The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Sony Corp., one of the parents companies of Sony Ericsson, is preparing to buy out Ericsson from the joint venture. Currently Sony Ericsson is the sixth largest mobile phone manufacturer in the world, but Sony are clearly unhappy with that position if they want to take over full control of the venture.
The report claims that Sony are looking to integrate the mobile phone division with its existing tablet, computer and hand-held gaming divisions. This would cut costs for the company as well as allow for better synergy between those different areas.
The deal to buy Ericsson out is apparently near completion according to the WSJ, but some obstacles remain. These include Ericsson’s mobile technology patents, which some estimates value at $1.7 billion. Even so the report is siding on the view that a deal will be reached.
After the exclusive release of Minecraft pocket for XPERIA PLAY the Minecraft and Sony Ericsson fans can be happy again: Sony-Ericsson-Shop.de sells special designed XPERIA PLAY’s with Minecraft covers. Furthermore it includes another fan-toy: Steve’s Minecraft head – popular from gamescom 2011. But there is something that is special, too: Its price. While the cheapest price for a SIM- and branding-free PLAY is around 277€ (in Germany) the Minecraft version costs 299€.
A lot of us can’t wait for the 2.3.3 update to arrive and now it seems like Sony Ericsson will push it to the X10 before August – this week! Sony Ericsson posted on Facebook that they planed to roll out the update in W30, that means it should start between the 25th July and 31st July. But don’t forget that the exact date can vary for each region. Maybe we in Germany get it before the guys in the UK or the other way round.
Here’s the official post from SE:
The launch of the 2.3 software for X10 is getting closer, and the planned release date is approx. w30. The date could still be changed, since the launch is depending on operators approval”
Sony Ericsson was widely expected to post a reasonably strong showing for Q2, but dashing the expectations of analysts the company’s latest earnings report shows a 50 million euro loss. That loss was followed up by a dip in the number of handsets sold, just 7.6 million, which is a 31% fall from last year. As you would expect from those figures revenue also took a tumble, declining from 1.76 billion euros last year to 1.19 billion euros this year.
With a range of new handsets, chief amongst them the Xperia play and the Xperia arc, and a massive cost cutting campaign the obvious question would be why the loss? Well Sony Ericsson’s president. Bert Nordberg, is putting the blame on the Japanese earthquake, saying that it disrupted Sony Ericsson’s supply chain. It’s a fair comment, after all the earthquake and tsunami did have a huge impact upon the electronics industry and apparently, in Sony Ericsson’s case, resulted in the loss of 1.5 million handsets.
The Sony Ericsson Product Blog is set for some changes according to a post made earlier today. In the post Rikard Skogberg (whom I’m sure I caught a glimpse of at MWC, but foolishly didn’t go and say hello to him) talks a bit about the history of the site and how is grew out of a page devoted to the Satio.
So what are the changes? Well Rikard didn’t go into excruciating detail, but you can expect a new look to the site as well as an improved comments section. The enhancements will feature threaded comments, to give the blog a bit more of a discussion feel presumably. There will also be the ability to give posts a ‘thumbs up’! Yay! No doubt there will be some downtime whilst the changes are made although Rikard didn’t say exactly when.
Rikard himself is taking some well earned parental leave to spend some time with his family.
Sony Ericsson today announced two new handsets, the Xperia ray and the Xperia active’. I know Sony Ericsson are hard up these days, but come on chaps you can afford some capital letters; sorry but it’s a pet peeve of mine. Anyway the handsets!
The Xperia ray features a Mobile BRAVIA engine and Exmor R like the arc and sports a 3.3 inch display with an 8.1 MP camera to back it up. It will come in your choice of colour as long as your choice of colour includes black, gold, white or pink.
The Xperia active, as its name may have suggested, is the phone of choice for the outdoors-man (or clumsy people). The handset is dust and water proof as well as featuring a scratch resistant multi-touch screen with support for wet finger tracking.
The screen is just 3 inches though and the camera also sees a reduction compared with the ray, being a 5 MP model (with HD support).
As the E3 starts soon, Sony Ericsson released a list with new games for Android. You can try many of them (including Minecraft) at their stand next week. The release dates and more details about them will be released at E3 and later. With the new games they probably want to raise their sales because they are even worse at the moment. (For more information read this)
Minecraft is a popular game at the moment. And now it’s going to be released the XPERIA PLAY – only for the PLAY for now (the others will get it later as far as I know).
A few days ago new pictures of Sony Ericsson ST18, a XPERIA smartphone probably with Android 2.3.3, were leaked. Unfortunately we don’t have many information about it. Probably it has a 1GHZ Qualcomm CPU and an Adreno 205 GPU like Sony Ericsson Arc. But now the good news – the leaked pictures:
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