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Well, you don’t have to take my word for it. Go see the mess for yourself:
=> 33 pages of bugs gathered by a hardened community at my-symbian.
=> 22 pages of bugs over at Esato.

I promised myself to refrain from writing about my Sony Ericsson P990i since it would work against my own short-term interests. Well, I cannot hold it back anymore.

I’ll put it short: I have never ever seen anything buggier than this phone. It is somewhere between laugable and useless. That hurts me. The whole idea is good. This could have been a killer phone and it still has potential to be if the developers working on it are allowed to finish their work. But take my word: It is pretty far from finished at this state.

What remains a mystery is:
=> How could SE announce this phone under “coming soon” in October 2005? (It wasn’t)
=> How could SE decide it was ready for the market in October 2006? (It isn’t)

Something must be pretty fucked up with the management and the whole development process over at Sony Ericsson.

The switch from Windows to Mac OS X that is. I have been thinking about doing just that for a while. But now I hesitate.

Here is the reason for my sudden hesitation:
http://beust.com/weblog/archives/000394.html
http://beust.com/weblog/archives/000398.html

I can’t stand bad usability and slow inconsistent UI:s. I will however be following Cedrics coming posts (to see whether things get better after the initial getting-used-to-something-new-period) on this issue. I realize that this is probably the very same road I will have to walk down if I eventually make the switch.

It is quite obvious to me: Sony Ericsson does not seem to be able to deliver. They are promoting new phones in a steady rate and the “soon coming”-list is growing and growing … but actual releases are rare. Take a look yourself.

Now wait a month and return to that page … the list of “soon coming” hasn’t decreased I can asure you. If anything, quite the opposite.

The thing that puzzles me the most is that Sony Ericsson does not seem to understand that this really pisses the customers of. On a more general plane they are really making the customers postpone their cellphone purchases: Potential customers who have been waiting for phone X which just did arrive will see that a much better phone is just 2 months away (at least that is what the SE-web says) why they rather wait some more. A lot of potential customers (or owner of still working but not so good SE-phones) are just hanging in the “well I wait some more“-loop.

In short: It would be way better for the brand Sony Ericsson if they only promoted phones not more than 2 weeks (at most) away. Take a look at Apple to get a sense of what I am talking about.

I have been waiting for the Sony Ericsson P990i for almost half a year now. It is postponed time after time. Now rumours says it won’t be in stores until October. Woohoo. And you know what. This means I will find something else. Maybe something not as good as the the P990i. But at least it got me out of the “well I guess I’ll have to wait some more”-loop.

Gah!

…or as some guy by name of Claes put it eloquently.