers aren’t waiting for Sony Ericsson to reveal the X1’s price either: figures vary from almost $1,500 at the top end down to $699 at the bottom, and remember these are made-up discounts from the made-up full retail prices!

Here are the figures Jenn found:

MobileCityOnline - $999 ($1,199 retail)
CellHUT - $699 ($899 retail)
Wireless Galaxy - $1,428 ($1,500 retail)
Smart Mobile Gadgets - $979.94
A quick Froogle pulls up a few more prices - for instance PhoneCycle, who are placing their bets high up, at $1,428.99 - but until Sony Ericsson unveil their final release date and pricing (which will at least be before the end of the year, we now know) expect all of these stores accepting pre-orders to issue caveats suggesting you might owe them more money."

http://www.phonemag.com/se-xp[....]ces-sheer-guesswork-031710.php


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Posted: 2008-03-15 00:43:17
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won't be cheap thats for sure.


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Posted: 2008-03-15 01:33:44
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Why is the phone so expensive when it's not even that good?
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Posted: 2008-03-15 03:58:18
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Hi all

Well as interesting as that is if it are expecting to charge a premium for it being SE and it's not competitive with HTC's or others with similiar products prices they will end up restricting them selves to just to the SE faithfull and that just won't shift enough units. For thier first WM device to stand a chance it will needs to be competively priced or it just won't sell in any real quantity IMO as after all SE have no track record with WM so why would a WM user swap to SE if it's more expensive simply they won't.

Marc

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[ This Message was edited by: Dogmann on 2008-03-15 03:06 ]
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Posted: 2008-03-15 04:06:14
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Good point. Ok, htc devices arent cheap either, but xperia cant and wont match any htc imo wm os users wont go for uiq, not to mention the form factor

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Posted: 2008-03-15 04:58:58
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it'll always be overpriced the first time out
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Posted: 2008-03-15 05:36:13
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these prices are speculative - not based on anything SE have released (because they haven't released anything about pricing)

As to it not being any good, why do you say that? It's atleast as good on paper as other high end WM smartphones, which usually retail for anything up to $1400 (Australian). So most of the above pricing isn't unrealistic at all
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Posted: 2008-03-15 07:02:49
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time will tell hey! ......



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Posted: 2008-03-15 07:35:12
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whats not good??


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Posted: 2008-03-15 17:49:48
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have u used the phone?
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Posted: 2008-03-15 19:40:46
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