The BBC News website is reporting that Sony Ericsson is to cut two thousand jobs over the next year, in order to cut operating costs. The company was making a profit this time last year, but in the last quarter it reported a small loss.
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The report says SE want to concentrate more on low end phones in expanding markets rather than high end models in saturated markets.
Together with Moto's troubles, maybe UIQ would have had to end anyway even if Symbian hadn't been bought by Nokia?
The UIQ is already end ..if someone still thought its still in the market then why SE didnt complete the P series development and where is the P5?...
UIQ isnt bad OS...but the OS can do nothing alone..sometimes i ask who is the better Symbian S60 or Windows mobile and cant find the answer becauz its on par each have its advantage and disadvantage..but why i prefere Symbian S60 100 time over Windows???...simply the answer is becauz its Nokia vs HTC...the same story with UIQ..:tongue:
SE didnt make any flagship phone like nor flagship series and there catagorization is very poor...K Camera W music??????...but excuse me who need music mean need images and video too i guess..😡
the last (acceptable phone) from SE was the P910i PDA...😮
The report says SE want to concentrate more on low end phones in expanding markets rather than high end models in saturated markets.Together with Moto's troubles, maybe UIQ would have had to end anyway even if Symbian hadn't been bought by Nokia?
I totally agree with you on that point. One other thing that gets to me is that, a one time innovator like SE seems to be eroding slowly like HELLOMOTO brand. I cant recollect anything innovative they ve brought to the mobile platforms in the last 18 months, Someone should correct me if i am wrong; all i see from them (SE) is clones of their previous winners.
With Motorola they may have been a victim of their own success, in its own time the RAZR got as much hype in the US press as the iPhone, which may have made Moto rely too much on one model and one niche.
I don't know much about S-E but there was talk recently that Sony wasn't happy with the partnership, so maybe S-E hasn't had enough support from both its parent companies?
Allmar, I totally share your sentiment about P910i. It was last user-friendly UIQ smartphone they put out. I would have taken P920i or P930i (better camera, faster processor, bugfixes to UIQ2) any time.
Looks as if those people who made it went away from the company.
What a shame - that phone is very close to iPhone in usability. And it was way before the iPhone, so they still had time to innovate back then.
Instead they chose UIQ3 and there the UI shifted so badly that many people jumped ship to Windows Mobile or else. All was needed is evolution, not revolution. The same mistake Netscape made.
Bye SE,
I never bought any of your phones but Nice knowing ya. :tongue:
They're not closing down, Hardeep1singh. 😊
It sounds like they want to concentrate on low end phones for a while, which to be fair is where most of the growth is.
Huh? I thought most of the growth is set to be in iPhone 3G share among smartphones. Remember, phones with cameras were as "rare & niche" as smartphones are now.
The cause of this problems is obvious. They haven't upgraded their product line with modern smartphones but instead released slight modified K800/P990i/W800 based models. I switched to S60 in 2005 because SE didn't release any competitors to the N- and later E-series besides P990i, P1i and M600i (and W950i/960i). Instead they focused on the old fashioned concept with K8x0 series and W8x0.
I guess Nokia has taken the market with Rage once again. I got a w850i free with my contract and used it for only one day and bought my own Nokia E70-1 of 220 GBP.