Rating: Nokia reliant on this one retailer for its UK sales
Samsung just makes Xmas with Ativ S WP8 phone
It is interesting to see that UK High Street retailer, Phones 4u, will be running a series of Windows Phone 8 launch events in conjunction with Microsoft, Nokia and HTC. No mention of Samsung, the world’s leading handset supplier, lending its support to this event, though. Furthermore, despite the fact that Phones 4U is also EE’s distribution partner for 4GEE, the retailer seems to be keeping quiet about the fact that only the Nokia WP8 handsets can be connected to EE’s 4GEE LTE network. To confirm that it’s keeping quiet about 4G, take a look at Phones 4U’s web page for Windows Phone 8 handsets here.
Surfers have to deliberately add ‘connectivity’ as a feature to see which handsets offer 4G and which don’t.
Curiously, Phones 4U mentions one Samsung Windows Phone on its site – the Omnia M (W7 Mango)- but not the latest one. The Ativ S.
Although the release date has obviously slipped, it seems the Samsung Ativ S will now be available on multiple UK networks some time in December.
If you look at the Phones 4U web site, it gives 21st December as when orders will be delivered. Only just in time for Xmas then.
That late date is also probably the reason why Samsung won’t be at these Windows Phone 8 events which take place in the North of England in Manchester (Market Street), Birmingham (Merry Hill) and Gateshead (Metro).
“We know from the fact that we have sold more Windows Phones in the UK than anyone else,” commented Phones 4u’s CMO, Scott Hooton.
According to GfK’s Top 100 retail contract handset list in the UK from 2nd-8th September 2012, Phones 4u’s Windows Phone sales account for 48 per cent of all Windows Phones sold in the UK.
Hooton added, “Our customers are strong advocates of the operating system and we are committed to providing them with unparalleled expert advice on the High Street and online for Windows Phone 8 as Microsoft launch the next generation of Windows Phone.”
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