Part 1

masih X1 manjadi idaman ku nih

tapi klo inget2 rumor mengenai pricenya jadi agak pingin selingkuh

kok perasaan makin hari model2nya HP SE jadi mirip2 semua yah

lama2 Xperia bisa tergusur dengan beritanya PSP phone.
karena terlalu lama.

@TRO

Tidaaaaakkkk!!!!!! Matakuuuu!!!!! Sakiiittt!!!!!

Sekedar informasi,

Feng = S302 versi Walkman, kemungkinan dengan kamera VGA.

Remi = W890 versi generik.

Hecaro = slider, memori internal 8GB + slot ekspansi M2.

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WhiteEye said:
Hecaro = slider, memori internal 8GB + slot ekspansi M2.

Gila, kalo dipasang memory 8gb lagi total bisa nyampe 16gb donk, keren neghhhh.

maknyos pisan...bisa 16 GB..wah convertan miyabi gw bisa masuk semua dong wakakakak..moga2 layarnya lebar seeh hecaro tee he he

SE kok jadi suka desain back cover walkmannya aneh2 yah...
btw, setuju nih ma jones..desainnya makin hari makin mirip2...

ati2 ntar kyk merk sebelah yg penjualannya turun terus krn desainnya itu2 aja..

Linda a.k.a. W595

Sekedar info....

X1 kemungkinan dirilis sekitar bulan Oktober - Desember 2008.

Alicia udah punya index resmi : W707.

Linda (W595) dikabarkan punya masalah keypad juga seperti W580/S500 -- tahu kan? RETAK -- katanya SE memang tahu mengenai masalah ini dan saat ini sedang menimbang2 apakah akan merilisnya apa adanya (???) atau menundanya untuk perbaikan dulu sebelum dirilis. Pemikiran yang aneh.

Patty udah punya index resmi : W902. Thread khusus W902 udah dibuat sama novarli.

Akhirnya teka teki mengapa Paris sama Beibei, perilisanya ditunda atau mungkin juga dicancled.

Majalah selular yang terbaru berjudul Handphone, memberitakan bahwa kemungkinan Symbian akan diakusisi dengan Nokia. Paris dan Beibei memakai sistem UIQ 3.

Jadi intinya Symbian akan menjadi milik resmi Nokia, jika tidak ada perubahan.

Lalu bagaimana dengan SE?

Di situs [tautan dihapus], kemungkinan HTC akan bekerja sama dengan SE.

[tautan dihapus]

Hasil produknya adalah Xperia.

Aku terus terang berharap agar Xperia tidak cepat2 dirilis. Karena mungkin ada tambahan atau perbaikan bug sana sini, dan Xperia akan menjadi salah satu PDA or smart phone yang canggih mengalahkan Touch Pro atau Omnia.

So mungkin bisa jadi, perang baru.

NokiaSymbian Vs SE Windows Mobile.

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chen71281 said:
Akhirnya tanda tanya mengapa Paris sama Beibei, perilisanya ditunda atau mungkin juga dicancled.

Majalah selular yang berjudul Handphone, memberitakan bahwa kemungkinan Symbian akan diakusisi dengan Nokia. Paris dan Beibei memakai sistem UIQ 3.

Jadi intinya Symbian akan menjadi milik resmi Nokia, jika tidak ada perubahan.

Beritanya kurang nyambung sebenarnya.
Yang jelas Paris sama Beibei itu dicancel karena keduanya masih menggunakan hardware lama (setara dengan P990/P1/M600/W950/G700/G900) yang kayanya bakal menimbulkan banyak masalah seandainya dipaksakan menggunakan UIQ 3.3. (bukan UIQ 3 saja karena UIQ 3 atau UIQ 3.0 adalah seperti yang sekarang ada di produk2 smartphone SE).

Symbian diakuisisi sama Nokia itu bukan kemungkinan tapi sudah jadi kenyataan, beritanya pernah ada di thread ini dan juga di thread Informasi Umum Seputar SE.
System operasi Symbian nantinya akan disamakan, gak ada lagi yang namanya UIQ, S60, ataupun MOAP.
Nokia dan para konsortium anggota Symbian membentuk Symbian Foundation untuk mewujudkan hal ini.

