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Sony Ericsson is to close its Farnborough base and move 45 staff to its global headquarters in Hammersmith, London, by the start of next year as part of €880 million ‘transformation programme’
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Sony Ericsson is to shut its Farnborough base and move 45 staff to its global headquarters in Hammersmith, west London by the start of next year as part of its transformation programme Read Full Story…
Jul
13
2010
 
Sony Ericsson Zylo on The One Plan from 3Posted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News, New Deals, New MobilesNew Mobile & Latest Deal News!
The Sony Ericsson Zylo has social networking at its heart and includes a Walkman player for enhanced audio quality. Facebook and Twitter come pre-loaded to get you to the latest wall updates and tweets quickly and easily. Web browsing with HSPA offers a speedy browsing experience with Google Search to help you find the information you need. The 3.2 megapixel camera features Photo fix, 2x digital zoom and geo-tagging. You can post your snaps on Picasa and Flickr to share the moment with family and friends. The camera can also capture video clips and the pre-loaded YouTube application allows you to upload your clips or view a huge variety of other videos. The walkman player features shake control, Clear Stereo and Clear Bass to make the most of your music. Listen to your favourite tracks out loud or enjoy stereo sound on a Bluetooth headset. The internal memory can be expanded up to 16GB so you can carry your music collection with you. Entertainment options include a FM Radio with RDS, video player and video streaming. All message options are included with SMS, MMS, Email and instant messaging. Compare all Sony Ericsson Zylo dealsTags: 3, all, compare, deal, Deals, email, free, google, latest, latest deal, mobile, new, new mobile, phone, phones, sam, sony, sony ericsson, tariff, tariffs, test, twitter, update, walkman
Firmware patch postedSony Ericsson has begun releasing a firmware update for the Android-based Xperia X10 handset – reviewed here.…
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Jun
25
2010
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini ProPosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News, New Deals, New MobilesNew Mobile & Latest Deal News!
The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini comes in two forms; standard and Mini. They are two of the smallest Android phones on the market. The Mini Pro measures 90 x 52 x 17mm and features a slide out QWERTY keyboard and a sharp 2.6 inch touchscreen, making it an incredibly easy to use device. There is a customisable homescreen to access your favourite applications with ease and with the Android marketplace you can download applications to suit your needs. With the Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro you will never miss an update with messages, emails, Twitter and Facebook updates accessible at the tap of a finger and stored together with the Timescape application. Although the device is mini in size, the X10 Mini Pro can store all your favourite music and photos with up to 16GB of memory via a microSD card as well as an impressive list of features include a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, GPS navigation, FM radio and Bluetooth. The Xperia X10 Mini Pro is a fantastic little device if you want a feature rich phone that won’t weigh you down and could be the way forward for powerful Android devices. Compare all Xperia X10 Mini Pro dealsTags: 10, 3, all, android, card, compare, contract, deal, Deals, email, free, latest, latest deal, mobile, new, new mobile, phone, phones, sony, sony ericsson, test, Touch, twitter, update
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May
29
2010
Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro out nowPosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News, New Deals, New MobilesNew Mobile & Latest Deal News!
What stands out for the Vivaz Pro is the 3.2 inch TFT touchscreen which has a scratch resistant coasting and a 16:9 aspect and 360×640 pixel resolution. The Vivaz Pro supports handwriting recognition and a built in accelerometer. The Vivaz Pro comes with integrated Facebook, Twitter and YouTube applications and fast internet connection thanks to HSDPA. There is also GPS with G-Maps and WisePilot for turn-by-turn navigation. Other features include an FM radio, a very good media player, up to 16GB memory and 3D gaming. Compare all Sony Ericsson Vivaz Pro dealsTags: 3, all, compare, comparemobiles.com, contract, deal, Deals, free, latest, latest deal, mobile, mobiles, new, new mobile, o2, sol, sony, sony ericsson, test, Touch, twitter
May
22
2010
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini pre-orderPosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News, New Deals, New MobilesNew Mobile & Latest Deal News!
