Oh really? Why would that be, Harald?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Pfffff weeeeel I don't know. Maybe international affairs will have your thoughts on other things in MAY for example. Maybe it's going to be a really hot early spring. Don't know. Could be loads of reasons.
(PS don't make me come round your place and pash your head in with a trowel)
Here's a link to <a href="http://www.infosync.no/news/2002/n/3078.html"; target="_blank">infoSync's Z1010 preview</a> for those of you who, like me, missed it earlier. In terms of form-factor, I actually prefer it over both the T68i and the P800. As I continue to ponder my mobile phone choices, I find that I am favoring phone-style devices over PDA-style devices.
<strong>399 UKP is not cheap. But it could still be worth it. I wonder how much Apple's hypothetical iPhone would cost.
Escher</strong><hr></blockquote>
you're right -- 399 UK pounds is *not* cheap! its bloody expensive to use a 3G network which in the UK is only covering selected cities, and if you go out of range you get dropped down to a 'standard' connection...
<strong>its bloody expensive to use a 3G network which in the UK is only covering selected cities, and if you go out of range you get dropped down to a 'standard' connection...</strong><hr></blockquote>
At least you Britons have 3G networks. Here in the US GSM coverage is still woefully inadequate ouside "selected cities."
<strong>BTW: My brother-in-law is attending the congress in Cannes. I'll quiz him upon his return.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Well, here's what my brother-in-law had to say:
[quote]The Sony [Z1010] won't be available in the States for at least another year. I would wait a few months as there are several new GSM phones that are scheduled to be introduced the first half of this year in the U.S. for AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile, and Cingular that will work in Europe and have Bluetooth... [T]he most advanced GSM phone with Bluetooth on the U.S. market, which is the Sony Ericsson T68i, is a little bit dated. (emphasis added)<hr></blockquote>
My question is this: Do I get a free T68i now to get started? Or do I wait to get mobile with one of those new phones?
Sony Ericssson's official website only features a pictures embedded in a Flash page. So nobody has posted in-line images of the Z1010 yet. So I figured I'd do a Google search and post some images myself.
I love this phone. But since it won't be avvailable in the US for at least another year, I'll have to find some other device to tide me over.
I really wish the Z1010 would be headed to US shores much sooner... It's the exact combination of practical functionality and exciting geeky features that I am looking for in my next mobile phone.
Well, apart from the size - which I have major issues with - the Z1010 is an amazingly well-spec'ed phone.
I wouldn't hold your hopes up on it ever reaching the US, though ... I don't see 3G coverage being available in other than a couple of test-areas. There wouldn't be any justification for releasing it here.
Let's just see what SonyEricsson release tomorrow, though.
<strong>Let's just see what SonyEricsson release tomorrow, though. </strong><hr></blockquote>
Yup. Waiting another day is bearable. But then I'll have to get moving and buy a mobile phone. At this point I'm just ready get with the action. Waiting will always get you newer better fancier tech-gizmos. But at a certain point the waiting reaches its limits! I'm close to having had enough.
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I just can't believe it's already almost a year old and we still can't get it here in the US.
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Well, it was shown a year ago, but just went on sale recently. I keep seeing the end of February for German availability.
Makes me wonder when we'll be able to get our mitts on the Z1010.
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Well, it was shown a year ago, but just went on sale recently. I keep seeing the end of February for German availability.
Makes me wonder when we'll be able to get our mitts on the Z1010.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Ummm I think you may be distracted from that fellow come Summer.
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Ummm I think you may be distracted from that fellow come Summer.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Oh really? Why would that be, Harald?
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Oh really? Why would that be, Harald?</strong><hr></blockquote>
Pfffff weeeeel I don't know. Maybe international affairs will have your thoughts on other things in MAY for example. Maybe it's going to be a really hot early spring. Don't know. Could be loads of reasons.
(PS don't make me come round your place and pash your head in with a trowel)
Also note Harald's <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=003101"; target="_blank">Purely hypothetical iPhone thread</a> in Future Hardware.
Escher
I hope T-Mobile picks this thing up...I might be interested in it
assuming it doesn't suck like the T68
and by thses phones I mean Sony Ericsson Z1010 3G phone.
flick.
<strong>and how much Do these phones Cost?
and by thses phones I mean Sony Ericsson Z1010 3G phone.
flick.</strong><hr></blockquote>
going to be in this sort of price range in the UK i expect
<a href="http://www.three.co.uk/explore/howmuch/handsets.omp"; target="_blank">http://www.three.co.uk/explore/howmuch/handsets.omp</a>;
Escher
<strong>399 UKP is not cheap. But it could still be worth it. I wonder how much Apple's hypothetical iPhone would cost.
Escher</strong><hr></blockquote>
you're right -- 399 UK pounds is *not* cheap! its bloody expensive to use a 3G network which in the UK is only covering selected cities, and if you go out of range you get dropped down to a 'standard' connection...
tsk!
<img src="graemlins/hmmm.gif" border="0" alt="[Hmmm]" />
<strong>its bloody expensive to use a 3G network which in the UK is only covering selected cities, and if you go out of range you get dropped down to a 'standard' connection...</strong><hr></blockquote>
At least you Britons have 3G networks.
Escher
I just got a Samsung V205 which I like but I'd trade it in a second for that Sony Ericsson model!
<strong>BTW: My brother-in-law is attending the congress in Cannes. I'll quiz him upon his return.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Well, here's what my brother-in-law had to say:
[quote]The Sony [Z1010] won't be available in the States for at least another year. I would wait a few months as there are several new GSM phones that are scheduled to be introduced the first half of this year in the U.S. for AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile, and Cingular that will work in Europe and have Bluetooth... [T]he most advanced GSM phone with Bluetooth on the U.S. market, which is the Sony Ericsson T68i, is a little bit dated. (emphasis added)<hr></blockquote>
My question is this: Do I get a free T68i now to get started? Or do I wait to get mobile with one of those new phones?
According to New in the <a href="http://forums.appleinsider.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=8&t=000644"; target="_blank">T610 thread</a>, we'll see the first such phone tomorrow, Tuesday, March 4.
Escher
I love this phone. But since it won't be avvailable in the US for at least another year, I'll have to find some other device to tide me over.
Escher
<a href="http://mobiledreams.free.fr/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=55"; target="_blank">Z1010 Live Pictures</a>
Notice the photo of it next to the P800.
The Z1010 is enormous.
<a href="http://mobiledreams.free.fr/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=55"; target="_blank">Z1010 Live Pictures</a>
Notice the photo of it next to the P800.
The Z1010 is enormous.
I really wish the Z1010 would be headed to US shores much sooner... It's the exact combination of practical functionality and exciting geeky features that I am looking for in my next mobile phone.
Escher
I wouldn't hold your hopes up on it ever reaching the US, though ... I don't see 3G coverage being available in other than a couple of test-areas. There wouldn't be any justification for releasing it here.
Let's just see what SonyEricsson release tomorrow, though.
<strong>Let's just see what SonyEricsson release tomorrow, though.
Yup. Waiting another day is bearable. But then I'll have to get moving and buy a mobile phone. At this point I'm just ready get with the action. Waiting will always get you newer better fancier tech-gizmos. But at a certain point the waiting reaches its limits! I'm close to having had enough.
Escher