Paul,
Both Ericsson and Nokia are huge in Japan, not in handsets but in the
network infrastructure.
Nokia had an i-mode PDC phone that was quite buggy. Maybe they hired just
2-3 people for a month who did the job ;-)
Nokia will bet on 3G phones that can also be used in the Japanese market
(see J-Phone 3G handset 6650 from Nokia).
SonyEricsson is (still) active in marketing handsets in Japan.
Arjen
ab@104.com
At 01:43 03/03/12 +0900, you wrote:
> Hi all;
>
> My perspective is that if Nokia and Siemans have some
>decent technical people, put them in Japan or Europe and
>give them a month, I think they could build an imode emulator
>for their phones. I-mode isn't a big hulking scary thing after all.
>cHTML is no big deal. It just depends how many other i-mode
>related things they want to support like ringtones, i-appli
>and other stuff. But I think if they just hire 10 good technical
>people and give them 1 month, it would be no problem
>to get a nice bug-free imode thing for their phones.
>
> I think both Siemanns and Nokia could do that. The question
>is will they do that or decide to hire only 2 or 3 people and
>put out a junky imode thing for their phones.
>
> There are lots of smart people out there on the job hunt,
>(not me though), and it shouldn't be hard to find and hire them.
>
> What I don't understand is why they haven't done it
>earlier and why they aren't in the Japanese market already.
>Nokia is huge in the USA.
>
> I saw Ericcson not do too well in Japan though, but it looked
>to me that it was because they just paid all their employees
>way higher salaries than they needed to so that they weren't
>profitable, and thus had some problems. I wish they would have
>done better. Everyone I knew liked those old ER20X phones.
>A friend there told me they were working on the ER503i but I
>never saw it come to market.
>
>-Paul Lester
>paul@thetamusic.com
>
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Received on Wed Mar 12 16:26:12 2003