Swedish-Japanese company Sony Ericsson has published its financial results for the second quarter of 2009, it was the fourth consecutive quarter in which the company loses. In the second quarter of 2009, Sony Ericsson sold 13.8 million mobile phones, which is 43% less than in the second quarter of 2008 and 5% lower compared with the previous quarter. Manufacturer's profit amounted to 1.68 billion euros, an increase of 40% less than during the same period in 2008. But the net loss amounted to 213 million euros, far less than in the first quarter of this year, with a net loss of 293 million. The market share of the company fell from 6% in the first quarter of this year to 5%. The average cost of a mobile phone company Sony Ericsson has declined from 122 euros last year to 116 euros. Company Sony Ericsson is still optimistic and expects the programs to reduce costs, as well as placing on the market exciting products, will help her get out of difficult financial situations.

The company Sony Ericsson officially introduced the mobile phone, Sony Ericsson W518a, which is an improved version of the model Sony Ericsson W508. Phone Sony Ericsson W518a cot is made in form and appearance is the same as the predecessor. The main difference between them is the availability of Sony Ericsson W518a embedded GPS-receiver, and support technology A-GPS. The remaining specifications are unchanged. The manufacturer claims that the novelty is a socially-oriented model. For example, the software unit supported the work with Facebook-accounts. In the sale of Sony Ericsson W518a will be your operator for AT & T July 19. With the conclusion of a two-year contract and rebates, the cost is $ 50.   Source: GSMPress ®

Company Sony Ericsson has continued to experiment with different color solutions for their mobile phones. You can even note that Sony Ericsson are the other producers practice color expansion and have recently published quite a few of these updates, and now has a queue and model C903. Model C903 was originally available in three colors by the names of Lacquer Black, Techno White, and Glamour Red. Now, to add two more options: Metal Pink and Warm Silver. Metal Pink focuses mainly on the beautiful sex, and Warm Silver lovers like metal surfaces. Sales of these color variations due to begin in Israel and in the future they may appear in other regions. Source: GSMPress ®

It is now 30 years since the release of the first portable player in Japan and Walkman's «Soundabout» abroad. Japanese engineer Nobutoshi Kihara specially formulated for its general director of Sony Akio Morita, who was often in flight and are  deprived of opportunities to listen to their favorite musical opera. Trademarks of Sony is also a: «Pressman», «Watchman», «Scoopman», «Discman» and «Talkman», which were used for the names of a wide range of portable devices for entertainment. After the «Discman» for CD players came out of use in the late 1990's, Sony began to use the name «Walkman» to most portable audio devices company. The first Walkman model TPS-L2 came on sale in Japan 1 July 1979. In the UK, was released player with stereo playback and two jacks for headphones, enabling two people to simultaneously listen to music (although the player is sold with only one pair of headphones, MDR-1). Where the Pressman had a record button, the Walkman was the button «hotline», which has stepped up a small built-in microphone, the sound of which partially overlaps the sound of music, allowing the listener to communicate with one another. A

Ten companies producing mobile phones June 29, submitted a memorandum, which pledged to bring into the territory of the European Union, only phones with the same chargers. Since 2010, sold in the EU phone chargers are equipped with micro-USB connector.   The list of signatories included: Nokia, Samsung, Apple, Sony Ericsson and Texas Instruments.Motorola, LG, NEC, Qualcomm, Research in Motion (RIM, produces communicators Blackberry).   According to the European Commission, this decision will make life easier for users of cellular services and reduce the amount of garbage dumped from the old charges.   "Today the EU - an abundance of charges. Many of them work only with one particular phone model. Almost every household has an excessive number of" zaryadnikov ", which several thousand tons of garbage a year," - said the European Commission. Source: GSMPress ®  

  Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (“Sony Ericsson”) announced today that its net sales and net income before taxes in the first quarter of 2009 continue to be negatively affected by weak consumer demand as well as de-stocking in the retail and distribution channels. Although final results may differ, Sony Ericsson plans to ship approximately 14 million phones during the first quarter of 2009 with an estimated ASP (average selling price) of EUR 120. Gross margin is expected to decline both year-on-year and sequentially. Net income before taxes is estimated to be a loss in the range of EUR 340 – 390 million, excluding restructuring charges in the range of EUR 10 – 20 million. Sony Ericsson will announce its first quarter, 2009 financial results at 07.30 UK time/08.30 CET on April 17. Source: Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications is aware that a series of unsolicited emails have been sent to members of the general public from an email address that appears to bear the name 'Sony Ericsson' and which tells that the recipient has won a sum of money in a competition and requests that certain personal data be confirmed. These unsolicited communications are not from Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications and are believed to be attempts to obtain personal data for fraudulent purposes. Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications wishes to take this opportunity to apologise to members of the general public for any inconvenience or confusion caused by these fraudulent emails. If you receive a similar unsolicited email please do not reply to it, but forward it to questions.gb@support.sonyericsson.com Источник: Sony Ericsson

  Seeing is believing with the C903 Cyber-shot™. The slick and stylish mobile phone has a unique sliding lens cover to make great photography easy. The C903 Cyber-shot™ is made for taking memorable pictures with ease – just slide down the protective lens cover and snap away. The slim slider has dedicated camera keys and an impressive five megapixel camera to create big pictures with rich details and true colours.   Packed full of features, the C903 Cyber-shot™ will give you the best picture possible with Face Detection, finding up to three people in the frame at a time and Smile Shutter™, which automatically picks out natural smiles. Snap up to nine images in quick succession using BestPic™ to pick your best and delete the rest and show off your images with the crystal clear, auto rotating 2.4” display - send them to your blog or connect to your TV screen using the TV-out function. “The C903 Cyber-shot™ adds a creative and stylish mobile phone to our mid-range segment,” said Daniel Sandblom, Global Business Marketing Manager at Sony Ericsson. “The C903 Cyber-shot™ furthers Sony Ericsson’s digital camera heritage and makes capturing special images even more

  Entertainment Unlimited builds on Sony Ericsson’s leadership in music, imaging, gaming, content services, and applications to deliver unlimited opportunities for consumers to share experiences. Sony Ericsson unveils the next step in its evolution. The Entertainment Unlimited consumer proposition is the pinnacle of what the company has been working towards since the start of the joint venture in 2001 – the true fusion of communication and entertainment. Bringing together rich content, unique applications and best in class entertainment experiences, the new consumer proposition is based around three key promises: 1. Uniting best in class entertainment experiences into one offering such as the Walkman music experience, the Cyber-shot imaging experience, Java gaming and messaging integrated with services and applications. 2. Broadening entertainment experiences by seamlessly integrating the mobile phone into other devices in the home letting consumers share and enjoy top quality entertainment content through a variety of channels including TV, PC and Hi-fi systems. 3. Fusing communication with entertainment by removing barriers and offering unlimited sharing opportunities, multiplying the value of people’s entertainment experiences

  Sony Ericsson is bringing great music to the masses with the slick slider W395 Walkman™ phone, complete with large powerful built-in stereo speakers. Sony Ericsson is putting youth at the forefront with the launch of the W395. The stylish handset offers a full range of great music through special stereo speakers to boost your sounds, while allowing you to pump up the volume with the HPM-64 stereo headset with stereo widening for a great sound experience. The affordable W395 also comes complete with dedicated control keys for managing your music, a 1GB memory card and an FM radio keep you up to date with the latest tracks. Sony Ericsson favourite TrackID™ will help you find that elusive song, even if you’re not sure of the name, while PlayNow™ provides a full range of mobile entertainment content downloadable from your handset – from unique themes and wallpapers to specially developed ring tones.   “Sony Ericsson takes pride in understanding the youth market, and the W395 is a mobile phone that caters to all their needs with great music quality.” said Alexandre Cardon, Global product marketing manager (music) at Sony Ericsson. “Our most affordable Walkman slider phone to date allows users to share