Although the device is mini in size, the X10 Mini can store all your favourite music and photos with up to 16GB of memory via a microSD card as well as an impressive list of features including GPS navigation, FM radio and Bluetooth. There is also a 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED flash, digital zoom and geo-tagging. The Xperia X10 Mini is a brilliant little phone powered by a 600 MHz Qualcomm processor that will keep you entertained on the go without weighing you down. Compare all Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini dealsTags: 10, 3, all, android, card, compare, comparemobiles.com, deal, Deals, latest, latest deal, mobile, mobiles, new, new mobile, phone, phones, sol, sony, sony ericsson, test, Touch, twitter
Phone makers should be happy: the worldwide market is enjoying strong growth in sales of phones and a boom in smartphone sales, which grew by almost 50% compared to the recession-hit first quarter last year Smartphone sales increased by 48.7% to 54.3 million units in this year’s first quarter, according to research company Gartner, Inc. Smartphones are a small but extremely profitable sector of a mobile phone business that sold 314.7 million units, a 17.0% increase on the same quarter last year. Nokia remained the top supplier in both categories. “This quarter saw RIM, a pure smartphone player, make its debut in the top five mobile devices manufacturers, and saw Apple increase its market share by 1.2 percentage points. Android’s momentum continued into the first quarter of 2010, particularly in North America, where sales of Android-based phones increased 707% year-on-year,” said Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner, in a statement. Gartner also confirmed what NPD had said earlier: in the US, more smartphones shipped with Google’s open source Android operating system than Apple’s closed proprietary iPhone OS. Worldwide, Symbian was the most popular smartphone OS, selling 24.1m units for a market share of 44.3%, down by 4.5 percentage points. RIM came second with 10.6m sales and a 19.4% share, ahead of Apple’s iPhone OS with its 8.4m sales and 15.4%. (Symbian is used mainly by Nokia, while RIM makes BlackBerrys.) Sales of Microsoft Windows Mobile phones were almost flat at 3.7m units, which meant its market share fell by 3.4 percentage points to only 6.8%. Linux dropped 3.3 percentage points to 3.7%. In the phone market, the top three suppliers — Nokia, Samsung and LG — took almost two-thirds of the market. Nokia sold 110.1 million units in the quarter for a 35% market share, though this was down by 1.2 percentage points compared with last year’s first quarter. Nokia was followed by the two South Korean rivals, Samsung (20.6%) and LG (8.6%), then by RIM (3.4%), Sony Ericsson (3.1%), Motorola (3.0%), and Apple (2.7%). Although RIM did well to make the top 5, its total sales (10.6m units) were still smaller than Nokia’s increase in phone sales (12.7m units). However, Nokia’s growth wasn’t enough to get it back to its 2008 level, when it sold 115m phones in the first quarter. Gartner’s Roberta Cozza, principal research analyst, said that e-mail, rich messaging and social networking will continue to drive demand for smarter phones. “To compete in such a crowded market, manufacturers need to tightly integrate hardware, user interface, and cloud and social networking services if their solutions are to appeal to users,” she said.
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Google has been forced into an uncharacteristic U-turn, announcing plans to halt direct sales of its Nexus One mobile phone through its website as it admits that consumers prefer getting their hands on a device and trying it out before they part with their cash. When Google unveiled its first ever own-brand mobile phone, the Nexus One, it hoped to revolutionise the way that phones are sold. Its head of mobile Andy Rubin said in February, a month after the phone went on sale in the US, that there would be a series of Google phones but “the real innovation here is the distribution of cellphones on a web store”. He said the company had been able to use the launch to create logistics technology which meant that “when Nexus Two comes out we will just put it on the website and it will instantly go worldwide to all the operators that are hooked into our system”. But while early adopters seem to have been happy to use a website to buy an unlocked mobile phone, Rubin admitted in a blog post late last week that “it’s clear that many customers like a hands-on experience before buying a phone, and they also want a wide range of service plans to chose from”. While Google’s mobile phone software platform Android is proving a hit with consumers and mobile phone networks, Rubin admitted “the web store has not”. As a result, as the Nexus One rolls out in more countries, Google will follow the model it has adopted in Europe, where its network partner Vodafone has made the device available in its own shops and it is free on certain long-term contracts. “We’ll shift to a similar model globally,” said Rubin. “Once we have increased the availability of Nexus One devices in stores, we’ll stop selling handsets via the web store, and will instead use it as an online store window to showcase a variety of Android phones available globally.” Despite a shaky start when the first device, the G1, went on sale more than a year after Apple’s iPhone launched, Google’s Android platform has gone from strength to strength with a slew of new handsets appearing from HTC, which also makes the Nexus One, LG, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola. In the first quarter of the year, phones with Android outsold Apple’s iPhone in the US for the first time ever, according to market research by the NPD Group. The market for phones that can send emails, access the web and download applications is still dominated by the BlackBerry, made by Canada’s Research In Motion and a brand which last year celebrated its 10th birthday, but Android is closing the gap. In the UK, almost one in every five smartphones now sold uses Android, according to retail experts GfK. The HTC Desire, which is ranged by four of the five UK networks, has been particularly successful and favourably compared with the iPhone. But sales of the Nexus One have been sluggish, partly because of the way in which it was being sold and partly because the HTC Desire is essentially the same device but better. Web analytics firm Flurry estimates just 135,000 Nexus One handsets were sold in the first two months in the US. To add insult to injury, Google’s intended American partner Verizon Wireless recently turned its back on the Nexus One in favour of promoting another Android powered smartphone the Droid Incredible by HTC. T-Mobile, Google’s original launch partner for the G1 in the US, is the only American network offering a price plan specifically aimed at the Nexus One. The device, which normally costs $529, is $179 for T-Mobile customers willing to sign a two year contract.
