Sendo M550 - Blue Silver (Tesco) Mobile phone

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The idea was the brainstorm of Hugh Brogan, a self-effacing 36-year-old who realised the big mobile-phone makers were overlooking what a smaller, nimbler company might be able to make into a very profitable business. Only summer comes, and the code isn't ready. It isn't ready in the autumn, either, and this starts to play hell with Sendo's budgets. December rolls round, and according to Sendo, bugfixes that carriers have requested are being refused by Microsoft. Sendo is in a cash crisis, and a call to VCs is spurned. So Sendo asks Microsoft for a further cash injection, which is declined: 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. As a consequence Sendo sued Microsoft in December 2002, alleging it stole proprietary technology and trade secrets and gave these to HTC enabling HTC and itself to launch into the mobile phone market. [12]

Kewney, Guy (30 June 2005), "Mobile", Sendo: why it went titsup— Motorola’s Sendo takeover: Takeover may give Motorola a higher European profile, UK: The Register, archived from the original on 20 October 2011 , retrieved 28 October 2011Could 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."

However on the surface, all appeared to be cordial, and at a board meeting in May last year Brown pledged that Microsoft was "not working with anyone else as an 'initial go to market partner'". There's no headset profile present in the Sendo X, but you can happily use the hands-free profile with any Bluetooth headset. This also has the advantage of a much larger feature set - so facilities such as mute are available. It uses slightly more power than the headset option, but the extra flexibility offsets this to a certain degree. Do More Memory a b Pakalski, Ingo (26 February 2004). "Zwei neue Mobiltelefone von Sendo für Einsteiger" (in German). Golem.de . Retrieved 15 January 2011.They're a bunch of geeks who don't share their hoard and don't know how to partner a relationship, the market tells us. They act like children! And the world seems to be stampeding - irrationately or not, you decide - to the Euro-Asian model, even adopting technologies that don't really work just yet - such as WCDMA, rather than Qualcomm's smarter cdma2000 - because they offer the buyers a choice of multiple (non-US) suppliers. Which maybe isn't so irrational if you think about it.

In March 2005, Sendo made an objection to the European Commission regarding Ericsson and their patent and licence management after being sued. [15] a b Pakalski, Ingo (13 September 2001). "Microsoft: Keine Beteiligung mehr an Handy-Hersteller Sendo" (in German). Golem.de . Retrieved 15 January 2011. Under the SDMA, in the event of a Sendo bankruptcy, Microsoft would obtain an irrevocable, royalty free license to use Sendo's Z100 intellectual property, including rights to make, use, or copy the Sendo Smartphone to create other to create other Smartphones and to, most importantly for Microsoft, sublicense those rights to third parties." 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 AccessoriesTo Americans, the telecom world's model of promoting growth through vertical investments (a Nokia or an Ericsson bails out the carriers) and through IP sharing (yeuch!), and promoting common standards (that's goddam Communism!), must look like a filthy and incestuous business. Orlowski, Andrew (10 September 2002), "Personal", Sendo ships self-destructing Stinker phone SDK— Mission: Improbable, UK: The Register, archived from the original on 13 September 2012 , retrieved 28 October 2011 .

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. First things first, this replaces the static wallpaper screen that most Series 60 phone have. While you can put a fixed picture as one of your Now! screens, that's not taking advantage of the flexibility it has. It's made up of various 'panes', where each pane is a function. One of them is the 'Today' screen equivalent. Another lists your favourite applications. And so on. You can add panes yourself, move them around, change the colours, in fact you can do pretty much anything with them. Cullen, Drew (21 November 2002), "Mobile", Sendo junks MS smartphone, joins Nokia camp: Joins Nokia Series 60 club, UK: The Register, archived from the original on 17 October 2011 , retrieved 28 October 2011 . Welcome to Sendo Shopping App (Sendo.vn) - Vietnamese Market. Vietnamese People Choose Vietnamese Goods. Shop online with many Vietnamese stores, chain stores, and Binh Dan digital agriculture in Vietnam.

Smith, Anthony 'Tony' (13 September 2004), "Financial News", Sendo, MS settle: Microsoft settles Sendo 'tech theft' lawsuit: Microsoft settles Sendo 'tech theft' lawsuit— Both sides 'happy' , UK: The Register, archived from the original on 20 October 2011 , retrieved 28 October 2011 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. Virgin and Sendo have co-developed the phones that will be on the market in the UK in the next three months. The phones will have a distinct shape and special buttons, as well as a prominent Virgin Mobile brand. "These are small, cosmetic things but they are increasingly important," says Mr Day.