C'mon.... If no market competition, then how they going to improve their products and service right?

There's must be some reason why their phones are not favourable by the market.

Perhaps they need to perform some analysis before rolling off the next product line.

Not sure how their R&D's expenses..

IMO SE still dreaming consumer prefer stylish outlook more than usability features, SE's technology has been stalled since K750 & K800 generation.

Does P1i has stylish outlook?

Consider YES if compare with HTC S620

Is it slim or fat?

thats rather strange though , cause when they were still seprate companies, ericsson had (for its time) some rather good phones ...

May i know why Sony and Ericsson joint-venture in the 1st place?

for me, above 15mm consider fat


too bad sony is big share holder (right??)


to compete No-Kia jk jk..

anything happened..just start blaming something else..



IF they ever great SONY E cant cope with the market competition what bout LG..its going well for them..



Bcos that time..iianm..sony and ericsson are both dying..do they decided to join venture..

google for the answer..

worrying news. 97% drop is 1 heck of a big drop. I have always prefer SE phone over the other brand cuz i am gotten used to the way the SE phone work. I have prob using a Nokia for 2 weeks as a spare phone. Not that Nokia is a bad phone or i am anti Nokia but i am so used to SE. Been using for the past 7 years.

Hopefully SE can turn the corner fast. Probably they can change the UI a little... make the icon look friendlier, more stylish. SE oledi have the music phone (think W series) and now camera phone (think C-series). Some popular function like GPS should be mainstay feature in new releases but i don't see them yet. I just bought a G900 and kinda surprise no std GPS function (well, i can install Google map but that is not a GPS in real sense) and 3G oni (i was expecting HSDPA to be included..!!!).

I thought only Xperia and C905 got built-in GPS?

Do you think SE really lost that much or sneaky accounting? or too many W series failed them?

Actually SE main focus is Camera or Walkman?

dunno abt the Xperia or C905, G900 DON"T have GPS. I expect G900 to have GPS but no.

Don't think Walkman phone fail SE. Prob their cost is high. I wonder when SE uses the cybershot and walkman trademark, do they pay royalty to Sony?

hope SE should priority on quality rather than quantity after this..
dun want any Firmware problem again

Nokia added in AIC33 Chip on Xpress Music, Samsung invite B&O. what about SE Walkman flagship? return to K630 old design + old day W800's walkman engine?


http://www.mobile-review.com/articles/2008/se-w902-en.shtml

i'm not into Hi-Tech war

past few years, i used 3 low-end hps.
nokia 6101, LG 271 & currently se T250i.

UI
being not-so-enriched hp, i vote for LG.
if nokia has a good UI, LG is even better!
frankly speaking, i prefer not the se's interface.

what if using LG UI operated with Symbian, outllook from SE

LG is using their own OS, right?

Not really, from what I know for feature phone a.k.a non-OS phone, LG/SE/Samsung they using quite similar JP platform, except Nokia, using own S40

Hmm... SE should learn from this setback. IMHO SE lacks applications and most of their RM1.5K phone does not come with HSDPA support. Picture quality from camera not very outstanding to beat the competitor. Compare W960 and N82, price margin quite the same, but application wise and picture quality from their camera poses quite a wide margin of different.5 MP(N82) as oppose to 3.2 MP (W960). the only thing W960 could be proud of is only its hefty 8GB internal memory.

Breaking: Sony Pushes Out Three New Walkmen Phones, the W302, W902 and W595

London July 22 .... Today, Sony Ericsson unveils its latest innovative additions to the Walkman™ phone family: the W902, W595 and W302, and seven new music accessories.

www.sonyericsson.com/reveals

Sony ready for Q4? As usual, these gem are not found until October at least.

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http://gizmodo.com/5027610/sony-pushes-out...2-w902-and-w595

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The Walkman™ phone through history
Walkman™ phone continues to chart high

• August 2005 – Sony Ericsson launches its very first Walkman™ phone – the W800
• December 2005 - Three million Walkman™ phones sold to date
• April 2006 – Sony Ericsson launches its first Walkman™ phone music accessories; MPS-60 portable speakers, which goes on to sell millions of units worldwide
• October 2006 – Sony Ericsson launches its first slider Walkman™ phone – the W850 which also introduces the unique TrackID™ music recognition application
• November 2006 –Sony Ericsson launches the W950 Walkman™ with the biggest storage yet - 4GB
• December 2006 – 20 million Walkman™ phones sold to date
• February 2007 – Sony Ericsson launches its slimmest Walkman™ - the W880
• November 2007 – W910 Walkman™ phone with Turbo 3G/HSDPA launches as a complete entertainment device
• December 2007 – Walkman™ phone sales hit 57 million
• February 2008 – Sony Ericsson launches the W350, with Walkman™ on top and W380 with gesture control
• July 2008 – W980 Walkman™ phone with clear audio experience launches

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SE ready for USA market with Quad band

they left out the w900i .lol

suppose w900 the 1st swivel walkman rite

looks like SE Walkman phone is doing pretty well. from launch till Dec 07 (approx 28 mths), sold 57mil units. Probably here is where SE should concentrate short term to turn around.