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May
06
2010
Sony Ericsson pledges Xperia X10 Android 2.1 updatePosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
But not any time soonSony Ericsson is to update its Xperia X10 smartphone – reviewed here – with Android 2.1, but you’re going to have to wait until October for it.…
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Google’s Android is the operating system of choice for almost 20% of all smartphones sold in the UK, according to new figures Google’s Android mobile phone platform seems to be taking off in the UK, with sales of mobile phones using the software platform increasing fourfold in the past month, according to new figures from retail watcher GfK. Almost one in every five smartphones now sold in the UK is Android. The increase in sales is due to a slew of new Android devices which have hit the market in recent months, not least the HTC Desire – which, over the past few weeks, has been added to the range of most major mobile operators and been well received by critics. Vodafone, meanwhile, started selling the HTC Legend at the start of April, adding it to a list of Android devices available in the UK which includes the HTC Hero and Xperia X10 from Sony Ericsson. GfK, whose pronouncements about the retail industry are pored over by City analysts, said that Android handsets accounted for 12.3% of all phones sold to customers signing up for a long-term mobile phone contract in week 15 of 2010 – the week ending on April 18 – compared with just 3% of the market in week 12, the last week of March. In terms of the total market, Android’s share grew from 1.6% to 6.7% during the period. As for smartphone devices – which GfK defines as the market for phones that can download applications from third party providers, so it includes the iPhone – they now account for 37.6% of the total mobile handset market and 63.9% of the contract market. GfK said the figure has remained relatively stable so Android is gaining market share from rival platforms, rather than merely benefitting from an overall increase in smartphone uptake. GfK refused to give details of the market share of other operating systems. “It’s not down to one particular handset,” said a spokesman for GfK. “More and more of the major handset manufacturers are viewing Android as a useful solution and using it in their smartphones”. More Android devices will become available in the UK over the coming weeks. Google’s Nexus One, for instance, went on sale through Vodafone’s stores and website today, a new Android phone from LG – the Optimus GT540 – is due out next month, while Samsung is due to add the Galaxy S to the current Galaxy Portal (i5700) which is already available in the UK. Vodafone, meanwhile, will next month launch an Android phone designed for the mass-market as part of a “refresh” of its portfolio of own-branded devices. Vodafone has turned to Chinese manufacturers Huawei, ZTE and TCL as the mobile phone network looks to push smartphones into the mass market. The company announced nine new handsets in its own-brand range on Wednesday. Alongside some basic feature phones aimed at developing countries – including one called the Vodafone 247, which has a built-in solar panel that could find its way to the UK as an “eco-phone” – Vodafone announced new smartphones including the Vodafone 845. The 2.8in touchscreen device is the first Vodafone branded phone that uses Google’s Android operating system and has been manufactured by Huawei, which until recently was best known in the mobile phone industry as the maker of 3G mobile broadband dongles. The Vodafone 845 runs on Éclair, the latest version of the Android platform and as well as being able to access thousands of applications it come pre-loaded with the Vodafone 360 service. Fellow Chinese dongle manufacturer ZTE, meanwhile, is responsible for another smartphone in the new Vodafone range. The 546 has a qwerty keyboard and is aimed at developing countries which have not yet installed 3G networks. ZTE also produced the 247 for Vodafone. Another Chinese manufacturer, TCL – which has a mobile phone joint venture with Alcatel – has produced a new touchscreen device for Vodafone called the 543, which is also aimed at the mass market.
