http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/ Engadget Mobile Comments for Sony Ericsson sees net profits fall 97%, looks to cut 2,000 jobs http://www.engadgetmobile.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgetmobile.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/Jul 18th 2008 1:41PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/Jul 19th 2008 11:29AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/
The phones they DO have are nothing spectacular, and CLEARLY these Scandinavian companies (Im talking to you Sony Ericsson and Nokia) are in ca-hoots with each other, designing phones that go up a model number but look and do the same as the one before, and try to market 5 year old handsets as being NEW for double the cost.

Sony Ericsson is also the one who put out the ever faulty SE T610, the LAST phone T-Mobile carried. Hell, even T-Mobile told me the phone had problems and asked me if I wanted something different to start with. I refused, had it replaced 3x before I finally got to keep it, and upgraded to the V600.

Emerging markets? Like what? Namibia? Not that people dont need some form of telephony but lets be honest here... its 2008 - if you dont have it already, lets look to building something else other then GPRS/GSM phones.

FAIL SONY ERICSSON - oh, might I also mention that the upcoming phones all look mediocre and have less features then any other phones on the market.


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That said, they have to push out phones faster. These Swedish and Japanese people must learn from the Koreans. The delay on the Z750 was inexcusable. Here's hoping phones like the Z780 and C905 and X1 are released a lot faster.]]>Jul 18th 2008 3:57PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/but I agree that X1 is way too slow to get released]]>Jul 18th 2008 6:53PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/Jul 18th 2008 4:49PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/same hardware on several models (W580/S500, W710/Z710, K550/W610)
not aggressive on US market (several flagship models don't have 850 and EDGE)
product is not thoroughly tested (K850 failure, cracked keys on W580/S500)
to make a turnaround, SE must
1. avoid to release several models with same hardware
2. ALL $200+ models must have quad-EDGE, and US 3G models will have 2 different variations (one for att/rogers, another is for T-Mobile)
3. supply CDMA models again to Sprint/VZW/Bell
4. adopt 3.5mm and microUSB jacks instead of FastPort

SE phones have their advantage
the best battery
guaranteed reception
easiest to use menus]]>Jul 18th 2008 6:50PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/Jul 18th 2008 7:41PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/Jul 19th 2008 3:41PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/Jul 20th 2008 4:20PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/Jul 18th 2008 6:57PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/Jul 19th 2008 3:31AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/Jul 19th 2008 7:28PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/Jul 19th 2008 7:37PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/Jul 18th 2008 7:40PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/
Ericsson was committed to CDMA for the long haul but the guys from Tokyo did not see profits coming fast enough and they fought to cut the whole division. Sony did the same thing in 1999 when they killed off the JV with Qualcomm and what was Sony PMCA.

Sony was NEVER the number seller of CDMA phones at any point in time. If you don't have your facts straight you should not be posting comments.]]>Jul 19th 2008 7:47AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/Jul 20th 2008 4:22PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/07/18/sony-ericsson-sees-net-profits-fall-97-looks-to-cut-2-000-jobs/Aug 21st 2008 9:51AM