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iPhone without contract in Mexico

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Finally Telcel (America Móvil) put the iPhone on sale without a contract, on Sears and Sanborns (both stores propety of Grupo Carso which is also owner of America Móvil)

The price... well thinking of not having a 2 year contract in which you will be paying $70.00 usd per month plus extra charges (more minutes used or sms or data), well as I was saying the price is as follows:

- 16gb iPhone: $1,300.50 usd
- 8gb iPhone: $1,134.12 usd

Not being tied to a contract... priceless

By the way in the post paid plan you can have unlimited data per moth, you have to pay $53 usd to have that, which means, having that credit in your account and sending an SMS (don't remember the number) to activate the data.

I still think the iPhone is overpriced, overvalued, and not worth that. The only innovation it has is the screen, since "full browser" exists since Opera Mobile / Mini and Nokia Browser (actually based in webkit just like safari).

The Samsung Omnia 16gb costs $840.00 usd (in Mexico), and it does so much more than the iPhone and not tied to Apple restrictions in software (just go to handango.com or pocketgear.com to see), also there is the options of N81 and N95 with 8gb each from Nokia, far cheaper, and more powerful than the iPhone, and more software.

I'm keeping my Sony Ericsson W960i (8gb, 3.2mp camera, touch screen, office suite, 3G, Wifi, unlocked, untied, real bluetooth not crap like the iPhone) which by the way now costs $350.00 usd (in Mexico)

Sears Mexico Store
Mercado Libre (Mexican eBay)




The mobile of my dreams

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I fall in love... my more materialistic me is in love with mobiles, is the one thing I love (thing is the word here)

The new Sony Ericsson C905a announced for Mexico, it will be on sale in a few months... why I love it already, my other love is photography and this phone has a 8.1mp camera, xenon flash and media player, I like having a one device for all, instead of having a camera, a mobile and an mp3 player, why having each separatly if you can have them all together? By the way, this phone also has GPS!!

New guy in town

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In the mobile phone market Mexico is not that bad, it is still more expensive than other countries like USA or half of Europe, still with a market penetration of almost 70% it is a mature market, the bad thing is the providers:

- 80% of the market belongs to Telcel (America Movil)
- 10% is to Telefonica's Movistar (sucky coverage)
- 7% to Iusacell (Grupo Salinas cheaters at SEC) which is also Unefon (they merged) and they have bad coverage too
- 3% to NII or Nextel (which is not Sprint), the worst service, extremly expensive and the worst coverage ever.

Now there is a new player, I don't know if they had their own network or are renting others, it is MaxcomCel which is part of a small telecomm called Maxcom, they had presence (in all their services) in Puebla, Mexico City and Queretaro, but the mobile is in the entire country.

I'm beting they have their own network in their current cities and rent in the others. Still is not the best plan ever, they have only three phone models, all of them from the ubber ugly and useless Motorola.

But still is good that there are other players around. I just hope for better costs data and voice. I'm paying way to much for what I get.

I got a new mobile

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I got a Sony Ericsson W580 in December 2007, it got broke, they changed it to me for a new one, I forgot to tell that.

But later I found a new Sony Ericsson mobile the W960, touch screen 8Gb of memory and the new Walkman player, Wifi, 3G, bluetooth, it is a marvel. I bought it, it was cheaper than the N95 8gb, plus I got a lot of accessories from SE.



I find out that Sony Ericsson is now the number two brand in Mexico, and you can tell, everywhere you turn there is somebody with a Sony Ericsson, Nokia is the number one, Samsung and Motorola are disputing the third spot, other big brands in Mexico are Pantech (Korea), Skyzen (Korea), LG (Korea) and several super small brands including the Mexican Zonda. Seems that we like European and Korean handsets a lot, not a single Japanese brand is in top ten.

According to a survey 70% of Mexicans planned to changed their mobiles for a Sony Ericsson, due to the fame as MP3 players. I went to the USA border to buy the W960, and found it wasn't available there, then reading on the internet found out that SE in the USA is not that big, that we (Mexicans) get more models and the releases sooner than in the USA in the case of the SE, also in the US Motorola is the king, Nokia is like in third place or so, while in Europe is more like in Mexico, Nokia then SE.

My mobile died today...

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Please a minute of silence...

Ok, now a minute to yell at Sony Ericsson, my new mobile, which I bougth on december 4th this year, stopped working, just because, I plug it to put some song into it, and it never turned on again, dead, totally dead, don't know why, I didn't do anything.

Now everytime I tried to turn it on a red light blinks in the keypad, it doesn't charge, I removed the battery and put it again and doesn't work either.

WHY o WHY!

While looking for a solution on the web, which is useless, since all teh forums think everybody is an IT expert, using terms and giving answers like, "just flash it" can you please explain that... just flash it, I need a step by step thing.

By the way I found the solution to my other mobile, and it is working fine again, but now I like the new one working again!!!

I someone has the answer, tomorrow I'm going to the Sony Ericsson center in Queretaro, I hope is a few minutes problem solution, so I can take it again with me few minutes later at no cost WARRANTY!!

So convenient

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My mobile, Sony Ericsson K790, which is great by the way, had a little problem with java, suddenly a message of "Error en Operacion" (Operation Error) started to appear every time I tryed to enter to the apps folder. Strange and convenient, why, well Telcel (my mobile provider) call me that I'm able to change phone for free, and mine starts to fail.

I change it, and since Telcel doesn't have the ones I like in the plan (but they have for sale without discount) I choose my fifth option the SE w580, is a nice small phone, with no to great camera, 2MPx but a great MP3 player and it has a pedometer (step counter)

I still have my old mobile, it has a great camera!

I can change my mobile

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This month my mobile plan is renewed, so I can change my mobile for a new one, the only bad thing is... I'm always wanting a very new mobile, and considering that the average mexican doesn't care about their phone, and those who cares, care more about how it looks than how it works, so the only phones avaible are not good enough, I want a 5MPx camera phone, could be the Nokia N95 or the SE K850, but none of this are avaible yet, in six months they will, I can get them in the store but without the discount of the plan, so paying $750.00 usd for the Nokia is a lot of money, and $550.00 for the SE is less expensive, but still!

With the discount I could get the SE in $100.00 and the Nokia in $300.00 (is an estimate), my other choices are the HTC Touch (smartphone Windows Mobile), also not avaible in discount, the Skyzen Hummer Phone (nice looking touch screen, plays MP3's) this one is avaible now and free, and the SE W580 (good mp3 bad camera) free

I hate that, it always happends to me, when I have the chance to change phone, the ones I want are expensive and not avaible with plan discounts. So I will change for one of those options, because I love to change phone, one that is free, and six months later, will buy the one I really want.

Did you know??

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Did you know that mexican car crashers love to talk on their mobile phones while crashing...

Interesting fact how the mobile phone becames more popular among different sector of population this time with car crashers.

Meixcan Mobiles II

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Yesterday somebody send me a mail about the accesories for the mobile ZONDA MPTREZ, the one I talked about the other day, made and invented in Mexico (proud of) and they have new cool accesories to improve you already Zonda phone.

You can buy movies to see in your phone!! they have a complete catalogue in their website Zonda Shop

They give you a free movie preloaded in your phone.

The speakers...


And other stuff!

I'm starting to like more this phone, It's a shame that the camera is only 1.3mp, but they have a really cool camera phone to come.

The phone cost $250.00usd and teh speakers $40.00

Good pricing too!

Zonda Mobiles

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In Mexico we have a lot of mobile phone users, half the country has a mobile, and actually the main carrier is a mexican carrier and it is the fifth largest carrier in the world (America Móvil) with operations from the US to Argentina (with different names in every country).

And since 2002 there is a mexican company that develops and made mobile phones too, it has really great models with impressive capabilities at really affordable prices. The name of this company is ZONDA, it sounds like chinese right!, but not, it is mexican, and they develop the mobile completly, from concept to construction. They sold some models to an italian carrier to be rebranded.

Their first models the DIVAZ made for women... it was a success.


The latest model is the MPTREZ (which is MP3 with a Z insted of an S) is a mobile that was launched last year it has almost all screen and only a few keys, I think the tendency is to remove keys, it is a 1GB memory phone with miniSD slot and MP3 and MP4 capabilites. They are going to lauch in Mexico a new mobile with a digital camera of 7mp with optical zoom, and a camcorder mobile of 3mp. Things that usually are launch only in Japan or Korea... and the price is going to be a fraction of those made in Japan or Korea.



You can see more about them and this model:

Here a Softpedia article
Here a Manufactura Web article
Here an article in Endgadget
Here it is their website
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