(keitai-l) Re: korean handset subsidies

From: Tom <tom_at_qcast.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: 04/04/02
Message-ID: <02b201c1db66$015cf160$660487d9@towertwo>
This site give details of some of the latest phones released this
month.
Colour seems a must.
http://www.3g.co.uk/3GNewestPhones.htm

Tom Pen

----- Original Message -----
From: Marc Printz <Marc.Printz@724.com>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 6:39 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: korean handset subsidies


:
: What I see in Korea is that phones are still much smaller than
average
: japanese phones. The competition there has been much more around
size than
: in Japan apparently, and this had some adverse effect on the
screen-sizes
: and -quality for that matter. Or: small size was easier to achieve
at a good
: price than great features. I haven't had a very recent look around
but I
: suspect screens are still very small compared to Japan (likely not
bigger
: than e.g. the screen of an Ericsson T68) and I suspect there are no
TFT 65k
: color screens yet either.
:
: > -----Original Message-----
: > From: dc [mailto:dc@gamelet.com]
: > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 5:20 AM
: > To: Keitai-L
: > Subject: (keitai-l) korean handset subsidies
: >
: >
: >
: > Handset subsidies are illegal in korea - perhaps part of the
: > reason the
: > phones are still so pathetic (mostly B+W) despite the
: > excellent 1X network
: > infra.
: >
: > BTW the samsung phone sprint will be selling in july in the US is
: > *awesome* - color, small, stylish, fast java, rumored sub
: > $200 price point
: > at launch.
: >
:
:
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Received on Thu Apr 4 02:12:24 2002