Sony Ericsson
Sony Ericsson is a joint venture established on October 3, 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to make mobile phones. The company has its headquarters in Sweden and London, UK. The company has its research and development teams in Sweden, China, Japan, the US, Germany, Pakistan, India, and Great Britain.
PThe reason stated for this venture was to combine the consumer electronics expertise from Sony with the technological leadership in the communications sector from Ericsson. As a result both companies ceased making their own mobile phones. Due to their policy and business strategy, by 2008, the company was the fifth largest manufacturer of cell phones in the world. Sony Ericsson follows companies like Motorola, LG, Nokia and Samsung. Sony Ericsson’s sales of products very much increased after the launch on the market of the Walkman and Cyner-shot series.
Sony Ericsson’s products include the following: mobile phones, mpbile music devices, wireless systems, wireless data devices, wireless voice devices and hi-tech accessories. The company’s total profit of the overall sales reached the impressive figure of 73 million Euro in 2008. Plus, there were almost ten thousands people working for the corporation in July 2008 which pretty much tells something about the extent and importance of the business. Sony corporation has half of the company and the other 50% belongs to Ericsson AB.
As we’ve already said, Sony Ericsson increased its market preponderance with cyber-shot and Walkman collections. In 2005, on March 1, the company came up with the K750i with a 2 megapixel camera and W800i, its platform mate, which were the first Walkman cell phones ever produced. The performance of this telephone was its capability of playing 30 hours of music playback and two low-end phones. In October 2005, the company launched the P990, which made the first device relying on UIQ 3 technology. The other successful achievement that Sony Ericsson had was the Cyber-shot brand, launched in 2005 by the K750.
This was one of the most popular Sony Ericsson phones. At the time this phone’s memory card capability was very innovative, which would explain the success. The difference between the Cyber-shot and the Walkman resides in the quality of the media viewing and cameras which is higher in the Cyber-shot. There are five large categories of products developed by Sony Ericsson on the whole : the W Walkman series music phones, the Cyber-shot branded line of phones, the BRAVIA-branded line of phones, the UIQ smart phones, and the Xperia range of cellulars.
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