For Motorola the E1000 became a shock offer on the European UMTS market. At the announcement moment the specifications of the device differed from usual ones so greatly that many customers considered the model de-facto interesting and successful. Considering long time period dividing the announcement and the start of the sales, these discussions seem artificial. Rival companies have already produced similar models for that time but had no time to lead them to the market and that made Motorola E1000 popular..



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