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No more bugfixes for you Sony Ericsson's long-suffering smartphone users are spitting mad at a decision by the company not to issue any more firmware updates to their phones. The policy was confirmed on Tuesday, and affects owners of the P990i smartphone, M600i communicator and W950 music phone.â¦
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Dry heaving Twitterites For several days, many Twitter users in the US were unable to digitally vomit with their T-Mobile phones.â¦
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InfoWorld - Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications will get its GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) mobile phones made in India by contract manufacturers, starting with entry-level color phones and mid-level phones with music.
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(InfoWorld) - The U.S. International Trade Commission said Thursday it will investigate complaints by Ericsson and its Swedish parent company that Samsung ElectronicsÂ and two of its U.S. companies violated patents used its mobile handsets. Ericsson and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson filed a complaint against Samsung's Korean parent company, Samsung Telecommunications America and Samsung Electronics America, alleging that Samsung's importation of its patented mobile phones and components violated U.S. law, according to an ITC statement. The ITC set no timetable for the investigation, but said it would establish a target date for the completion of the investigation to within 45 days of its institution. EricssonÂ filed suit against SamsungÂ in a Texas court August 2, alleging that Samsung is infringing on its patents for mobile handsets and some of their components. The case is part of legal action taken by the Swedish company against its Korean rival and former partner since February, after the two failed to renew a 2002 licensing arrangement for patented technology. The deal expired at the end of 2005.
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Sony Ericsson, the world's fourth-biggest mobile phone maker, posted higher second-quarter sales on Wednesday but its profit and its average phone sale prices were below analysts' estimates.
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Sony Ericsson is about to launch six new phones, including a Walkman music phone with 9GB of built-in Flash memory.
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Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications plans to make an announcement Wednesday about its strategy for the UIQ interface that runs on the Symbian mobile phone operating system, Sony Ericsson President Miles Flint said Sunday at a news briefing on the eve of the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona.
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Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications exceeded market expectations on Thursday when it reported that net profit rose 45 percent in the third quarter, but Nokia&#39;s third-quarter report indicated the market leader was still struggling to get back on track.
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Sony Ericsson, the world&#39;s  fourth-biggest mobile phone maker, posted higher second-quarter  sales on Wednesday but its profit and its average phone sale  prices were below analysts&#39; estimates.
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(InfoWorld) - Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications A.B. is setting up a research and development (R&D) unit for mobile phones in Chennai in south India. The handset maker announced earlier this year that it was outsourcing its manufacturing to the Chennai operations of Flextronics Corp. and Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., which uses the brand name Foxconn. By having R&D teams in India, the company will be better able to tap into consumer behavior in local markets, Sony Ericsson said Wednesday. A number of mobile phone vendors are setting up manufacturing, R&D centers, and network operating centers in India, both to take advantage of Indiaâs low-cost labor, and also to target Indiaâs booming mobile phone market. India added 6.57 million mobile telephony subscribers in May this year, taking the total number of subscribers to 178 million, according to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) in Delhi. This mobile telephony boom has translated into heavy demand for mobile phones. Over 62 million handsets have been sold in India in the last 12 months, according to internal estimates by Sony Ericsson. The company is targeting production of 10 million phones from India by 2009. The new facility will become part of Sony Ericssonâs global network of R&D units, currently comprised of sites in China, Japan, Sweden, the Netherlands, the U.S. and the U.K. The company did not, however, provide details of staffing or the nature of the work to be done at the new R&D facility.
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Walkman phones prove leader of the pack Sony Ericsson saw its profits jump 55 per cent year-on-year in its results for the second quarter of 2007.â¦
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the Financial Times and Sony Ericsson announce a new mobile service that allows consumers to read up-to-date global business and financial news, comment and analysis from FT.
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HSDPA 3G on board too Sony Ericsson is to beef up its line of Cyber-shot camera phones with a new five-megapixel model, but you're going to have to wait until nearly Christmas to get your hands on it.â¦
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Sony Ericsson, LG, and Samsung have all caught &quot;iPhoneitis,&quot; joining in on one of the hottest trends at the Mobile World Congress -- touch-based user interfaces.All three launched mobile phones at the show in Barcelona, and they all use touch in different ways -- from LG&#39;s icons that change function depending on what part of the phone is being used to Sony Ericsson&#39;s ability to focus where a user touches while taking a picture.Sony Ericsson likes to point out that it has supported touch since the birth of the company. But it also gives Apple some credit.&quot;They are a source of inspiration,&quot; said Rikard Skogberg, category manager at Sony Ericsson.The point is to make mobile phones easier to use and to open the door for more features, such as mobile Internet.&quot;Sony Ericsson&#39;s goal is to make our phones as easy as possible to use, and touch is a big part of that. If people are going to buy more advanced phones, they must be able to use all the features -- and for that to happen, they must be intuitive,&quot; Skogberg said.LG&#39;s Channel Marketing Manager Heather Seabrooke agrees.&quot;It&#39;s all about usability. With touch, you don&#39;t need a million different buttons. Instead, you can use the same ones for different things,&quot; she said.But not all phone vendors seem to be convinced. Nokia was expected to show a new version of its S60 operating system with an integrated touch-based user interface, but it was nowhere to be seen.Nokia says it will use touch starting sometime during the second half of this year but not in a gimmicky way. And there must be a clear migration path for users.Several analysts are also skeptical.&quot;We believe that a good user interface must also support buttons to be effective and fast. And we will see a lot more innovation before this market becomes mature,&quot; said Leif-Olof Wallin, research vice president at Gartner.But at the same time he thinks that Nokia&#39;s lack of support for touch may hurt its sales in the short term.&quot;Nokia&#39;s new flagship phone, the N96, has an impressive spec, but it doesn&#39;t support touch. And that makes it a bit handicapped,&quot; said Wallin.Ben Wood, director of research at CCS Insight, has this warning for users: &quot;We think 2008 will be the year of crap touch phones.&quot;
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Greek phone taps Ericsson has been hit with a â¬7.36m ($10m) fine for its role in tapping mobile phones belonging to the Greek prime minister and members of his Cabinet.â¦
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Sony Ericsson, the world's fourth biggest mobile phone maker, posted higher second-quarter sales on Wednesday but its profit and its average phone sale prices were below analyst estimates.
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Music or photos, your choice Mobile World Congress Sony Ericsson has unveiled two additions to its Cyber-shot range: the C702 and C902. Each packs enough functions to keep the amateur snapper happy, but neither matches the new W980âs audio features.â¦