Too bad that a company that makes the most stylish and well built phones is struggling. They probably know they are to blame themselves for falling behind customers demands. They come out with great phones only a year late. Look at W995. It would have been a fantastic phone had they released it just when they made it public. Now, 8MP camera phones are normal with Samsung and LG releasing them in several models.
And touch screen phones are the only growing segment and SE looks clueless in that arena. They came out with Xperia which had everything going nice except that they made the screen way too narrow for that resolution. Making the fonts tiny and almost useless for touch use. You need to use a stylus for most actions. They should have released another version of Windows Mobile around then with similarities to HTC Touch HD. Big screen and touch friendly interface. They missed that. Now, they annouced Idou with great hype like 4-6 months back.
Look at how many similar models will already be in the market before it comes out. N97, 5800, Samsung Omnia HD. All these three will feel mostly similar with S60 v5 edition. Which I felt sucked on 5800. So, they will come out with Idou when everyone already is looking for something better than the silly touch interface S50 5th edition has.
They should come out with their own A200 version for touch screens. Copy the best from iPhone OS, Windows Mobile, and S60.
Simple clean interface, nice multi-media, excellent excellent MP3 media player, active standby screen similar to Window Mobile, a great touch screen browser (can use Opera help here or Mozilla), and something new no cell phone yet has.
One good feature to think of to target active lifestyle segment is to include some sort of heart rate moitor, pedometer kind of stuff.
Set new benchmarks for the market to copy you. That should be SE.
“The other one is a biggie, and it's something very noticeable in the videos: touch sensitivity is pretty bad. Using the virtual keyboard proved to be far too painful, and we're pretty sure it wasn't multitouch-friendly.”
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Too bad that a company that makes the most stylish and well built phones is struggling. They probably know they are to blame themselves for falling behind customers demands. They come out with great phones only a year late. Look at W995. It would have been a fantastic phone had they released it just when they made it public. Now, 8MP camera phones are normal with Samsung and LG releasing them in several models.
And touch screen phones are the only growing segment and SE looks clueless in that arena. They came out with Xperia which had everything going nice except that they made the screen way too narrow for that resolution. Making the fonts tiny and almost useless for touch use. You need to use a stylus for most actions. They should have released another version of Windows Mobile around then with similarities to HTC Touch HD. Big screen and touch friendly interface. They missed that. Now, they annouced Idou with great hype like 4-6 months back.
Look at how many similar models will already be in the market before it comes out. N97, 5800, Samsung Omnia HD. All these three will feel mostly similar with S60 v5 edition. Which I felt sucked on 5800. So, they will come out with Idou when everyone already is looking for something better than the silly touch interface S50 5th edition has.
They should come out with their own A200 version for touch screens. Copy the best from iPhone OS, Windows Mobile, and S60.
Simple clean interface, nice multi-media, excellent excellent MP3 media player, active standby screen similar to Window Mobile, a great touch screen browser (can use Opera help here or Mozilla), and something new no cell phone yet has.
One good feature to think of to target active lifestyle segment is to include some sort of heart rate moitor, pedometer kind of stuff.
Set new benchmarks for the market to copy you. That should be SE.
Thank you.