On 7/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">AVee</b> <<a href="mailto:openmoko-comunity@avee.org">openmoko-comunity@avee.org</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tuesday 24 July 2007 01:21, Giles Jones wrote:<br>> On 24 Jul 2007, at 00:09, Nkoli wrote:<br>><br>> Nokia are a brand, along with Samsung and Sony Ericsson they own the<br>> market. It's unrealistic to think this phone can get huge market
<br>> share. Simply because you won't have the major operators selling them<br>> on contract.<br>><br>> Until operators are pushing them and people know what the brand means<br>> (ie, reputation) it's going to be a phone for people in the know.
<br><br>I'm not sure about the rest of europe, but in the Netherlands it's fairly<br>normal to go to a shop and purchase whatever phone you want together with<br>whatever contract you want. The phone shop will simply get a provision for
<br>each contract sold and use this to discount the phones they sell. This<br>results in lists like this: <a href="http://www.gsmweb.nl/tmobile/index_toestel.htm">http://www.gsmweb.nl/tmobile/index_toestel.htm</a><br><br>
You really don't need anything from an operator to get on that list, when<br>there is demand for a phone it will can be sold both with and without<br>contracts. Overhere FIC needs to get these resellers on board, not the
<br>operators.<br><br>AVee<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenMoko community mailing list<br><a href="mailto:community@lists.openmoko.org">community@lists.openmoko.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community">
http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community</a><br></blockquote></div><br>In Italy it's similar. I think it would be cool to have some sort of partnership with big chains like MediaWorld/MediaMarkt, or "official" operator Shops (they always have some sort of cooperation, and geting in there would mean to see the phone in 80% of the shops).
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