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I very much doubt that the k700i has been stopped.
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Posted: 2005-01-17 10:21:15
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No it hasn't. It would be stupid on SE's part if they were to do such a thing! The phone's growing in demand here in india. This message was posted from a T230
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Posted: 2005-01-17 10:27:36
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It wouldn't surprise me if production of K700 had been stopped; I don't know to much about manufacturing & marketing procedures, but modern assembly lines should put out a few thousend handsets a day, so they might very well have the next half year in sales already in stock & reconfigure the production lines for another model, which should take a few weeks.
Contrary to that I was pretty much surprised when they stopped building T610 only a few months ago, I would have guessed SE stopped production like a year ago & sold off old stocks.

But I like the thought of a new marketing strategy like not anouncing new models & making people wait for half a year, but anouncing it to the public the same time as actually putting it on sale.
Maybe this rumor is an indication for that...
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Posted: 2005-01-24 13:06:49
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it could be that they are just lowering down the number of K700 phones produced. cause they have a big stock left from earlyer productions. they calculated in T610 selling numbers. but they didn't even get 1/3 of those salles.
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Posted: 2005-01-24 13:20:34
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Surely if that were true then have made a big mistake allowing this to leak as it would put a lot of people off buying a model that has come to the end of it's production life already ?

I would want to know what they were replacing it with and wait for the newer model to come out. could end up having problems shifting k700 stock.

Even after launch it's replacement it would then make sense for the k700 to continue to be manufactured at ramped down production levels until they feel they have exhausted the demand as they have done with the T610 which according to this thread manufacturing has only recently been stopped.

It just seems too early for to have stopped K700 production.

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[ This Message was edited by: marlonski on 2005-01-24 13:03 ]
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Posted: 2005-01-24 14:01:13
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k7 is such a nice phone. I dont think theyll discontinue it. Atleast not YET This message was posted from a K700i
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Posted: 2005-01-24 14:04:45
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It could be like chinese whispers. The story gets changed. It could have started something like "Sony Ericsson don't make K700 anymore, only K700i"
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Posted: 2005-01-30 06:01:17
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On 2005-01-30 06:01:17, The_Nashy wrote:
It could be like chinese whispers. The story gets changed. It could have started something like "Sony Ericsson don't make K700 anymore, only K700i"


could be, i've encountered several circumstances that a rumour evolved into an entirely different context........
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Posted: 2005-02-08 17:47:54
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Hi everybody,
this is my first post at this great site; just wanted to provide one piece of information that might be a clue in the response for the k700i manufacturing question. I am from Egypt, and have been following up on k700i for quite some time in order to purchase it. At the end of January (might have been the 28th), I made an inquiry about the phone to the so-called service center. Then just after 8 days, meaning something like 10 days ago, I contacted almost all the points of sales selling the k700i, and strangely enough, EVERY ONE of these shops (including the service center) told me that they have run out of the k700i...
a bit, well may be more than just a bit SUSPICIOUS, isn't it?

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Posted: 2005-02-15 10:38:00
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Welcome to Esato. :-D I think, it might be a temporary shortage of stocks. Have you contacted them again? This message was posted from a T230
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Posted: 2005-02-15 10:44:49
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