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Sony Ericsson no longer exists. Sony officially purchased Ericsson’s share of the joint venture last month and the company has big plans to make mobile one of their core businesses, at least that’s what Kazuo Hirai says (pictured above, right). So what operating system will the company bet their future on? Google’s Android is the…
Kazuo Hirai has replaced Howard Stringer as the CEO of Sony and it will be interesting to see how big a role mobile will play under his leadership, especially now that Sony is poised to completely take over the Sony Ericsson phone-making business. “I believe his tough-mindedness and leadership skills will be of great benefit…
The European Commission has nothing against Sony’s acquisition of Ericsson’s stake in the joint-venture (Sony Ericsson). As far as Europeans are concerned, the Japanese giant can pay its former partner $1.05 billion and start selling its own branded phones on the old continent. Big transactions like these are always a subject to regulatory approval to…
Earlier this week we saw an image of a devilishly handsome Sony Ericsson device called the ST25i “Kumquat” hit the internet. It looks exactly like the Sony Ericsson Xperia S that was launched at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month, except that it has a 3.5 inch screen instead of a 4.3 inch screen.…
Kristen Schaal is back to show the world how she plays Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 with the Xperia Play in a new ad. Still, it’s a bit hard to sit back and watch new ads for essentially the same phone that was saw back in May of 2011. It’s a bit hard to really try…
If you thought the current crop of cameras in smartphones are good, then you probably can’t wait to see what the next generation of devices will have with the just-introduced image CMOS sensors from Sony. The main appeal of the new back-illuminated CMOS image sensors is that it will be able to fit into even…
Sony Ericsson has just posted their Q4 2011 financial results and boy they’re not pretty. The company managed to lose 207 million Euros during the last three months of 2011, which translates to roughly $266 million. They shipped 9 million mobile phones, down 20% from the same quarter last year, and down 5% from Q3…
The Sony Xperia S was introduced at CES 2012 and we had a chance to take this gorgeous phone out for a spin. As you can see from the video below, the Sony Xperia S has a unique design in that there’s a clear strip at the base of the phone underneath the standard Android…
We’re at CES 2012 and Sony just announced its first 4G LTE handset and the Xperia Ion will be coming exclusively to AT&T within a few months. Let’s take a look at it and see if you should get excited. The Xperia Ion hits all the major check boxes for a high-end smartphone. You want…
Sony likes to make a big splash at CES and the 2012 conference is no different, as it introduced a bevy of new products including two new Xperia smartphones. As you may know, Sony is buying out Sony Ericsson to make mobile devices a bigger part of its brand and we already heard about the…