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What do you guys think? I think Ericsson wld have been a much betta phone if they had merged with nokia instead of sony...Sony is relatively new to the phone market whereas Nokia has been ard for a long time...
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Posted: 2002-08-30 09:33:00
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I dont think it wouldve worked, cos ericsson and nokia have different views on the market. Good thought though, i wonder what might have happened if they did that?! Chris www.plusmedia.tk This post was posted from a T65
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Posted: 2002-08-30 09:39:00
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well nokia cld have helped out ericsson with the software and who knows ericsson might share some of nokia's positive pts such as 4000+ colour screen,polyphonic ringtones and user friendly software.And in return nokia cld share many of ericsson's high tech features.They both benefit frm each other
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Posted: 2002-08-30 09:44:00
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Hmmm good point. Only 2 problems: 1: the competition in the market would go because the two main companies had merged, and 2: what the hell would they be called? Erinok? Nokiaericsson? Lol :-) chris www.plusmedia.tk This post was posted from a T65
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Posted: 2002-08-30 09:51:00
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I'm not sure that Nokia would have been a good
merge-partner.

N. has a so much larger slice of the market ~35% versus Ericsson's ~5% that I think that the Ericsson brand would just disappear and Nokia would have continued with business as usual happily knowing that there would be one competitor less...
And for the use of Ericsson technology, I think that there would be a great risk for the "not invented here" syndrome

/H
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Posted: 2002-08-30 10:01:00
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Sony have maybe been in the market for longer than you realise. The first mobile phone that I got back in 1992 was a Sony. That was at a time when the biggest UK electrical retailer (Dixons) only sold one mobile phone model - and this was it! I agree that Sony weren't making "type 3" business phones in the 1980s like Nokia and Ericsson, but these were such different machines.

Imagine what the P800 might have been like if it was NokiaEricsson not SonyEricsson. No jog dial, no memory expansion, maybe no touch sensitive screen. Instead, it'd probably have changeable covers and a screen that'd keep failing. Hmmm...
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Posted: 2002-08-30 10:05:00
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just thinking of it gives me the jitters!
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Posted: 2002-08-30 10:43:00
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nokia will just transfer bugs to Ericsson instead of technology
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Posted: 2002-08-30 11:30:00
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According to this article in Swedish Mobil, is Ericsson quite prepared to stop the co-operation with Sony if it is not profitable within the next few quarters...

http://www.mobil.se/nyheter/visa.asp?id=5544&sid=1

/H
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Posted: 2002-08-30 11:46:00
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On 2002-08-30 11:46, Oblomov wrote:
According to this article in Swedish Mobil, is Ericsson quite prepared to stop the co-operation with Sony if it is not profitable within the next few quarters...

http://www.mobil.se/nyheter/visa.asp?id=5544&sid=1

/H


If it does so, then Ericsson won't survive for too long. Its already under huge loss and continues to be a loss making business.
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Posted: 2002-08-30 11:49:00
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