![]() Considering how frequent and intense I use my mobile devices, anything with a flip would be a pain to use (something I experienced with both the R380s and A008, the only other devices with a flip that I ever used). You can choose either a flip-on or flip-off mode. A little on the bulky side, but that is no problem to me considering the features and capabilities of the device. He might've made it worse.The phone is candy-bar shaped. Sony-Ericsson Venture In Jeopardy 08.30.02 Ericsson CEO Hellstrom threatens to bail out if handset sales don't pick up. The Rise Of Samsung 11.11.02 Sales of mobile phones are picking up, and the Korean company's market share is too.Įricsson Is Still Sliding Downhill 10.18.02 The Swedish equipment maker says its key market is still shrinking but will stabilize in 2003. Wireless Gaming Gets Serious 02.11.02 With its N-Gage wireless gaming platform, Nokia throws down a challenge to Nintendo's Game Boy. Linux Late To The Smartphone Party 02.13.03 Motorola will base some new phones on the Linux operating system. Of Phoenix, says that in the third quarter of 2002, phone sales picked up by 5% sequentially and 7% year over year. Consumer are edging back into the market. Ericsson's stock price saw a healthy bump on that news.īut the mobile-phone market is still working its way back from a serious downturn. Hellstrom last month announced he would retire and will be replaced by Grumped that if sales didn't pick up soon, he would consider walking away from the joint venture. The picture at Sony Ericsson looks much different than it did last summer. #SONY ERICSSON CANDY BAR BLUETOOTH#The T608, for example, combines Bluetooth capabilities with a CDMA phone, which it says is a first. Without a service provider, the price of the phone will be in the $700 range, but carriers typically subsidize part of the price in exchange for a service contract, so the price will vary from carrier to carrier-and should be much lower.Īnd though it's primarily known for its GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) phones, the company also announced a pair of smart-looking phones that will work on CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) networks that tend to predominate in the U.S. Sony Ericsson has not yet specified which wireless companies will carry the phone. Both should hit markets in those regions in the second quarter of the year. and Canada, the phone will be billed the T616, and in China it will be called the T618. The phone weighs in about 3 ounces and has a battery standby time of about 13 days and talk time of 14 hours. It's a tri-band GSM phone, meaning it should work on wireless networks pretty much anywhere in the world, from Europe to the U.S., most of Asia and South America as well as parts of Africa. ![]() #SONY ERICSSON CANDY BAR SOFTWARE#The software lets users control music, video or presentations on the Mac from across a room. One popular shareware application making the rounds right now, called Sony Ericsson Clicker, allows a Sony Ericsson phone with Bluetooth to act like a remote control for Bluetooth-ready Macintosh computers from It also has Bluetooth wireless technology built in, which allows short-range data connections with other phones or Bluetooth-ready PDAs, printers and PCs. ![]() This time the add-on accessory is a flash module for when there isn't sufficient light for a good picture. The flagship phone in the new lineup is the T610, a candy bar-shaped phone with a color screen and an integrated digital camera on the back. This week, Sony Ericsson showed new life with a new lineup of designs that, if wireless carriers like them, should at least get sales moving in the right direction. Of South Korea, commanding a scant 6% of the world's market for mobile phones.īut it's not giving up the fight. Yet, Sony Ericsson still hasn't shown any progress toward retaking the number-three spot that Ericsson used to command behind ![]()
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