Archive for August, 2009

Sony Ericsson CEO Hideki Komiyama to retire soon

Monday, August 17th, 2009

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Well, it seems that Mr. Komiyama has had enough. We think. He’ll be retiring at the end of the year, with Ericsson’s executive, Bert Nordberg, taking his place. Also, Sony’s Sir Howard Stringer is going to become the new board chairman.

Despite the grim outlooks, caused by the ratehr unpleasant recent losses, it has once again been stated that the joint venture is not going to vaporize any time soon. If necessary, extra funds are going to be injected into the operation of the struggling company.

Source: Reuters

Jalou announced – livepics & livevideo

Wednesday, August 12th, 2009

se-first.com Jalou live pictures

Sony Ericsson today announced the “Design phone” Jalou. The official min-iste is available here, the official press text can be found here.

More live pictures and a hands on video from se-first.com can be found here.

Youserbase previews the Satio and the Aino

Friday, August 7th, 2009

And it’s on video! Yes, I know you guys love these kinds of hands-on sessions where you can just sit back and enjoy the influx of information from the live action video in front of you, as opposed to staring at sets of characters for half an hour. Your only grudge could be the reviewer’s diction in the form of various obscure accents. Now this guy is at least trying. I applaud you, reviewer guy!

The multi-part previews are just after the break. (more…)