On Tuesday 24 July 2007 01:21, Giles Jones wrote: > On 24 Jul 2007, at 00:09, Nkoli wrote: > > Nokia are a brand, along with Samsung and Sony Ericsson they own the > market. It's unrealistic to think this phone can get huge market > share. Simply because you won't have the major operators selling them > on contract. > > Until operators are pushing them and people know what the brand means > (ie, reputation) it's going to be a phone for people in the know.
I'm not sure about the rest of europe, but in the Netherlands it's fairly normal to go to a shop and purchase whatever phone you want together with whatever contract you want. The phone shop will simply get a provision for each contract sold and use this to discount the phones they sell. This results in lists like this: http://www.gsmweb.nl/tmobile/index_toestel.htm You really don't need anything from an operator to get on that list, when there is demand for a phone it will can be sold both with and without contracts. Overhere FIC needs to get these resellers on board, not the operators. AVee _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