  Sony Ericsson company has already reported that it is going to turn Walkman and Cyber-shot series into powerful multimedia mobile devices, and Sony Ericsson W995 is a vivid example of that. We daresay everybody will be surprised with its performance both as a camera phone and music mobile phone. As for music, we can say that it is very convenient to use W995 as a player. You don’t even need to take it out of your pocket to change tracks because the size, shape, and position of buttons make it unnecessary for a user to look at the phone – it is possible to control W995 by touch. Video   It is the first time Sony Ericsson gives so much consideration to comfortable video viewing. W995 has a very nice kickstand – you may place the phone on its side and watch it like TV. Unfortunately, this is all that is worth mentioning regarding video. It is really a great pity that the phone doesn’t support DivX and XviD file formats and works as a video camera in WQVGA resolution at the speed of 30 frames per second – this is nothing in comparison with some mobile phones shooting HD video. As you can see, the Sony Ericsson W995 can hardly be named a video player in the full sense of the word, and frankly speaking, we don’t

  The GSMA reported that Mobile World Congress was attended by more than 47,000 visitors from 189 countries with executives from the largest mobile operators, software companies and equipment providers as well as government delegations. Attendees holding C-level positions constituted 50% of visitors and there were more than 2,800 CEOs at the conference. Leaders from companies including AT&T, China Mobile, China Unicom, Ericsson, Microsoft Corp., MySpace, Nokia, Telefonica, Telenor, Verizon Communications and Vodafone gathered to outline the plan to cope with the global economic slowdown and lessen its impact on mobile industry. The Congress featured 1,300 exhibiting companies on more than 57,000 square metres of space, 11% larger than in the previous year. Announcements made at Mobile World Congress were reported by nearly 2,400 international, Web, and broadcast media. Prospects and strategic issues facing the mobile industry will be explored at the Mobile Asia Congress that will be held in Hong Kong in autumn 2009.  

  Seventeen top mobile operators and manufacturers announced that they have decided to team up and create a universal charger for new mobile phones. The project is initiated by the GSMA. The universal charger compatible with all mobile phones will eliminate the manufacturers of making duplicate chargers (all of them have 51,000 tonnes in weight) that can be purchased separately in case the original charger is broken. Environment will only benefit by the reduced production of chargers. Moreover, mobile phone users will find the universal charger very convenient – they won’t have to spend a lot of time looking for a charger compatible with their mobile phones. The universal charging solution (UCS) is scheduled to be included in the package of most mobile phones by the 1st January 2012. A universal charger will be based on the Micro-USB interface. The following companies will work upon the UCS: 3 Group, AT&T, T-Mobile, Vodafone, KTF, LG, Motorola, Mobilkom Austria, Orange, Nokia, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Telstra, Telecom Italia, Telenor,

  Media Go™ application debuted together with the Sony Ericsson W995 at Mobile World Congress 2009. By means of this application you can play and organize files in most formats and transfer them between your phone and PC in a very simple way. With the Sony Ericsson W995 you can watch TV shows or movies in premium video quality or see if there are any new videos from YouTube™ using Turbo 3G or Wi-Fi™. With the W995 you will not get bored anywhere, be it a railway station or crowded bus. The mobile phone has Walkman™ player and an 8.1MP camera. You can print photos up to a full A3 size with no loss of quality. This phone brings together the best music and video experiences. The W995 comes with HPM-77 headphones – try them and you’ll feel like you are listening to your favourite band live as thought you are in a recording studio! In selected markets the HPM-77 will be replaced by the HPM-88 noise cancelling headset.    

  Skype launches a lite version of Skype™ client that can be downloaded to Android-powered and Java-enabled cell phones. The lite version of Skype is now available for the T-Mobile G1™ and is expected to work on other future Android-powered devices. The ‘thin’ client also works on more than 100 Java-enabled phones from Nokia, LG, Samsung, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson.