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Sony Ericsson: Dead, dying, don’t even bother. We’re a Sony Ericsson Free Zone!

Started by Ewan · 11 months ago

What will it take to get the mobile community excited about a Sony Ericsson device?

Steve Jobs announcing a 100% acquisition, perhaps.

The Xperia looks nice. I had a look at it last week at 3’s event. I was particularly impressed.

To be clear I was impressed at 3. Not at Sony Ericsson. [...] ... Continue reading »

22 comments

  • Mac Morrison

    11 months ago

    well they have the Cyber-shot C905 with its 8meg camera
    and their walkman phones sell well, and are nicely designed.
    the current bassets allsorts cybershot will sell by the bucket load too.

    sure they arent catering for the smart phone market - but they are selling to the mass markets
    so i don't expect them to go bust anytime soon.

    motorola on the other hand, haven't released anything of late, except rehashes.
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  • Ewan

    11 months ago

    An 8 meg camera and what else?

    It's same old stuff, rehashed, recycled... HOW are we meant to move forward
    as an industry when it's the same thing in different sizes and packages?
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  • Kip Hakes

    11 months ago

    Hmmm could argue that with Nokia and the N-Series - don't get me wrong - I *love* my N95 - but now Samsung are starting to kick ass with Symbian - i've got a feeling my next phone might not be another Nokia.
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  • Ricky Chotai

    11 months ago

    Ewan they may not be doing anything excited but they still sell loads, look at your normobs how many samsungs did you see? it was mostly Se's and Nokia's.
    They are very popular with youth market.
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  • Kip Hakes

    11 months ago

    Samsungs - i've found - seem to be for the female normobs. I guess they'd like the slim and sexy designs.. Not meaning to stereotype :)
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  • Ewan

    11 months ago

    You're absolutely correct Ricky. And how depressing is that.

    If you're a mobile applications developer, forget it. Anyone that buys a
    Sony Ericsson, just... forget them. WORSE if they're contracted on 18
    months. Forget that customer for at least 18 months.
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  • Abul

    11 months ago

    With the recent slump in profits and expecting to lose more going forward, they probably aren't selling as many as we think. These are old handsets which have been out for some time. Sony Ericsson is going backwards. LG and Samsung will overtake them.
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  • Mac Morrison

    11 months ago

    well its got stuff like face recognition and links into uploading services like flickr /facebook
    yes not totally new - but all stuff that seals the deal at the carphonewarehouse or o2 basildon.

    n series sells well - but is minor compared to 6300 and 6500 sales.
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  • Ewan

    11 months ago

    This is the problem. Sealing the deal at Carphone Warehouse means you're
    holding back development and innovation by another 18 months. Dear me.

    Sony Ericsson devices are telephones that also include text messaging
    facilities. And a few other interesting services.

    How the hell are you supposed to buy your mum some flowers with three clicks
    on a Sony Ericsson device?

    You can, of course, use the device's piece of shit browser....
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  • Ricky Chotai

    11 months ago

    but what about the walkman side of it ewan and some of their camera phones. That is why people still choose them!
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  • Ewan

    11 months ago

    NEXT!
    reply
  • Ricky Chotai

    11 months ago

    haha no convincing you hey? Oh well I am sure they will pull something out of the bag soon! ;)
    reply
  • nacho

    11 months ago

    :-( oh no... are they really that crap?

    My P1 hardly misbehaves... at least no more than my previous Nokias.

    I use 4 email addresses in a SEVEN email client I installed, plus newsgator, blogger, Shozu, even the native RSS feeds, eqo and/or fring sometimes

    I also use the native browser and/or the mini Opera but my browsing needs are not that great provided my email/calendar/sync needs are addressed

    I'm up for an upgrade in the autumn but what are the alternatives? with the same size of the p1?
    reply
  • Ewan

    11 months ago

    Yup. What are you going to go for? Can we interest you in some Windows
    Mobile powered rubbish Xperia devices at all, Nacho?
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  • nacho

    11 months ago

    Well I wanted one of those but now I'm confused... What do you advise?

    Ignacio
    - Sent from my P1 with System SEVEN -
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  • Ben Smith

    11 months ago

    The Xperia is barely an SE handset anyway - an HTC-made device with a Microsoft-made OS.... apart from the initiative to commission it and the sticky label, what's SE about it?
    reply
  • Ewan

    11 months ago

    The stupid bit of circular plastic that forms the SE logo.
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  • mj

    11 months ago

    That's so depressing. The Xperia was meant to be THE iPhone killer. S-E have managed to go from being THE name in cool phones (I had a T39m, a T68i, then a T610 switched to MOT for a RAZR and then back to SE for a K800i). I lusted after the P900 series.

    Sad.
    reply
  • nacho

    11 months ago

    V depressing
    How about a SE code named Paris I keep hearing about? Is this the P5?
    reply
  • Abul

    11 months ago

    Steer clear of SE's for now. The Paris is going to be based on UIQ, which in itself is a dying OS.
    reply
  • Mac Morrison

    11 months ago

    actually things are quite DIRE for SE at the moment...
    http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsso...
    reply
  • Ewan

    11 months ago

    Deary me.
    reply

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