Channel - Sony Ericsson

Emerging Markets And Feature-Rich Phones Upped Handset Sales in 2007: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 28 Feb 2008 11:12 AM PST

Consumers thirsting for high-end phones with TV tuners, GPS, touch screens and fancy cameras, along with first-time phone owners in emerging markets, drove worldwide phone sales to 1.15 billion last…

MWC Aftermath: The Industry ♥ the iPhone - 4 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 15 Feb 2008 04:42 AM PST

The Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone bandwagon rolls on. At this year’s MWC, a cross-section of execs from operators, to handset makers, to content players were singing its praises—backing them up…

Mobile Music Leads Games 3-1 In China: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 12 Feb 2008 01:33 PM PST

Mobile entertainment is popular among the Chinese, with 34.8 percent reporting they listened to mobile music and 10 percent played a downloaded mobile game in December, according to M:Metrics, which…

@ MWC Wire: Motorola; LG And Samsung Use Linux; FIFA-Ericsson; RealNetworks - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 11 Feb 2008 03:48 PM PST

-- *Motorola* launches mobile TV, GPS device: Motorola (NYSE: MOT) today introduced Mobile TV DH01n, a portable media player including navigation capabilities 2D or 3D GPS and Tele Atlas map…

Sony Ericsson Not Interested In Motorola Handset Division - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 11 Feb 2008 05:19 AM PST

New Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) CEO Hideki Komiyama says the company is not interested in Motorola’s handset business, though they plan to step up their efforts to increase…

Sony Ericsson Announces Windows Mobile Phone; Nokia Unlikely To Do The Same - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Sun 10 Feb 2008 07:34 PM PST

Hours before Mobile World Congress officially kicks off, Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) announced a new premium brand of phones today, saying that it will run Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT)…

Motorola’s Possible Spinoff: Reconfiguring The Handset Market - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 04 Feb 2008 08:13 AM PST

Motorola’s announcement Thursday that it was mulling over a sale or a spinoff of its cellphone division has analysts working overtime figuring out what this could mean for the handset…

Earnings: Ericsson Cuts 4,000 Jobs, But Says Mobile Content Is Growing - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Sun 03 Feb 2008 08:26 PM PST

As Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) prepares to trim 4,000 jobs, the Swedish company said Friday that its multimedia division, including TV and music, continues to be in a “build-up phase.” The…

Motorola To Exit Handset Business? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 29 Jan 2008 09:15 AM PST

Nomura International analyst Richard Windsor has caused quite a stir with a research note published to the bank’s clients today saying that beleaguered cellphone maker Motorola (NYSE: MOT) may exit…

Sony Ericsson Announces Plans For Music Service, Again; More Games - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 27 Jan 2008 07:23 PM PST

A bit puzzling, since Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) announced the exact same plans in November last year as well...this time it says it has deals with three labels,…

Executives At Davos: Yes, Mobile Will Be Big. Seriously. - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 25 Jan 2008 04:05 PM PST

During a Davos panel Friday, the heads of Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Sony (NYSE: SNE), NBC and China Mobile expressed optimism over the future of the mobile industry, with Google’s Eric…

Earnings: Sony Ericsson Increases Marketshare To 9 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 16 Jan 2008 05:45 AM PST

Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has come out with its fourth quarter earnings, showing an 18 percent increase in unit sales compared to the fourth quarter of 2006. However,…

Silencing Your Ringtone With Wave Of The Hand: SNE’s New Phone - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 06 Jan 2008 08:53 PM PST

Interesting this: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is launching a phone where a user can simply wave their hand it to mute the ringtone and ignore a call. The…

2007 Review: Big Web Brands In Mobile Have Strong Effect - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 20 Dec 2007 07:18 AM PST

To a large extent 2007 has been dominated by the moves of big web brands into mobile. In fact, if I was under pressure to point to the strongest effect…

New Business Models Forcing Manufacturers Into Services - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 16 Dec 2007 04:36 PM PST

A couple of press articles have written that handset manufacturers like Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) have been forced into the mobile services market by…

Sony Ericsson Plans For Mobile Music Store In Q208; Signs 4 Major Labels - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Tue 06 Nov 2007 03:32 PM PST

*Sony Ericsson* has announced plans to launch a mobile (and online) music store in the second quarter of 2008 in a bid to counter moves by Nokia (NYSE: NOK)—and to…

Nokia Dominates World Handset Market In Q3; Global Penetration To Hit 75 Percent In 2011: Reports - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 26 Oct 2007 03:27 AM PST

The latest handset figures for the third quarter are out from Strategy Analytics, and there’s no surprises. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) took 39.2 percent of the market, followed by Samsung with…

Sony Ericsson Prepares Push For Music Site M-Buzz - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 24 Oct 2007 06:48 PM PST

Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is preparing a big push for M-Buzz, its global unsigned bands site, with a major cross-promotional marketing strategy and a series of developments on…

Motorola Buys Half Of UIQ From Sony Ericsson - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Mon 15 Oct 2007 03:42 PM PST

Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) will sell half of its smartphone software unit UIQ (bought from Symbian last year) to Motorola (NYSE: MOT) for an undisclosed sum. “It’s not…

Earnings: Sony Ericsson Revenues Up 7 Percent, Profit Down 10 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 11 Oct 2007 07:06 AM PST

Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has reported its third quarter results, showing lower profits on increased shipments. Net profit for the third quarter fell 10 percent year-on-year to 267…

Touch-Screen Patents Come Thick And Fast; Apple, Nokia, Sony Ericsson - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 07 Oct 2007 04:32 PM PST

Touch screens were ill-received before the iPhone gave them some cred, and now companies are looking for ways to get the touch-screen edge on their competitors through patents. Engadget has…

@ Mocollywood: On Adult Content, Mobile TV, And Simplicity - 1 Comment
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Wed 03 Oct 2007 01:42 PM PST

Well, it seems there were big ambitions, but a small turnout, for this week’s Mocollywood mobile entertainment conference in London. Here are some items I took note of during some…

Sony Ericsson Considering Windows Mobile Device - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Thu 20 Sep 2007 02:31 PM PST

Apparently Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has placed an ODM order for Windows-based phones with Taiwanese handset maker HTC, according to a report in the Chinese-language Taiwan financial paper…

Universal Flash Storage Standard Gains Support, Offers Interoperability And Faster Access - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 16 Sep 2007 03:39 PM PST

Seven companies including handset manufacturers, Flash producers and chipset manufacturers have backed a new Flash memory standard to be used in mobile phones and other small consumer electronics devices. The…

Sony Ericsson: More On The PlayStation Phone - 0 Comments
Posted By Ingrid Lunden - Wed 12 Sep 2007 11:27 AM PST

...Or rather one more Sony Ericsson exec commenting on the possibility of one. Miles Flint, the president, said it is considering PlayStation handsets, but “we need to make sure that…