Sendo M550 - Blue Silver (Tesco) Mobile phone

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Pakalski, Ingo (24 March 2005). "Sendo beschwert sich wegen Ericsson bei der EU" (in German). Golem.de . Retrieved 15 January 2011. Brogan believes the company is ideally placed to meet this need by offering unique physical designs and customised software.Its manu- facturing technique also means it can ship products within 48 to 72 hours. A basic electronics module is manufactured in China and shipped to the Netherlands. So, being one of the first journalists in Britain to get a hold of some production versions of the Sendo X (not that we haven't been playing with the beta models since Christmas last year) I thought I'd get some quality time in with the Smartphone from Birmingham. Alas, I've had to write this interview in the wee hours of the morning, because once Vikki got a hold of the Sendo X and the bundled game Funny Farmer, she wasn't going to give it up unless I could prise it out of her cold dead hand. Where's The Phone Been Then The world of mobile phones has just uncovered a new and compelling industrial riddle: what have you been able to do with cars, kitchens and golf clubs for years that you should be able to do with a mobile phone? A new Birmingham-based company called Sendo thinks it has the answer: customisation. As the cost of buying licences and building the next generation of mobile networks adds up, mobile operators are looking for anything that will give them an edge. And since Sendo unveiled its first prototype phones late last year, many of the leading names among the world's 400 or so mobile operators have been seen beating a path to Sendo's cramped offices in Birmingham's Small Heath business park to find out more.

Sendo's solution is to offer operators customised phones that can be ready for retail shelves months ahead of their bigger rivals. Because of a unique manufacturing process that starts in China and is completed in Holland, Sendo phones can be made in different colours and in different shapes, with the operator's brand and special buttons, as well as embedded software for graphics, games and ringing tones, all bespoke for each operator. It's not a flash that's like the flash you find in a regular camera, because that would require too much power. While this would have been possible, the engineers would have had to switch the screen off for a few seconds to charge it up, and the impact on battery life would have been tremendous. So what we have here is a flash made up of some insanely bright white LED's. This switches on as you take the picture, bathing the scene as if you'd shone a really bright torch on everyone, and then snap the picture gets taken. It works well for what it's designed for (up to around 2 metres in a pub or club) but it's not going to light up the room at an Iron Maiden gig.a b Pakalski, Ingo (26 February 2004). "Zwei neue Mobiltelefone von Sendo für Einsteiger" (in German). Golem.de . Retrieved 15 January 2011. Orlowski, Andrew (6 January 2003), "Mobile", Microsoft's masterplan to screw phone partner— full details: Sendo in the clowns, UK: The Register, archived from the original on 20 October 2011 , retrieved 28 October 2011 . But only time will tell if the Sendo way of designing and delivering mobile handsets works well enough for Mr Brogan and his team to be glad they gave up secure jobs at big, established companies. "The risk is that I could potentially be in the same place I was two years ago," says Mr Brogan. "And the upside is the chance to do something really quite exciting and to make something happen." In 2004, Sendo sold 5 million devices [2] and, along with other major mobile phone manufacturer, showed interest in using Nvidia's GoForce graphic chips. [14] Under the deal, if Sendo was declared insolvent "Microsoft would obtain an irrevocable, royalty free licence to use Sendo's Z100 intellectual property, including rights to make, use, or copy the Sendo Smartphone to create other Smartphones and to, most importantly for Microsoft, sublicense those rights to third parties." A product based on the Sendo Z100 was released while Sendo was still solvent by Orange as the Orange SPV 100, [11] manufactured by HTC as the HTC Canary, the first Windows Mobile smartphone.

