"We want to beat Sony, "declares Eric Kim, senior vice-president of global marketing.

FORBES: Look out, Sony

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.

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Ericsson (ERIC) and Japan's Sony Corp. (SNE), has some 200 million handsets capable of playing mp3 music files in the market already.

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Co-founders Eric Ho, formerly in digital partnerships at American Express, and Stanley Wong, previously an engineer at Sony, started working on Husky Chat full-time in June after a few months of kicking around ideas.

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