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Recently I cahnged my mobile for a Nokia XpressMusic. Nokia in many ways is leading in innovation, Sony Ericsson is good in the music, and a few years ago they had the most innovative products, now they are like catching up.

I'm going to compare the music player since I had a Sony Ericsson W960 (walkman phone) and now I use a Nokia XpressMusic phone.

The sound quality is impressive in both handsets, Nokia has stereo speakers so it is a win here in the external speakers, also Nokia has a 3.5mm jack, which means any headphones fit, another win for Nokia, but, the UI of the Nokia player is really bad, they improve little with time, the list of songs is really slow to show, you can not see album art in the album list, you can't see which song will be next in the shuffle mode, there is no magic play list like the "sense me", rated songs or per year or decade.

Also I miss the TrackID, a great function that I loved, and I wanted yesterday while I was listening the radio there was a great song.

The phone has a lot of functions and possibilities, and since it is a Nokia, it has a great support for software, but the player, which is the reason of the phone, has a lot to improve. Kudos to Sony Ericsson doing such a great player for their phones.

I'm wating for Sony Ericsson new smartphone family based in S60 with touch screen capabilities, great cameras and impressive player, to go back with them.

NOKIA


SONY ERICSSON

I believe that sales of the iPhone in Mexico are not as good as predicted by telcel people. They cut the price, of both, the contracted and no contract phones.

The one with contract is now $50 usd ($649 pesos) but with a two year contract of $100 usd

The "amigo" without contract is $800 usd or $9500 pesos

This is in the case of the 16gb version.

The nokia tube 5800 will cost $5000 pesos without a contract or like $400 and can do so much more. I just hope that it will be free with contract or very cheap.

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.

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!!

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.