Sony Ericsson joins Open Handset Alliance9 December 2008 by Olav Hellesų-Knutsen
"Sony Ericsson is excited to announce its membership of the Open Handset Alliance and confirm its intention to develop a handset based on the Android platform," said Rikko Sakaguchi, CVP and head of Creation and Development at Sony Ericsson. "We believe Sony Ericsson can bring a wealth of experience in making consumer focused multimedia handsets with new user experience to the Alliance drawing on the successes of the Walkman and Cyber-shot sub-brands. Sony Ericsson is a strong supporter of open operating systems and we believe the Open Handset Alliance offers an exciting opportunity for a new and unique user experience only Sony Ericsson can deliver." Membership of the Open Handset Alliance will complement the company's existing Open OS strategy which is based on the Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms. The following handset manufactures are currently member of OHA: Asus, Garmin, HTC, Huawei Technologies, LG Electronics, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Toshiba. Nokia is currently not a member of the alliance. About the Open Handset Alliance
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Finally... SEricsson on Android platform - summer next year. Hopefully with a capacitive touchscreen.
mmanson on Dec 09 2008
SE buys UIQ, trashes it and goes WM and Android
What next??
swordofhell on Dec 09 2008
This will be awesome.
TheMojo on Dec 09 2008
i do not trust sony ericsson anymore i have no doubt that they will wreck this and then abondon it like they did with uiq.
mackereljoe on Dec 09 2008
we'll have to give it a chance. i would like to see it come true
tranced on Dec 09 2008
Yet another "false dawn" from Sony Ericsson, they will play about with this for a while, and then drop it when the inadequacy's of their software development team become apparent and Nokia decide to move in, Sony Ericsson have a solid track record in this area, now what was the last one errrrrr........................... Oh thats it UIQ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As for this "the company's existing Open OS strategy which is based on the Symbian and Windows Mobile platforms"
What a laugh!!!! The fact is Sony Ericsson does not have "strategy's" merely short term fixes! and is WM truly an "Open System"???
NitroFan on Dec 10 2008
Was about time, cant wait to see what will be the first android SE!!!!
Rudiox on Dec 11 2008
seeing Open source is the way forward i think this is the right way UIQ was not going any way SE and Motorola were the only 2 major players with 50% each share in the company and what amounted to a hand full of phone using uiq this year SE made a good decision to tank uiq and Motorola were not going to do any r&d as they were in worse off situation then SE and seeing nokia announce its plan to buy out symbian and make a unified OS to compete with android and windows mobile sony ericsson are sitting quite good having window mobile in X1 plus android should be the next X series phone and then its Symbian in a years time its all good news
korbindallis on Dec 12 2008
They have no 'strategy'. They buy UIQ, and within a year dump it for the crap of a phone called Xperia!
This is a clear sign of their incapability to develop a long term strategy to design a phone. Instead they seem to be running from one group to another, deparate to find some short term boast.
On the long run, they stand exposed as nothing better than companies like HTC, who depend on mighty software firms for survival.
What a pitty, with two big firms backing it, this is all they can do.
AJ on Dec 27 2008
Is this the first sign of discord among Symbian Foundation members? Is SE positioning itself to combat percieved Nokia dominance?
carkitter on Dec 31 2008
I've seen the android browser on G1. It sucks nothing compared to opera
or s60(no page overview). But I expect something like full qwerty E71 from SE rather
than a bulky P family device.
Bhanuka on Jan 04