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Creamy Éclair offeringNot content with offering the Android-based HTC phones Legend and Desire, Sony Ericsson’s X10, and Google’s own Nexus One, Vodafone today announced an own-brand smartphone running the much-promoted OS.… Read Full Story…
Apr
25
2010
Cuba’s mobile phone boom sees few calls but plenty of chatterPosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
Once illegal gadget is now ubiquitous, despite prohibitive costs, and is loosening the regime’s grip on information Roberto Machado tapped his pocket with a smile and with some ceremony fished out the phone: a Sony Ericsson, vintage 2003. For its new owner this was no clunky relic. It was beautiful. Machado, a 31-year-old artist, recently received it from an aunt in Spain and was enchanted. “I love it. I tell you, with this life isn’t the same.” The age of the mobile phone has reached Cuba. Since being legalised by the communist government the phones, once a forbidden badge of foreign consumerism, have become a ubiquitous sight across the island. Clipped to belts, worn around necks, endlessly fiddled with, you see them everywhere. There is, however, a Cuban twist: very few use the phone to talk. Machado looked aghast at the idea. “Speak? As in a conversation? Never. Not once. You would have to be crazy or desperate.” Calls are too expensive so the phones are used as pagers. Instead of answering, Cubans note the incoming number and call back from a landline. Such are the calculations wrought by an impoverished, centrally planned economy where the average monthly wage is $20 (£13). Calls between mobile phones cost 65 cents a minute, and slightly more from a mobile to a landline. Even texting, at 17 cents a message, is considered pricey. A minute-long call to Europe costs more than a week’s salary, $5.85. It takes enormous sacrifice – or a foreign benefactor – for Cubans to afford the $60 handset sold in government stores and a further $50 to activate the line with Etecsa, the state telephone. Even so, there is always a queue outside Etecsa’s store on Obispo street in Havana. Many are youths in sunglasses and designer jeans – part of a generation as obsessed by brands as their western peers. “We’re catching up,” said Miguel, a 19-year-old. All in the queue – faces pressed against the store window – appeared giddy at the prospect of imminent cellular connection. “They’ve been waiting for this a long time,” said a uniformed guard at the shop entrance. Cuba still has the lowest mobile phone use in Latin America but the number is rising fast, with 480,000 handsets for 11.2 million people, according to officials. On one level this represents success for President Raúl Castro’s promise to ease the hardships and petty restrictions which stoke resentment among Cubans at the 51-year-old revolution. Bans on DVDs and computers have also been lifted. From the government’s viewpoint, however, there is a catch. These consumer goods fan a different, rival revolution – in information. Cubans yearn for news other than state media propaganda. “I’m sick of being treated like a 10-year-old who lives on another planet,” one tourism worker put it. A gossip grapevine nicknamed Radio Bemba (Radio Lip) is the traditional way to supplement official information. The new gadgets – phone cameras, flashcards, DVDs and the occasional internet link – are now multiplying that informal network. The state monopoly over news is history. “Even if it is not always immediately visible the arrival of new technology brings changes which bubble under the surface,” said Brian Latell, a former CIA analyst and Cuba expert at the University of Miami. Cubans are better informed than ever before, said Ruben Polanco, 29, an IT worker with a state bank. “With this,” he said, indicating the camera on his Motorola phone, “the truth gets out.” Three recent examples show the technology’s impact. Last month a baseball game between Industriales and Sancti Spíritus turned into a riot. Police waded into players and spectators – including a communist party chief – with batons and pepper spray. In the past the incident would have been the stuff of rumour, at most, but this time the brawl was captured on mobile phones, loaded on to flashcards, played on computers and DVD players across the island and uploaded to Youtube. “Everyone was talking about it, saying did you see the guy in the headlock,” said Polanco. Another clandestine video hit was a protest at the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in Havana where dozens of students protested over foul food and other grievances. A third case has fuelled anger over a scandal at the main psychiatric hospital in the Cuban capital where at least 26 patients died during freezing weather in January. The authorities admitted a blunder, promised an investigation and hoped to move on. Instead, autopsy photographs showing emaciated, apparently bruised corpses were leaked. “It’s one thing to hear and another to actually see,” said Antonio Gonzalez-Rodiles, 37, a scientist who received the images on a flashcard. “The bodies were skin and bone, like something out of a concentration camp. It’s really, really upsetting.” Unlike in Burma, Iran and other countries with repressive regimes, Cuba remains calm and stable. There are no uprisings, no mass demonstrations, so information technology poses no immediate risk to the government. Over time, however, the technology is likely to present an increasingly fraught challenge. The sea still surrounds it, but Cuba is ever less an island. Bloggers critical of the Cuban government, such as Yoani Sanchez, have attracted wide followings overseas and admirers at home, despite internet restrictions. Secret police have struggled to winkle out satellite TV dishes hidden in water tanks, among other places. Cuba’s government retains formidable control but a battle with information technology is likely to be a battle lost, said Dianna Melrose, the British ambassador in Cuba. “They are trying to do a King Canute, they are fighting an impossible tide.”
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Sony Ericsson has appointed William Glaser, Jr, former vice president of Sony Corporation and head of Sony Group Risk Office, as its new CFO. Read Full Story…
Apr
20
2010
Nokia and Sony Ericsson adapt logistics in face of Icelandic volcanoPosted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
Nokia and Sony Ericsson alter logistics to protect deliveries and component sourcing. Read Full Story…
Apr
16
2010
Sony Ericsson returns to profitability in first quarter of 2010Posted by CompareMobiles.com in Mobile News
Sony Ericsson released its first-quarter 2010 results today, returning to Read Full Story… |
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With HTC & Sony Ericsson producing stylish phones that give the iPhone a run for its money, the development for Android applications has become one of the latest crazes in the developer’s playground. Today GG2 gives you an insight to the newest books covering this subject.…
