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Sony has announced that it is buying full control of handset maker Sony Ericsson for $1.46 billion. But will it change anything? Here are five things that bringing the business in-house means for the Japanese electronics giant and the wider industry. Read More »

Sony Ericsson has no current plans to use Nokia’s Symbian platform to power smartphones going forward and is instead turning to Google Android for future handsets. Given how long it’s taking Sony Ericsson to get phones off of Android 1.6, maybe it should stick with Symbian. Read More »

 
 

Android This Week: Hot Droid, New Droid

Statistics released this week show the Droid to be the most used Android phone on the web, by a significant margin. The same numbers show the EVO 4G, only out for a few days, has nearly pulled even with the Google Nexus One in web usage. Read More »

Stat Shot: How the iPhone Changed the Handset Market

The change in the mobile phone market caused by the introduction of Apple’s iPhone has slightly cut the profits for the handset industry overall, but has most severely affected Nokia and Sony Ericsson, while boosting Research in Motion, according to data released today from Deutsche Bank. Read More »

Will Chinese Users Buy Android Phones Sans Google?

Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Lenovo are moving ahead with their Android plans in China despite Google’s recent decision to postpone the launch of two new phones. But are Chinese consumers interested in purchasing Android phones that don’t feature Google’s mobile apps? Read More »

Skype New Chair Appointment: Smart Move

Skype has tapped former Sony Ericsson President and current senoir adviser to Silver Lake Partners Miles Flint to chair its board. With Flint’s experience and Skype’s contentious history, it’s a move that makes sense — on a number of levels. Read More »

One Voice Means Your LTE Calls Will One Day Be VoIP

A large group of carriers and equipment makers yesterday came out in support of a standard called One Voice to provide voice over the next-generation Long Term Evolution mobile networks. For those adopting the standard, LTE mobile calls would become VoIP calls. The standard … Read More »

Sony Ericsson's New Android Phone Is Sleek, But Has a Hole

Sony Ericsson today announced its Xperia X10 smartphone, based on Android, which features a customized software layer called UX built on top of the open-source operating system. It’s the first of a family of smartphones that the company plans to deliver in the first half … Read More »

What Sony Ericsson Should Do With Its New $676M

Like a hard-luck gambler who can’t walk away from the table, Sony Ericsson is once again raising the stakes despite holding an ugly hand. The joint venture said it has secured $676 million in new funding — primarily from parent companies Sony and Ericsson — Read More »

Sony Ericsson is hoping that a brand makeover can somehow heal its critically wounded handset business. The joint venture between Ericsson and Sony said today that it will adopt Sony’s “make.believe” tagline in its marketing campaigns to “reinforce its entertainment credentials” with consumers. The company promises … Read More »

Analyst Finds 150 Million "Missing" Handsets

The Linley Group released a report last night in which it claims that about 150 million handsets are missing from the official calculations of phones sold in 2008. The research firm notes that while some 1.2 billion cell phones shipped last year, 1.43 billion … Read More »

Europe Gets Handset Makers to Agree to Universal Charger

Nokia, Motorola, Research in Motion, Apple (yes, even Apple) and six other cell phone makers have agreed to a European Commission request to develop a universal charger. The agreement was announced today by the the EC. The new handsets will use Micro-USB … Read More »

More Must Reads

Sony Ericsson recently reported huge losses for the second straight quarter, for which it blamed the struggling economy. The results included a $240 million quarter loss and a 21 percent drop in phone shipments, garnering a vote of low confidence among analysts. And as Dick Komiyama, … Read More »

Facebook is launching on Sony Ericsson’s hot new super phone, Xperia X-1. Read More »

For the last couple of days I have been playing around with what could arguably be the best Windows Mobile phone in business – Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X1. From the packaging to the diminutive USB charger to the sleek finish of the device itself, … Read More »

Nokia said today that it will buy up the part of Symbian it doesn’t already own and create the Symbian Foundation, which will unite all of its flavors into a single, common software platform that will go open source in two years. The move is a … Read More »

A group of equipment vendors and handset makers have teamed up to craft a licensing framework for the fourth-generation LTE mobile standard. Essentially the group wants to prevent the pain and suffering caused by Qualcomm’s control of 3G patents related to CDMA. Nokia, Nokia Siemens Networks, … Read More »

Apple’s iPhone might be leaping up the smart phone charts, but don’t tell that to the guys from Symbian, who saw 77.3 million Symbian OS phones shipped during 2007, up 50 percent from 51.7 million units in 2006. The number of handsets with Symbian OS … Read More »

It’s not as fun as counting delegates from Super Tuesday, and figuring out which mobile operating system is pulling ahead can be complex, but we’re on it. And while we’re not tallying intangibles such as the “cool” factor of the phone, and have no … Read More »

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