Sony Cell Phones

The Sony cell phone represents the major Sony Ericsson product since, for quite some time now, the two companies associated to combine ones expertise in consumer electronics and the others technological leadership in communications. The founders of Sony Corporation were Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita, however, they are not the parents of the Sony cell phone. The company’s headquarters are at Minato, Tokyo, Japan. As a corporation, Sony services a huge electronics market that includes not only phones but video stations, TV sets, computers, semiconductors, play stations and other consumer electronics as well. In 2008 the companys total income was US$ 4 billion from the total revenue of US$ 100 billion. In March 2008 the number of employees the company had was 180,500.

From a historical point of view, Sony has been notable for their standards for new recording and storage technologies, as they created their individual brands and products without stealing from the competition. In time, Sony has introduced standards such as: Umatic (1968), Betamax (1975), Betacam (81), Compact Disc (82), 3.5 inch Floppy Disk (82), Video8 (85), DAT (87), Hi8 (88), Minidisc (90), Digital Betacam (90), miniDV (92), Memory Stick (98), Digital8 (99), PSP Universal Media Disc (2003), HDV (2004), Blu-ray Disc (2006). So, Sony is mainly known for these consumer electronics rather than for cell phones which they started developing in cooperation with Ericsson only. Therefore, although you may refer to them as Sony cell phone products, you would actually discuss Sony Ericsson phones.

After their association, Sony and Ericsson became famous in the field of cell phone design due to their Walkman and Cyber-shot phones, getting to the fifth place among the top companies of the world, after LG, Nokia, Samsung and Motorola. In March 2005, the K750i with a 2 megapixel camera Sony cell phone was introduced on the market together with its platform mate, the W800i which was the first of a series of very successful Walkman phones able to do 30 hours of music playback as well as two low-end phones. A few months later, in October, another Sony cell phone the P990 – was released, being the first cellular using UIQ 3.

Another successful Sony cell phone worth mentioning comes from the Cyber-shot brand. This one the K750, was also launched in 2005 and made record sales. Unlike the Walkman which had a very good media package but a poor camera, the Cyber-shot phone had a decent media viewing and good cameras.

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