Sony Ericsson unveils 8 phones
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Sony Ericsson unveiled eight phones Tuesday aimed at helping the world's fourth-biggest mobile phone maker boost its market share in emerging and developed markets.
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Blog: Sony Ericsson releases a new Walkman phone that may just challenge the iPhone.
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Nokia , the world's largest  mobile phone maker, unveiled three new mobile handsets on  Monday intended to boost its offering of mid-range phones and  help lift its global market share.
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Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson said  on Tuesday that it would launch a new service on its phones  that would allow full music downloading, initially focusing on  new and up-and-coming artists.
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Sony Ericsson will launch late Thursday in Berlin six new phones, including a high-end Walkman-branded handset with around 9GB of internal Flash memory, according to a company spokeswoman.
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(InfoWorld) - Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson will restructure and hire 500 more engineers to better meet demand for multimedia products and services, Ericsson's chief executive officer said Friday. Starting in 2007, Ericsson will reorganize into three units: networks, global services, and multimedia. The new engineers will primarily work in the multimedia group, and the bulk of them will be based in Sweden. The new group will help Ericsson better understand what types of multimedia services might become popular and how demands might vary, said Carl-Henric Svanberg, president and chief executive officer. "We and operators are still on a learning curve. When it comes to voice it's very easy," he said. "But with multimedia, what does a 13-year-old in Germany want and does an American 13-year-old feel the same? And that's much different than an adult in China." The new group will also aim to better leverage the company's relationship with Sony and with theirÂ mobile phone joint ventureÂ Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications. "When it comes to multimedia, we have exciting assets in Sony Ericsson and at Sony. We just haven't put it together and it's been embedded further down in the organization," he said. Svanberg offered an example of how Sony and Ericsson products might grow increasingly complementary. Currently, users of Sony Ericsson Cyber-shot camera-phones can send photographs to an online blog. Soon, standalone Cyber-shot cameras are also likely to include connectivity so that users can send photos to a blog, he said. Because Ericsson supplies wireless network infrastructure and develops some chips for mobile devices, that type of product and application could be created through an alliance between Sony and Ericsson. The new networks group, which combines several existing network equipment groups, will have a renewed focus on converged networks that will help support some of the emerging multimedia services in the home. "In the perfect world we will have a converged network where you won't know if you're speaking on a mobile or a fixed network," Svanberg said. Similarly, a user could be watching TV at home, pick up a mobile phone to watch the same program while moving around the house and then continue watching while moving to an outside location. Such a service would operate over connected wireless and wireline networks. The third new business unit, global services, combines Ericsson's existing professional services and network rollout groups and will focus on services for operator customers. Ericsson acquiredÂ most of U.K. telecommunications equipment vendor Marconi late last year and is in the process of laying off 1,600 people as it digests the new company. That acquisition is part of a recent wave of consolidation in the competitive network equipment market, including theÂ merger of Lucent Technologies and AlcatelÂ and theÂ combination of Nokia's and Siemens' networks groups.
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South Korea's Samsung Electronics  (005930.KS) unveiled six new mobile phones on Tuesday,  including a model which is 5.9 millimetres thick and claims the  title of the world's thinnest phone.
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Sony Ericsson on Sunday announced a new premium handset aimed at capturing the Web convergence market, blending multimedia with mobile Web communication in its first product using Microsoft Corp.'s operating system.
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Nokia , the world's largest  cellphone maker, unveiled on Monday four new multimedia phone  models, including successors to its top N95 and N73 models.
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Nokia, the world's largest cellphone  maker, unveiled on Monday four new multimedia phone models,  including successors to its top N95 and N73 models.
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Nokia , the world's largest  handset maker, unveiled four new multimedia phones on Monday  and said it was in talks to offer phone access to social  networking site Facebook.
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The Sony Ericsson Z500a is available for connection to Cingular&#39;s EDGE (Enhanced Data for Global Evolution) network. The new mobile phone features a built-in digital camera with zoom, a built-in video camera
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World number four mobile maker Sony  Ericsson  aggressively expanded its line-up  of low-cost phones on Tuesday, joining bigger rivals in the  fight for customers in emerging markets.
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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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Japan's Softbank Corp. (9984.T) unveiled  13 new cell phone models for the year-end shopping season on  Thursday, including three made by Sharp Corp. (6753.T) and two  by South Korea's Samsung Electronics (005930.KS).
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Japan's Softbank Corp. 9984.T unveiled   13 new cell phone models for the year-end shopping season on   Thursday, including three made by Sharp Corp. 6753.T and two   by South Korea's Samsung Electronics 005930.KS.
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(InfoWorld) - Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications will launch late Thursday in Berlin six new phones, including a high-end Walkman-branded handset with around 9G bytes of internal Flash memory, according to a company spokeswoman. The music-centric Walkman will more than double the internal memory of previous models and will feature a newly designed media player and large-touch display for easy navigating. But, unlikeÂ Apple's planned iPhone, the new Walkman will include a keyboard. "Our new Walkman mobile phone isn't designed as a response to the iPhone but as a further development of the Walkman," the Sony Ericsson spokeswoman said. Sony Ericsson will also unveil the latest in its line of Cybershot camera phones, a 5-megapixel device. Several new accessories will be introduced in Berlin, including a GPS (global positioning system) unit that can be connected to a mobile phone and new Bluetooth headsets. What the Japanese-Swedish joint venture will not be announcing in Berlin is a new video game-mobile phone based on Sony's PlayStation Portable (PSP) handheld device, the spokeswoman said. The blogosphere was full of rumors of a new PSP mobile phone after Japanese employees of Sony Ericsson last month filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for a mobile phone with video game features. "The patent is registered; we register many patents," the spokeswoman said. "But we don't have a PSP mobile phone in the planning. I can't say that we won't see such a device in 10 years but there are no plans to build one at the present time." The spokeswoman said that the company's current focus is on music, imaging and the Web, but not on the PSP. Which isn't to say that PSP owners won't be able to make calls soon. Last month, British Telecommunications PLC (BT) announced its work on a software-based Internet telephony package for the portable device. The system will allow PSP users to make voice and video calls across a Wi-Fi network. Later it will be extended to cover calls and messages to PCs, fixed-line phones and cell phones. Â