At 05:15 2001-03-16, you wrote:
>Japanese GSM handsets don't sell well in Europe b/c Japanese manufacturers
>don't
>really care that much just yet.
>For most handset makers, GSM handsets are a tiny part of their handset
>business,
>itself a small part of a larger business. Remember Japanese handset makers
>are NEC,
>Fujitsu, Panasonic, etc. whose main business is not cell phones. So for a
>Japanese
>maker to do enough R&D to make decent enough GSM handsets and market
>enough and get
>connected to sales channels, etc. enough to have reasonable sales in
>Europe, it
>wouldn't be financially tenable.
There will be Japanese phones before that. Some where expected to being
displayed at CeBIT, but were unsurprisingly delayed...
The uninterest is valid for some of the manufacturers, but not all. Some of
those who have tried the hardest have performed relatively seen the worst.
Panasonic is one example. They simple make odd GSM phones with a Japanese
touch, but not the technology, and fairly strange feature sets.
Mitsubishi's Trium brand is almost a European brand not performing that
well either.
See more at http://www.mcuk.panasonic.co.uk/ (currently offline) and
http://www.trium.net
>However when they can leverage all their wCDMA knowledge, economies of
>scale, etc.
>and sell 3G handsets for domestic Japan pretty much as-is in Europe...then
>Nokia
>needs to watch out.
Yes, but probably before that...
It is becoming easier all the time to build a GSM phone. There are so much
components available.
/gustaf
>r e n
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>Petri Ojala wrote:
>
> > This can be very true for the US but doesn't explain the poor
> performance of
> > Japanese GSM manufacturers in Europe.
> >
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Received on Sun Mar 18 13:03:34 2001