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chen71281 said:
Lalu bagaimana dengan SE?
Di situs [tautan dihapus], kemungkinan HTC akan bekerja sama dengan SE.
[tautan dihapus]
Hasil produknya adalah Xperia-

SE "membeli" HTC itu rumor yang udah lama banget deh. Dan kayanya gak bener.
XPERIA itu bukan produk dari "SE-membeli-HTC" seperti berita di atas, yang jelas XPERIA X1 (saat ini baru ada 1 produk dalam sub-brand XPERIA yaitu X1) akan di-manufacture oleh HTC.

CMIIW.

kenapa keypadnya ga dibuat dari bahan yg bagus dari awal2...? begemana sih SE

Mungkin juga itu benar, tapi IMHO mungkin karena akusisi Nokia dengan Symbian, mungkin Sony batalin Paris sama Beibei.

Kalau tidak Sony harus bayar royalti ke Nokia, karena menggunakan symbian.

Benar begitu?-----> ini hanya opiniku saja.

Aku tidak pernah bilang SE beli HTC tapi kerja sama.

Di artikel juga sudah menyebutkan, itu hanya rumor belaka, tapi kerja sama yah.

Cek : I (SE) Music Reborn

Yang bakal diumumkan di tanggal 22 Juli 2008 :
- Feng (W302)
- Linda (W585/W595)
- Patty (W902)

Alicia (W707) ---> Cancelled.

Fotonya udah nyebar kemana2, gak surprise lagi dah pas tgl 22 july nanti, hahaha.

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Marty said:
Fotonya udah nyebar kemana2, gak surprise lagi dah pas tgl 22 july nanti, hahaha.

Emang gak ada surprise akhir2 ini... yang C905 aja udah nyebar duluan sebelum announcement tuh.

Apalagi announcement Walkman kali ini gak ada yang istimewa.

ho oh...ho oh... nothing special

Menjelang announcement "khusus Walkman" tanggal 22 Juli nanti, ada 2 hal yang kurang menggembirakan :

1. Preview W302, W585, W902 dari mobile-review
Ketiga seri Walkman yang akan diumumkan tersebut udah dibuat ulasan singkat -- semacam preview -- oleh Eldar dari situs [tautan dihapus].
Gak ada satupun yang bagus dari ulasan ketiga handphone tersebut.

2. Laporan Finansial Q2 2008 yang jelek (rugi)
Bisa dicek di sini : Sony Ericsson reports second quarter results

1. Preview W302, W585, W902 dari mobile-review

Sony Ericsson W302 – fashion for a penny

There is not much I can say about this phone. I could paint a picture of how great it is to demote a long in the tooth phone to the middle segment by changing its index. The recipe is very simple – take one Sony Ericsson W880i, strip it of all top-notch materials and metallic accents (they are expensive, right?), but keep the design intact and leave some features in there too. Naturally, some “vital” updates are in order, but don’t include the Walkman 3.0 player – a phone that goes for just shy of 200 Euro doesn’t really need it. And voila – you get the W302 that is due out this fall along with an “imaging-savvy” handset – the S302.

Will it generate substantial sales? I doubt that – the Nokia 6300’s lead in this segment has been undisputed lately; what is more its price keeps getting lower. But Sony Ericsson shouldn’t miss this opportunity to try their luck – after all, Russian roulette is just another way of running business.

Sony Ericsson W585i – same problems, new wrapping

Having fixed the keypad issue in the Sony Ericsson W580i, for some reason the manufacturer made the same mistake with the W585i (Linda) that is to replace it. I don’t know if they will change all faulty keypads, being aware of this problem, before these units reach retail stores or if Sony Ericsson will opt to let irritated owners crowd around service centers. Anyhow it will be very interesting to see the outcome.

