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Questions about price of SEs from a newbie (W900)
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Posted by: kkjeanne

HI~ I am new to this forum~~ I've been looking through this forum for the past couple days now and found it very useful~ I have some questions so I decided I should register and ask all you knowledgables~

I am interested in getting W900 now, but the price is relatively high....I live in Canada, and the local stores here sell for $780Can....I asked around some of my fds who have some knowledge about cells and they suggest me wait for a little while longer because their price drop really fast when new models are out....so, here are some questions I would like to ask so that will help my decision making...

1) How much a drop is expected in SEs? How about for W900? I was told it may drop as much as $200Can.

2) What is the trend of SE price dropping? Do they drop the price as the instant the new SEs are out? Or do they take some while? If so, how long?

I noticed that there will be three phones out in the 2Q in which two of them are targeting the business market, the other one seems to have less function of W900 (or are their even more?).

3) So, will other phones for different target market also make the price of W900 drop? or it will only drop when W950 is out?

4) Since the new phones are comming out in the 2Q, I wonder how soo? Is it expected in April? mid April or even May or mid May?

I am interested to get it ASAP...so I wouldn't want to wait too long...but if price will drop in April, I might consider waiting just a bit longer....

Thanks everyone!!
Maki

Posted by: Havo

Well the thing is there isn't any new SE models coming out to succeed the W900... The K610 is the next 3G phone they are releasing and it's a abr phone and it's not as high end as the W900. The price of the W900 might drop w/ the release of the W810 but then again it may only be a very little drop. It usually takes a couple months for a phone to drop drastically in price... I've never seen a phone drop $200 at one time before. Take a look at the K750... It was about $500cdn close to its release date and when the W800 came out it only dropped slightly if even. K750's are still like $350-400 for a brand new one and it's been like 6 months since it came out. I think you're gonna ahfta wait a bit to get a new one. I know easycell has the black W900 for $760 no tax if you pay in cash. As for the white one the raised the price and it's at $810...

Posted by: kkjeanne

oh ic~~ Thanks for the info~ oh yeah, I jsut remember about w810....if I am right, it is exactly the same except it's like a less version of w900 isn't it? So when is it comming out?

Maki

Posted by: Havo

It should be out sometime in march. It's more like a W800 than a W900. It's basically a W800 with 850 and a couple other small things.

Posted by: 5abSingh

what stores in canada (more specifically toronto) are selling the w900? im looking to pick one up cause i hate my current phone.

Posted by: mikehole

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Originally Posted by 5abSingh

what stores in canada (more specifically toronto) are selling the w900? im looking to pick one up cause i hate my current phone.

http://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=63

Posted by: kkjeanne

pacific mall has a lot of them, except their prices are still rocket high...i just got myself a sharp, decided to wait until W900 drop their price first b4 i buy...