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Sony Ericsson today announced its membership of the Open Handset Alliance, and also confirmed that the company is planning on developing an Android-based handset.
- We believe Sony Ericsson can bring a wealth of experience in making consumer focused multimedia handsets with new user experience to the Alliance drawing on the successes of the Walkman and Cyber-shot sub-brands. Sony Ericsson is a strong supporter of open operating systems and we believe the Open Handset Alliance offers an exciting opportunity for a new and unique user experience only Sony Ericsson can deliver, says Rikko Sakaguchi, CVP and head of Creation and Development at Sony Ericsson.
You can read more about the Open Handset Alliance over at the official website.
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android is not the future!!
WM…AND SYMBIAN FOUNDATION are!
I hope they port android into X1…I would buy that instead of WM!!
I remember Sony Ericsson said that Xperia is not only come with WM, but also other OS. I beleive the next Xperia variant will have Android inside too.
bring it on…sony ericsson!!!!!
A little bridie told me they started work on Android handset a few months ago
So, apart from their own proprietary software and the now dead-end UIQ, SE is now not only into WM and Symbian Foundation stuff, but also into Andriod… With all this diversity I find it hard to see that they’ll be able to really commit to anything beyond yet more Walkman and Cybershot mashups.
I would love a C905 on Android !!!
Now all we have to do is wait and see if SE does justice to it, or it ends up messing it up the UIQ way.
From a 3rd Party developer point of view, the more device manufacturer’s that join Google’s Open Alliance just helps reinforce the opportunity for companies like DataViz. We’ve seen great success with our products on Symbian, Palm, Windows Mobile and Blackberry, and all of the platforms have different pros and cons. In fact we helped power the Exchange ActiveSync client on Sony Ericsson’s UIQ handsets and are excited for the opportunity to do the same on their Android devices.
I think that both Sony Ericsson and Google have proved to be very innovative companies, so hopefully we can take some new hardware designs and software tools to build our mobile productivity apps which benefit a new group of customers.
As such, we have recently announced that we will be bringing our mobile Office suite, Documents To Go, and our Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync client, RoadSync to Android. If you would like to learn more and follow our progress, please visit http://www.dataviz.com/Android