The W585i is set to land in most regions in late August or early in September at a price point of 350 Euro, which is way too much. However the W580i was no different in terms of price and still managed to find a niche of its own and picked up a lot of followers along the way as its price kept falling down. The question is, what new features and attractions does the W585i bring to the table? First and foremost, it’s a 3G-enabled handset; secondly the loudspeaker is now mounted on the top edge, plus its volume has been boosted quite a bit. Then there is a 3.2 Mpix camera, which is pretty average in terms of image quality. All up, compared to the Nokia 5610 XpressMusic, the W585i pales as a music playing offering, but we'll get to that later in this preview.

On the downside, the W585i utilizes cheap plastic, and its dark color schemes don’t look particularly appealing (although the white-and-red edition is pretty neat). Sadly, Sony Ericsson is trying to cut costs in every possible way these days in an effort to boost its profits, hence the W585i’s subpar plastic (which is way worse than that employed in the W580i). So it came as no surprise when my dark-grey prototype lost its pristine conditions in a couple of months. What’s worse, they are very unlikely to rectify this issue – Sony Ericsson prefers not to waste its time and resources on nonsense like that these days.

The handset’s software is nothing to write home about – same A200 with Walkman 3.0, FM-radio, bog-standard applications and Google Maps. Unfortunately, no sporty applications or hardware – truly, why would they bring about a competitor to their Sony Ericsson C702, it’s always better to make your portfolio as clear-cut as possible. But in my opinion it’s complete nonsense – a lot of consumers went for the W585i’s predecessor largely because of its pedometer. But apparently Sony Ericsson know better what we really need.

The W585i is a pretty late call, since the Nokia 5610 has been around for ages and its price has been on a downswing of late. And while the W585i will go for 50-80 Euros more, it won’t have much to offer – the 5610 already trumps it in terms of player functionality, camera and sales package. This way, the future of the Sony Ericsson W585i appears to be vaporous at best; but probably they haven’t thought about it much, releasing the remake of a marginally popular device. Hello? I can see no owners of the W580i lining up for such a steep upgrade.

Sony Ericsson W902 – it should’ve been cancelled

What is a music playing flagship phone these days? Many put sound quality above all other things, since decent sonic experience can’t be delivered by a phone’s default processor and a handful of software enhancements, such as equalizers. To make a true music playing marvel you’ll need a dedicated DSP that will handle the audio department or at least an amplifier that will also make things look significantly better. However, Sony Ericsson has a different point of view with its Walkman line-up and probably thinks its competitors are into some nonsense with dedicated audio processors. This way, Nokia really shouldn’t arm its XpressMusic phones with the AIC33 chip – it only beefs up the tab and very few will actually appreciate the quality it delivers, which is a bit of an excess for a secondary feature like music. For some reason Samsung also focus on music, but it’s some sort of mistake too, apparently.

Another question that still remains unanswered, is whether a handset needs a 3.5mm jack or not in 2008. But then users will be able to user custom earphones and will figure out the difference in audio quality! So no, 3.5mm aren’t welcome in mobile phones. Interestingly, on some markets original Sony Ericsson’s accessories are incredibly thin on the ground – for instance, in Russia after spending just shy of 200 USD I still don’t have an original headset. Indeed, three are tons of pretty good fakes out there, but that’s about it – stuff like this goes for a couple of bucks in China, here they sell it for 50. Nice business!

The thing they are really banking on is that the W902 is a music-playing solution with whole 8 Gb of memory onboard. But what they keep mum on is that this phone runs good old A200 and carries around 152 Mb of memory. So these hyped 8Gb will come from a memory card packaged with the handset, which is a pretty good move, that counters a similar offering from Nokia whose release is slotted for the same time (although it hasn't been announced yet).

The W902’s camera module is nothing to write home about, as it has been carried over from the Sony Ericsson C902 along with auto-focus and LED flash. Its 2.2-inch display is pretty decent and doesn’t get washed out in the sun. But the real question is price – retailing for 330 Euro at the minimum, the W902 will be a dead weight for the maker's portfolio. And the reason for that is pretty simple – that Nokia-branded phone will offer more punch for the same money: 3.5mm audio jack, dedicated DSP inside and an 8Gb memory card in the box along with a remote controls and Maps application. So I don’t really get it – what’s the point of stealing ideas from other phones that are obviously better than the W902. If you have picked up something, then go ahead, enhance it and sell for the same money. All in all, I’m supremely disappointed – Sony Ericsson is turning into an imitator, although it wasn’t that long ago when they were at the cutting edge of the industry. A pity, but it shouldn’t come as a surprise.