Games programmers are going to be interested in two things. The Java programemrs will want to know that the Sendo X is using MIDP1.0 (not 2.0) which keeps it on a par with the N-Gage. There are a few new API's that Sendo have included for the programmers. And as previously mentioned, the C++ programmers can take advantage of the two co-processors, without having to alter their code. A Whole Bundle of Accessories Could the Nokias do what we are doing? Sure, they could, but they don't," says Mr Brogan. "A 100,000-unit deal for a Motorola is not significant. When the market is 420 million mobiles and these guys have 20% of it – so they are making 80 million phones – when someone says, 'Can you divert 10 software engineers on this (customisation) project?' it just doesn't represent a significant enough opportunity. But for a company like Sendo, 100,000 phones is, well, we get four of those and that's great."For Laptops / Tablets: lets you select a monthly Device Plan Credit Agreement (3-48 months) with a 24 month Data Plan. You can pay off your Device Plan early, and if you do, you can then keep your Data Plan on a 30-day contract or leave. If your Data Plan ends for any reason, you will need to keep on paying your monthly Device Plan (either in full or monthly) The first product, announced in Italy last week, is “technologically advanced” according to Brogan: “We want to show we’re not just another wannabe.” But it was never a partnership of equals, alleges Sendo, and after promising that StinkerOS was ready in the middle of last year, Microsoft used the delays to uncover Sendo's integration secrets and carrier relationships, and then cut off their air supply, using this knowledge to promote its new sweetheart, the Orange SPV instead. Sendo's tale Sendo are pushing the X in four areas... See more, hear more, do more and play more. Let's use them to look in more detail at what's still at the top of my list as the most desirable Series 60 handset in the world. But first... The Phone Itself a b Pakalski, Ingo (13 September 2001). "Microsoft: Keine Beteiligung mehr an Handy-Hersteller Sendo" (in German). Golem.de . Retrieved 15 January 2011.

You can redeem your Trade-in Bonus as a monthly saving on your Pay monthly airtime bill or as credit on your Vodafone account. You can't get your Trade-in Bonus as a bank transfer. There's no Snake from Sendo, but they've bundled two games into the memory of the phone. The first is a pretty competent but highly unremarkable version of Pinball. It's a good distraction, and shows off the graphics and sound capability of the phone, but it's not something that you'll want to play over and over again. The application helps customers to shop with peace of mind anytime, anywhere, save with DISCOUNT CODE & FREE SHIP available all day.Both parties are delighted. Sendo has been operating for less than two years, and the deal gives it an opportunity to be first to market with a phone that has Microsoft massive marketing budget behind it. Microsoft is pleased: although it has been toting its software to cellphone manufacturers for several years, Sendo is the first OEM to bite. As it dryly notes in its filing: In the UK the first products should be offered through Virgin Mobile. Sendo was founded in August 1999 with an initial ＄10m of funding from Hong Kong telecoms company CCT. Until November, Sendo was Microsoft's flagship phone OEM. It then announced that its four-times-delayed Z100 Stinger phone would be canned, and threw its lot in with Nokia, terminating the Microsoft agreement.

sendo", which in Japanese means "what the future holds". Sendo seemed to have the right ring, so to speak. Microsoft was to deliver code for the StingerOS by June and the first prototype, the Sendo Z100, was delivered. [7] Sendo manage to ship an SDK, [8] but by December not enough code had been delivered by Microsoft and, without any products to sell, Sendo couldn't raise any money from sales or venture capitalists. Sendo dropped Microsoft [9] and opted to go with Symbian [10] but eventually went bankrupt.At this point Brown suggests that Microsoft convert the share deal into a loan, repayable in three stages, and in February (last year), Sendo agrees. Stinker still hasn't shipped, so Sendo can't sell a phone. Microsoft refuses to pay Sendo some capital that was scheduled under the earlier agreement, Sendo alleges, and by spring the relationship has deteriorated to the level of legal threats. Right then, connection options to your Windows PC are as follows. Infrared. Bluetooth and USB. Infrared and Bluetooth are self explanatory, and similar to other handsets (but it's nice to have the option of either). The USB needs a little bit more in-depth investigation. Pakalski, Ingo (28 November 2001). "Dualband-Handy Sendo J520 mit WAP 1.2.1" (in German). Golem.de . Retrieved 15 January 2011. In September 2003, Microsoft and Sendo dropped their suits and announced that Microsoft had given up its shares in Sendo. [4] Many promotions and great discounts at SenMall booth such as: Rohto, Loreal, Anker, Sony, Senka, Sunhouse, JBL, Xiaomi, Logitech, Triumph, Unilever...