The Sony Xperia U is the baby of the newly-announced family from Sony but takes a lot of design cues from the more-expensive Xperia S. In essence the 3.5-inch device is a successor to the Xperia ray, which was released last year to great acclaim. Sony is one of the few companies that continues to [...]
Here’s some good news to the Sony loyalists out there: the company adds more lines of code to the Android Open Source Project than any other manufacturer, according to Jean-Baptiste Queru, a Google engineer who oversees the merging of millions of lines of code to AOSP. This is why, according to Queru, Sony was able to [...]
At CES this year there was lots of hype for the future of Sony Mobile Communications, formerly Sony Ericsson. Before the official transaction gets the go-ahead there are some loose ends to tie up. Sony Ericsson has reported their 2011 Q4 financial results and they have announced they’ll a pre-tax loss of about $317 million [...]
The term ‘mini’ is almost always a pejorative. It’s a synonym for small, weak, underpowered. So it’s probably a good thing that Sony Ericsson decided not to call the Xperia ray the Xperia arc mini, even though, for all intents and purposes, that’s what it is. In reality, the Xperia ray is an extremely capable phone in a [...]
The Sony Ericsson LiveView Android accessory has popped up on the Canadian SE site. We knew this was coming to Canada when we got a sneak peak at the Xperia arc back in January. The price is set at $99.99 on the official Sony Ericsson eShop but we hear this just might end up coming [...]
Back in September Bert Nordberg, Sony Ericsson’s President & CEO, stated they have an “ambition to become the global number one handset provider on the Android platform”. There is still some work to be done but with the upcoming releases of the Android 2.3 Xperia arc and Play they’ll certainly get closer. Today Sony Ericsson [...]
If you’re a Sony Ericsson fan then you will love next month! Invites have gone out to their February 13th press event at the Mobile World Congress 2011 in Barcelona. Not many details are given but the invite states they’ll be announcing the “New members of the Xperia family”. Hopefully this is when they will [...]
The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc was announced last week at CES. Today I dropped by the Sony Ericsson Canadian office and had a quick conversation with Neil Dutton. In his hand was the Arc and although he wouldn’t give me an exact availability he did state this is launching globally in Q1 (My guess is [...]
Recently Bert Nordberg, President & CEO of Sony Ericsson recently stated that “it is our ambition to become the global number one handset provider on the Android platform”… but according to the latest leak online it also looks like Sony Ericsson is going to be releasing a couple Windows Phone 7 devices. Continuing on the [...]
Sony Ericsson has reported their Q3 results and have proudly stated a “turnaround continues with third consecutive quarter of profits”. As for the numbers: they made a profit of €49 million (US$70 million) but unfortunately the number of devices shipped in Q3 was down 26% (10.4 million) for the year and o down by 5% [...]