|
||||||
 Sony’s slow and painful transformation continues with a restructuring of its newly-minted mobile division . In October, it’s moving its headquarters from Lund, Sweden (presumably a holdover from its Ericsson days) to Tokyo — for deeper integration — and repurposing the duties of its facilities in Tokyo, Lund and Beijing. . . . → Read More: Sony Mobile moving HQ to Tokyo, cutting 1,000 jobs in Sweden More Info Sony Xperia S review Sony announces the Xperia P: Aluminum unibody, shipping Q2 Sony pushing ICS to more devices next week, confirms Xperia Play won’t be upgraded As the middle child from Sony Mobile’s NXT family, the Xperia P steps out from behind the Xperia S’ shadow with its own 4-inch screen — and a touch of WhiteMagic . . . . → Read More: Sony Xperia P review: a solid, middle-sized smartphone waiting for Android 4.0  You’ve picked up the Galaxy S III . You’ve grabbed the source code . . . → Read More: Chipworks, iFixit tear down the Galaxy S III for all to see, spot iPhone 4S’ camera sensor hanging around  Financial maven and maker of beautiful graphs Horace Deidu has found that between the top eight mobile phone vendors, Apple and Samsung share 99 percent of the total spoils. Of RIM , LG, Sony (Ericsson) , Motorola , Nokia and HTC , only the latter made a profit — claiming that left over one percent. The remaining six all recorded losses for the quarter, Mr. . . . → Read More: Visualized: Apple and Samsung occupy the 99 percent… of phone profits  To be fair, things have… changed a bit since we heard back in November that the Xperia handset line would be getting Ice Cream Sandwich by March of 2012. . . . → Read More: Sony’s Xperia Ice Cream Sandwich rollout pushed to mid-April (and beyond)  The company formerly known as Sony Ericsson applied for a patent in 2010 that’s yet to be granted, but you never know, one day it might wind up in a handset near you. Having recently introduced the “floating touch” Xperia Sola that doesn’t require your hands to make contact with the display, the next logical step is to make the whole thing controlled just with the movement of your head. Wearing a Bluetooth earpiece with a motion sensor, you then map a custom motion onto a phone action, so shaking your head could answer a call, nodding up and down ends it and going from side-to-side will fire up an app . . . → Read More: Sony applies for ‘head control’ patent to frustrate non-verbal communicators  For those confused by Sony’s mixed naming conventions, this is the Japan-friendly version of AT&T’s incoming Xperia Ion . There’s been some additions to the US-bound device we handled back in January, including a built-in TV tuner and mobile wallet functionality. Last time we heard, the LTE-capable Ion was set for a summer world tour , but given this early spring unveiling on the other side of the world, it could pass AT&T’s tests this side of 2012 — hopefully with all four of these color options in tow . . . → Read More: Sony Xperia Acro HD launches March 15 in Japan  It looks like one of Sony’s latest creations, the Xperia S , could be getting a little brother at next week’s Mobile World Congress, according to a series of leaked pics. . . . → Read More: Sony Xperia U ‘Kumquat’ pics leak, gets sized up ahead of MWC  More than half of America’s married couples will tell you, breaking up is hard. Hard and expensive. After living in denial , dodging rumors and eventually coming to terms with the inevitable, Sony has finally taken over Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson’s 50-percent stake in the pair’s former joint venture, a move that was earlier reported to have cost €1.05 billion ($1.37 billion) to complete . . . → Read More: Sony finalizes divorce with Ericsson, renames itself Sony Mobile Communications  Sony Ericsson is looking to start a bromance with the McTwist-loving, Double-Cork-landing, A-Frame-riding masses jonesing for a new Android device. The handset maker has announced a “global strategic alliance” with Billabong to launch the Xperia Active Billabong Edition smartphone in select markets. The handset will come preloaded with exclusive content, including Billabong screen savers, and bundle several Billabong-branded games and applications . . . → Read More: Sony Ericsson hangs ten, launches Xperia Active Billabong Edition |
||||||
|
Copyright © 2013 Mobided - All Rights Reserved Powered by WordPress & the Atahualpa Theme by BytesForAll. Discuss on our WP Forum |
||||||
Recent Comments :