Mobile News International reports that Sony Ericsson has increased its UK share by 5 percent, to 25 percent, for the fourth week running. This makes Sony Ericsson the second largest handset manufacturer in the United Kingdom.
The five percent gain comes mainly from launch of the C902, which we’ve just published a review of, on contract, as well as cheaper phones, such as W350 and W380, on prepay. In addition to this, Sony Ericsson’s W580 and W910 are selling well on cheaper contracts.
According to Mobile News International’s sources, Sony Ericsson expanded too quickly, resulting in the release of many unneccessary phones. Last year, Sony Ericsson announced 15 phones more than the previous year. Sources claim each phone require over 100 extra engineering and marketing staff. This sounds like one of the most reasonable reasons as to why Sony Ericsson is looking to cut 2,000 employees.
We wouldn’t be surprised to see Sony Ericsson stepping up its game later this year. Sony Ericsson’s president, Hideki Komiyama, has officially said there’ll still be financial problems to a certain degree in Q3 this year, but Q4 should be different. Especially with the launch of such phones as C905, W595 and W902.
Source: Mobile News International
Filed under: Market share, News
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We posted about a new device leaked in a video from the JavaOne conference back in May.
Due to the rather low resolution of that video, details were rare. Now useb|de managed to get their hands on a better version of that video - check out a composition of screenshots after the jump!
Continue reading “useb|de Presents JavaOne, Take Two.”
Filed under: Exclusive, Future, Rumour
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We’re ready with yet another review! This time it’s the Sony Ericsson C902, Sony Ericsson’s best cameraphone on the market at the moment. The thing that impressed me most about the C902 was its superb build quality and its very nice feel.
Without further ado, here’s the review! [click me]
Update! The translated review in German has been posted here.
Filed under: C series, Review
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A few new product colour variants should be appearing soon, including a new white colour trimming for the K330, and a gold one for the W890, a bit like the gold version of W880, that was introduced about a year ago, although only the backside is golden on the W890 version. More pictures after the break. Continue reading “Exclusive: New K330 and W890 colour variants”
Filed under: Exclusive, New colour, W series
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The arabic community se4m.com is well known for providing pics and information on upcoming Sony Ericsson phones. Today they strike again as they present us the first pictures of what is supposed to be a new G-Series slider.
The device sports a 3.2 megapixels fixed focus camera with an LED. Other features include a built-in GPS, 2.4 inch display, and it runs the A2 software platform. It will also have built-in WLAN!
We expect this phone to be announced together with Remi in about a fortnight.
All pics after the jump.
Continue reading “Say hello to the G705″
Filed under: G series, New phone, Rumour
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Sony Ericsson just recently launched an entirely new website called “Life Captured”. It’s a Cyber-shot campaign / contest that can make it possible for you to star in a movie or make a movie in a new film project, called “Life Captured”.
Sony Ericsson has hooked up with Mike Figgis, known for directing a large number of movies, and is giving you the chance to tell your life story with your camera phone, and create a film from these snapshots.
Five winners will win a C902, and will be invited on a VIP trip to the the film’s premiere at London’s Raindance Film Festival in October this year. Finally, one winner will be revealed at the premiere to win a grand prize, also to be revealed at this premiere.
You can find the website here, with lots of information on this contest. It all sounds very exciting, so do let us know if you sign up!
Filed under: Camera, Campaign, Competition, Cyber-shot, Fun, News
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Last night I got the crazy idea of upgrading our review grade system. Crazy because it meant I had to stay up till 3.00 - 3.30 AM in the morning to write most of the codes used, and make sure everything was working just fine in all browsers.
I know that our previous grade system wasn’t exactly the best, and the scores may have been a bit unfair or unexplained because of that. Hopefully, this shouldn’t be the case any more with the new one. The new system consists of no less than 43 factors, that will all have an influence on the final grade, now dubbed USEB Score, which will be given in percent, and displayed with a very brief comment below. Each grade category represents a set of factors, that will be displayed, if you press the category title. If you don’t need the additional info about the grades, everything is nicely hidden.
To make things a bit more interesting, we’ve also added space for SPMark 06 Java benchmark scores, so everyone can see how the phones perform. This is where we need your help! For rather obvious reasons, it’s impossible for us to add SPMark 06 Java scores for all of the reviewed phones. If you can run a full benchmark on one of the below listed phones, please post your results in a comment below, and we’ll add your scores to our review. The phones are;
- C702
- C902
- G700
- K660
- P1
- W380
- W760
- W890
- Z770
If you want to help us out, but haven’t got the application installed, it can be downloaded for free, right here. Thanks in advance.
We will start updating the previous large-scaled reviews today, starting with the W760 review.
Filed under: Review, USEB
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Posted by Michell | July 31st, 2008 
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