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 Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 8:44 pm Post subject: Samsung i607 smartphone has been FCC approved |
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Samsung is strong in area of Windows Mobile phones in USA, but it is mainly due to several nice Pocket PC phones, not MS Smartphone devices, and mainly for CDMA (Sprint, Verizon Wireless) and not GSM (T-Mobile, Cing...
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bucci
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| Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 9:21 pm Post subject: |
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Potential to be a Q-Killer, but it lost both the front-facing cam and wifi in its Cingular translation.  |
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sherwinzadeh
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| Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| bucci wrote: | | Potential to be a Q-Killer, but it lost both the front-facing cam and wifi in its Cingular translation. |
I really don't think Motorola is going to let all these copy-cats kill the Q -- look how many times the RAZRs been updated just on the Verizon network. I was in Chicago the other day and there were so many people using the Q -- probably because it's near the Moto headquarters.
As for WiFi, I don't know a single non-technical person in the U.S. that uses it. Most people just get the unlimited data plans and you just get used to using EVDO all the time. The plans are expensive but I think people in the U.S. prefer paying for something at a flat rate and not worrying about whether they're in a hotspot or not... we're a little spoiled, I guess.
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EJR
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| Posted: Wed Oct 04, 2006 11:42 pm Post subject: |
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| sherwinzadeh wrote: |
I really don't think Motorola is going to let all these copy-cats kill the Q --
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vice president of Motorola was showing me personally once Motorola MPx and Motorola MPx100. Both these phones were cancelled and never made any impact. While Q for sure will not be cancelled the delay of GSM/UMTS version and battery problems in CDMA version mean practically that Motorola will soon become irrelevant in area of smartphones. |
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Physboy
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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| msmobiles.com_wiseacre wrote: | | sherwinzadeh wrote: |
I really don't think Motorola is going to let all these copy-cats kill the Q --
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vice president of Motorola was showing me personally once Motorola MPx and Motorola MPx100. Both these phones were cancelled and never made any impact. While Q for sure will not be cancelled the delay of GSM/UMTS version and battery problems in CDMA version mean practically that Motorola will soon become irrelevant in area of smartphones. |
I agree with wiseacre, given Motorola's history in the smartphone and PPC market. In all of this time they have only come out with 3 total devices for the smartphone, 2 of which are not even made anymore. In addition, they only came out with 1 PPC Phone edition device which was quickly limited to the Asian market and dropped shortly thereafter.
Motorola just has not had the presence to make a large wolrdwide impact in the smartphone market. Not that they do not have the capacity to innovate and come up with something truly desirable in either the smartphone or PPC Phone edition market, just that they have not to date and do not appear to be too concerned with it.
I mean c'mon the ROKR, what a snoozer. |
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sherwinzadeh
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 5:21 pm Post subject: |
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| msmobiles.com_wiseacre wrote: | | Motorola will soon become irrelevant in area of smartphones. |
I do agree that the Q has some areas that need improvement (which is good for third party developers like myself  ) but I think one thing that we don't give enough credit to Motorola for is that the Q is extending the user base for Windows Mobile to those that would NEVER get a Windows Mobile phone. The Q has amazing styling that has gets noticed by people who would never get something dorky like a Treo or a Blackberry. In this respect of expanding the user base of Windows Mobile, I think the Q can be the most significant Windows Mobile phone ever released. The Q is the first device that made Windows Mobile cool.
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kupe
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| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 9:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Physboy wrote: | | I agree with wiseacre, given Motorola's history in the smartphone and PPC market. In all of this time they have only come out with 3 total devices for the smartphone, 2 of which are not even made anymore. |
Couldn't the same thing be said of Samsung regarding PPC Phones (i700, i730)? I don't consider them a failure. That said, often times I feel like Motorola just doesn't "get it" when it comes to the whole package (PDA-phonewise). They have superior radios (reception), excellent sound, clear voice, but a lot of their phones' features are kludgey or half-baked. Of course, I could make a similarly general case about every other producer of PDA phones, I suppose. |
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Physboy
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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| kupe wrote: | | Couldn't the same thing be said of Samsung regarding PPC Phones (i700, i730)? I don't consider them a failure. |
Actually the same thing cannot be said of Samsung. Samsung has a long history of making smartphones since the i300. They have created a presence and are holding their own in the market as a result of it. Although, I do not think much of the latest device, the i830, I do believe that they are certainly far better positioned in the market compared to Motorola regarding smartphones. |
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kupe
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| Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:01 pm Post subject: |
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| Physboy wrote: | | kupe wrote: | | Couldn't the same thing be said of Samsung regarding PPC Phones (i700, i730)? I don't consider them a failure. |
Actually the same thing cannot be said of Samsung. Samsung has a long history of making smartphones since the i300. |
OK - I wasn't sure if you were using the term "smartphone" (the world's most ill-defined term) to include Palm OS phones. In that regard Samsung does have more experience - and a lot more success. |
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