This is the same pattern which unfolded at Nokia, Motorola and Sony-Ericsson, he says.
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Kurt Hellstrom, the CEO, told investors that Sony-Ericsson needs a market share of at least 10% to break even.
March 19, Sony-Ericsson sharply revised its first-quarter profit forecast, citing slow sales of its mid- and high-end handsets in Europe.
Microsoft will be relying on the likes of Dell, HTC, HP, LG, Samsung, Sony-Ericsson, and Toshiba to build phones around its software.
Even Amazon, an online shopping giant, may feel the urge to splash out and buy, perhaps, Sony-Ericsson, which like Motorola seems too small to make it on its own.
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If Hellstrom can't lift the sales of Sony-Ericsson handsets, he may find himself competing not with the other big five but with the next wave of competition from Korea and China.
While putting on a brave face, Google has triggered alarm bells for the growing number of handset and tablet manufacturers--like HTC, Samsung, LG and Sony Ericsson--that rely on Android to power their devices.
The main six vendors - Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Siemens, LG Electronics and Sony Ericsson - will remain the key players but there will be consolidation among other suppliers.
Japanese handsets are among the most sophisticated in the world, and it's a market dominated by some of the toughest companies in electronics: Sharp, Panasonic, NEC (nasdaq: NIPNY - news - people ), and Sony's joint venture with Ericsson (nasdaq: ERIC - news - people ), Sony Ericsson.
Going through the box, aside from various leaflets and informational papers, we find a Sony Ericsson-branded headset, a micro-USB cable, and an USB charging dongle for home power outlets.
Initially the system will allow file-sharing with Sony's PSP games console, Nokia's N-series mobile, Sony Ericsson's Walkman and Cybershot handsets and Microsoft's Windows Mobile smartphones.
Apple leapt ahead of several vendors in 3Q10 including RIM, which it surpassed by 1.7-million units, and Sony Ericsson by 3.7-million units.
Whether you own a multimedia-packed Sony Ericsson or an iPhone, the handset you carry around these days is pretty smart.
"Qualifying for the year-end Sony Ericsson Championships is one of the goals I set for myself at the beginning of the year, " Safina said.
Jobs surely hasn't forgotten that before the introduction of the iPhone, Sony seemed poised (briefly) to derail Apple's iPod when it slapped the Walkman brand on a line of music-friendly Sony Ericsson handsets that have sold well in Japan.
Safina lost her No. 1 ranking for the second time after retiring hurt during her first match at the season-ending Sony Ericsson Championships in Qatar in October, and revealed then that she had been struggling with the problem for three months.
Sitting pretty as the number three cell maker in the world would make many of the bigger names happy -- not to mention the usurped Sony Ericsson and Motorola a bit green -- but not LG, as it's now gunning for spot number two.
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Once upon a time (2007) in a land far, far away (Thailand) lived the i-mobile 902, a pseudo Sony Ericsson W800 clone featuring a trick five-megapixel autofocus camera with a Sony-made CCD sensor and xenon flash.
Nokia E5-00, Sony Ericsson W20, and Samsung i5500.
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He says four of the five largest handset makers will make Android phones--a hint that Sony Ericsson has signed on or soon will.
Laptop docking stations are so early-2000s, as Sony Ericsson has already patented what is essentially a docking station for your cellphone, dubbing it a Mobile Phone Multimedia Cradle.
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We encourage Sony Ericsson fans and non-fans alike to go check out the real deal, but in the meanwhile, we've put together a Reader's Digest peek here at some of the highlights.
Sony Ericsson showed off a vapor-y Symbian Foundation phone with a 12.1 megapixel camera codenamed the Idou.
GadgetTrak founder Ken Westin, for example, gave up an effort to put his mobile-phone tracking software onto Sony Ericsson handsets last year.
Like Nokia, Sony Ericsson, as the London-based joint venture is called, hopes that colour screens and digital pictures will persuade existing users to trade in their handsets for newer models.
It is particularly attractive when compared with Sony Ericsson's misconceived HBH-20 Handsfree headset, whose design--a transceiver you clip to your shirt with an earbud connected to it via a wire--mocks the very idea of wirelessness.
That means Sony Ericsson's rather flaky-looking portfolio, which is in sore need of some high-end smartphones to rival Apple and Samsung, won't get a significant facelift until 2010--leaving only planned cost savings to take up the slack.
After massive misses from Euro-centric vendors like HTC and Sony Ericsson, this was a jolt.
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