<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by hfly:
I saw this a couple of years ago when they were something stupid like 18 months late to market with triband cell phones, and then released them on very limited models. Ericsson (SE) went the opposite way and started putting it in a lot of models, this coincidentally was the start of their resurgence in the market.</font>
I remember being at the CeBit and talking to Jorma Ollia, the CEO or Nokia, it was the year Motorola hit the market with the L7089 Tri-band phone, when I asked him about Nokia's plans for tri-band devices he was arrogant enough to answer that as long as they didn't think it was a necessary feature nobody would need it. According to him it was NOKIA who decided what was "cool" and what wasn't. Needless to say that passing through airports seeing 100's of business travellers all using their Motorola Timeports made it obvious he had screwed up and underestimated the market. Even Nokia's first "world" phone was a 900/1900 phone, long after Ericsson and Motorola had tri-band phones on the market.