Probably SE should revamp their G series phone. I got a G900 but compared to some "other", the feature is a little lacking. And add Carl Zeiss lens to its C-series.

both actually...W series focuses more on walkman functionality whilst K series focuses more on camera..but it seems that the latest K is enriched with unsolved bugs



i second u bro...i was always having a thot of selling my k850i off



yes...as far as i concern

now latest w902 might kill c902 (camera category) sales....haha...w902 hs all the c902 goodies (except dedicated touch key) with additional music key
after all, Se represtative mentioned w902 aim for use who love music but still need excellent cam (they learn from Nokia )

unless they play W900 strategy, sky price for w902

yep, and one of SE's biggest problems, they have the chipset in the k850i, so why not use it in more models not just on the z750i and k850i. they can get a lot of sales world wide if they used that triband 3g, quadband gsm on the models, instead they still make triband 3g/gprs.

Then they release the same model only look different from 2 years ago with little changes. And design I wish se would actually make a decent looking flip phone similar to their japanese models, not the ugly models they release. They tried too much to make every model different from each other when they were really too similar. Not a fan of the european designs from se, my favorite se's were the ones that have more japanese styling, s700i, w900i, etc

Okay. I think SE still could beat Motorola in every sense. Moto doesn't have a fine camera phone (SE going to come out 8Mp ade and Moto still stuck with 5MP), a walkman like phone (Moto Rokr E8). Don't even bother about cheap moto phone. They look like shit. Moto will really drop out of mobile arena if they don't produce any good phone in future.

Do u know Moto ZN5 have Wifi and no 3G? WTF?

...and both of them r going to graves.

But Motorola wana sell its mobile phone division right? Got buyer already?

Nokia Malaysia MD: Mr Barry Lee

Ericsson President and Country Manager: Mr Krishna Kumar

LG Electronics managing director: Mr Ko Tae Yeon

Motorola Malaysia country president: Mohd Asri Hassan Sabri

Samsung Malaysia MD and CEO: Mr Lee Tae Jik

Does the list above give you some idea about their respective performance?

Yellow People..

No. Not yet. Nobody want to buy... the Moto crap mobile devision.

Some IP pretty worthwhile, hope the buyer can revive Moto, if they up for sale, but there are speculation that buyer simply split up the Moto and sell sell sell

I think most buyer looking forward to buy the RF technology and safety feature that moto implement and develop.

they should do an extensive studies on the people's need and innovate some new features rather than going along with the trend.

Moto...only their Rarz model hot selling (on old day)

I still using my V3i. Hehe..

still a good quality phone

Yea. But its battery cant last long.. Normally last for 1-2 days

I'm currently a SE user. And is true that a phone will become quite boring as time move on, if, the phone is not freely configurable as a computer would.

The most a SE phone can configure are:
1. Theme
2. Wallpaper
3. Ringtone
4. Other - which is not really important

And that's about it. I don't really get it is that, why SE wants to separate W and K (maybe now is refer to C?) series since most of the models being produced by them are almost the same look & feel, and only different in colouring??

I guess SE just want to gain profit by minor "face-lift" of whatever model they currently have and not spending too much in R & D, which to me, I think is bad.

Think I might switch to Nokia after my W850i reach its dead zone.

still good enough isn't it for V3i

right , some people don`t even know what is wifi , 3g even .. just know that phone can take pictures and put mp3 ringtones .lol

Change new battery and this should solve the problem... remember to buy ori one or later kena explode.

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Added on July 25, 2008, 1:51 pmI'm using Moto A1200 aka Ming. "Quite" a good phone.

Moto Ming using Linux OS, right? Will hang or lag?

Yes yes. Linux as always for the Moto A & E series. The fon is seldom hang but it lag sometimes only when open three or more apps.

I doubt that Motorola got more than 32mb RAM

Motorola phones are only good for their CDMA PCS models.
There's nothing interesting about Motorola GSM phones.What IP does Motorola phones have that other don't have?