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Posted by: jorijori

I hope Ericsson's management will read this. IMO, Ericsson has an opportunity to regain cell phone market share with the release of P800 in the North America and Europe by pricing it attractive enough and bundling it HBH-30 bluetooth headset. Potential buyers are all PDA users who now have to carry both phones and PDA. Price it around US$ 500-600 included with HBH-30 and run an ad campaign in Fortune, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, etc. and Ericsson will once again rule the cell phone market in the world.

Posted by: anti

you can be sure SE reads nearly every topic in every forum. of course they will change/adapt their marketing strategies regarding your suggestions.

Posted by: oneeyejack

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Originally posted by anti
you can be sure SE reads nearly every topic in every forum. of course they will change/adapt their marketing strategies regarding your suggestions.

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Posted by: WoeDee

BTW: There IS a P800 subthread you know.

Posted by: cnolan

I disagree. First, it's too bad they couldn't have made this with the Palm OS. There are 15,000+ programs for that system. I don't know how many for Symbian, but not that many, and it doesn't have the support. None of the Palm OS phones out are attractve, but this one would have been. But, since I'm a 2 device kinda guy, I probably won't be switching.

Posted by: mebiuspower

PalmOS is for newbies who don't know how much advantages other PDA OS out there offers.

Symbian is the best mobile OS platform out there period.

Using a Palm makes me feel like I went back to pre-year 2000.

Posted by: jeffharris

Well, cnolam, that is a valid point.

But, as I may have mentioned before, there areally are 2 different users of PDA's and phones. The first group, who wants all the advantages of a Palm or PPC PDA, with all the apps, bells and whistles, as well as a phone, and the second group, who wants a basic PDA over and above the phone. Essentially, I mean a phone like a PPC phone, or Palm phone, is a PDA first with the added functionality of a phone. And that's for the first group I mention. Then there is the P800, which is essentially a phone, with a PDA on top of it, for the second group.

I find that 75% or more of the functions I used on my iPaq, and then Clie, are present on the P800 -- camera (from Clie) e-mail, Outlook, Document storage, MP3 and video playback, and Internet. OK, a lot of the fun and interesting apps that Palm has are not available for the P800 yet, but the core functions are there. Plus, on the game front, there are a few nice games already, with that frontier growing fastest for Symbian

I, for one, am happier with having one GREAT phone, with very nice core PDA functionality.

Oh, and PS -- Symbian is a FAR better platform for power consumption that Palm or PPC.

Posted by: WoeDee

I personally wouldn't go back to using any Palm OS device.

"Using a Palm makes ME feel like I went back to pre-year 2000."

Posted by: AdmiralAK

lol @ palm

The palm OS is soooo out-dated that it makes me laugh

The ONLY company that even tries to make the palmOS hip and new and FUNCTIONAL is sony with its free clie add ons

I would NEVER use palm unless it pulled a hard 180 on its hardware AND Operating System and it brought both to the 21st century