Gustaf Rosell wrote:
>
> Except for then Orange/Hutch, which have a version of the Sanyo phone also
> sold by SprintPCS in the US.
>
You are absolutionly right, I forgot about that one.
>
> It is working OK. It has similar drawbacks like in the US with a really bad
> OpenWave browser and absolutely no services that are adapted to its
> capabilities. It is also very high priced (something like 5.000 HKD, appr
> $650), which is not really according to the image of the network, as
> explained by Tony previously.
The Sanyo phone works and is as like as any other i-mode (minus the Java), but
I've never seen anyone using one and I do look. In comparison, Nokia's high-end
8850 debuted at over HK$8,000 over a year ago and people lined up to buy one. It
is still selling well at around HK$4,000, (see out-of-stock notice on Orange
site) and is easily visible everywhere you go in Hong Kong.
Just a few short years ago, people lined up and paid HK$10,000 for the right to
own the "old" StarTac (not the V-series which is much smaller in size) when it
first came out in Hong Kong. Only a couple of years ago, people did the same for
the silver Nokia 8810 and Motorola's V-series, at a slightly lower HK$9,000 a
piece. Last year they did the same with the Nokia 8850 at between HK$8,000 ? the
biggest operator at the time, Hongkong Telecom, actually had several thousand
people on a reservation list who actually put a deposit on the 8850 but still had
to wait three months to get their phone.
It's not the price of the phone. It's the network.
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Received on Thu Aug 9 12:25:42 2001