P.S. If some of you think that I’m being harsh in this write-up – you are spot on. I just can’t stand what they have done to one of the market’s finest line-up in no time after 5 years of development and hard work. They had a wake-up call back in 2007. Apparently, they didn’t hear it.

2. Laporan Finansial Q2 2008 yang jelek (rugi)

Dari Sony Ericsson Press Room :

Sony Ericsson reports second quarter results

18 July 2008

Q2 Highlights:

* Break even results amid challenging market conditions and increased competition
* Announcement of Open Mobile Software platform and Symbian Foundation
* R&D investment continues
* Alignment of operations to help restore profitable growth

London, UK - The consolidated financial summary for Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (Sony Ericsson) for the second quarter ended June 30, 2008 is as follows:

Units shipped in the quarter were 24.4 million, in line with our June 27, 2008 interim announcement of 24 million units. Sales for the quarter were Euro 2,820 million, a decrease of 9% compared to the second quarter of 2007 due to unfavourable exchange rate fluctuation, continued slowing market growth in mid- to high-end phones and increased competition. Gross margin also decreased compared with a year ago reflecting a less favourable product mix, with particular impact in Europe, and increased price competition in general. Income before taxes for the quarter decreased compared to the second quarter of 2007 for the same reasons, as well as due to higher R&D investments as a percentage of sales.

Average selling price (ASP) for Sony Ericsson decreased both sequentially and year-on-year due to the impact of a greater proportion of lower priced phones in the product portfolio, as well as increased price competition in the market for mid- to high-end phones. Market share for the second quarter is estimated to be around 8%.

During the second quarter Sony Ericsson announced seven new phones, including its first 8 Megapixel Cyber-shot™ model, the C905. In addition the company started shipping 12 new phones, including a number of mid- to high-end Cyber-shot™ and Walkman™ models toward the end of the quarter.

“We are aligning our operations and resources worldwide to meet an increasingly competitive business environment and to help restore our capability for profitable growth. The measures we are taking are aimed at becoming a faster, more agile and more cost efficient organisation that can continue to create innovative products that excite consumers,” said Dick Komiyama, President, Sony Ericsson. “Our target is to achieve a reduction in operating expenses of Euro 300 million annually, with the full effect expected to appear within a year. We estimate that our restructuring charges will be of the same magnitude as our reduction in operating expenses, and we will incur such charges as our measures are implemented.”

Sony Ericsson joined leading phone manufacturers, operators and vendors in announcing its support for the establishment of the Symbian Foundation, an initiative that will enable all members of the foundation to use the Symbian operating software platform, royalty-free. The Symbian Foundation is planned to be operational by the end of 2008.

Sony Ericsson forecasts that the global handset market for 2008 will grow at a rate of around 10% from more than 1.1 billion units in 2007, with continued decline in industry ASP. The majority of this growth is expected to be in emerging markets where lower priced phones dominate.

Challenging market conditions are expected to prevail for Sony Ericsson for at least the rest of 2008, and in particular for the third quarter.

Cyber-shot™ and WALKMAN™ are trademarks of Sony Corporation.

EDITOR’S NOTES:

Financial statements and additional information:

Financial statements:

Consolidated income statement (2)
Consolidated income statement – isolated quarters
Consolidated balance sheet
Consolidated statement of cash flows (2)
Consolidated statement of cash flows – isolated quarters

Additional information:

Net sales by market area by quarter

Sony Ericsson is a top global industry player with sales of over 100 million phones in 2007. Diversity is one of the core strengths of the company, with operations in over 80 countries including manufacturing in China and R&D sites in China, Europe, India, Japan and North America. Sony Ericsson was established as a 50:50 joint venture by Sony and Ericsson in October 2001, with global corporate functions located in London.

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This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve inherent risks and uncertainties. We have identified certain important factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in such forward-looking statements. For a detailed description of risk factors see Sony's and Ericsson's filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly each company's latest published Annual Report on Form 20-F.