Sony Ericsson appears to have a firm grip on turning around their companies financial stand point. The company posted a $397 Million loss (293 Million EUR). First quarter of 2010 for the first time in a long time posted an operational gain of $226 Million (21 Million EUR). Sony Ericsson has shifted its focus to high-end devices, with this focus the company has shipped 10.5 Million devices in the first quarter. 4.1 Million devices less than the 4th quarter of 2009.
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Sony Ericsson has announced the first of the phone line up slated from 2010. The Xperia X10 will be an Android powered device running on Android 1.6 (Donut). The 1Ghz Snapdragon processor is certainly going to offer in impressive amount of power to a mobile device. Sony Ericsson decided to step up to the plate and produce some of their own content for the device. Flagship applications that will release with the device are Timescape and Mediascape. Timescape is an all in one messaging applications that promises to unify text communications from social networks, SMS, MMS, and email all in one place. Mediascape is a media management applications to quickly enable users to find youtube, and other media content. The application will also link to Ericsson's own PlayNow App store. The phone will feature a 4 Inch WVGA touch display with scratch resistance, Quad-band GSM radios, and 2 different 3G configurations. The camera capabilities are boosted to 8.1 Megepixel with geo-taggin, face/smile detection, stabalization, auto-focus, and flash. Other radios include Bluetooth A2DP, GPS, Wi-Fi, and like all other Android based devices, will be integrated with google services. The handset will be available first quarter 2010, and you can choose from black or white.
LG has passed Motorola to become the third largest handset manufacturer in the world. Nokia is still clutching the title strong, Nokia has over doubled the number of units sold by its closest competitor Samsung. Here is the current break down based on sales volume for 2008.
Nokia 470 Million Handsets
Samsung 200 Million Handsets
LG 100 Million Handsets
Motorola 99.9 Million Handsets
Sony Ericsson 96.6 Million Handsets
Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and LG Electronics have decided to help conserve electricity usage, by implimenting a "Green Rating System" for their chargers. The chargers will recieve a star rating between zero and 5 stars. Cellular phone chargers continue to draw power from the wall when they are plugged in, even if the cell phone is not charging on the other end. Two thirds of the wasted electricity from cellular phones is caused from chargers being left plugged into the wall when not in use.
The BMW-200 for Women and the BMW-150 for Men are two new watches that are being released by Sony Ericcson. The watches come in 3 designs: Sparking Alure, Classic Evening, and Contemporary Elegance. The watches contain an LCD display that allow the watch to display your caller id information when a call comes in on your phone. The watch also will act as a message notification device for text, email, and alarms. The watches attach to your phone via Bluetooth, and have been designed to work with Ericcson phones only. Third party companies have made programs that will allow the watch to interface with windows mobile based devices as well. Price information is not yet available.
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Sony Ericsson has announced a drop in second quarter net profits. Sony Ericcson has made the "break even" point Sagging sales of high end devices are blamed for the loss in profit. Sony Ericcson is taking a look at cutting 2,000 employees world wide. Their only hope of regaining the financial strength that they once enjoyed is to release a show-stopping must have high end device, or release stable quality low end phones to be used in emerging markets. The company still expects their market to grow 10% despite this being the second financial warning this half.
More at CNN MONEY
Ericsson in association with 3 Italia has completed the worlds first real world trial of an "enhanced" HSPA technology. The enhancements provide immense improvements in network latency and up-link speeds. The current up-link speed of this trial is 5.8 Mbps. This speed will now become the worldwide benchmark for cellular network up-links.
Sony Ericsson is toying with the idea of purchasing the India based cell manufacturer in an effort to help pad their failing deemand for some of their existing handsets. The aquisition would afford Ericsson more facilities to produce handsets, and give Ericsson a presence in India.
Yes you read that right. Sony Ericsson has done it again with the C905. This is a phone, as well as a Sony Cyber-Shot Camera built in. 8.1MP of picture taking goodness! The phone comes with Face recognition, auto focus, geo-tagging, and much more.
Read the release at GSM ARENA
This phone looks amazing with its sleek design, and line up of features. The phone is aimed at gaming with wii-like motion control. I can't help but wonder how many people are going to end up throwing their phones across airports, and doctors offices. Insurance claims on this phone are bound to be plentiful. One can only hope that they learned a lesson from the release of the Nintendo Wii, and offer some type of wrist strap.
Read all about this phone at Cellphonenews.com
