Honestly, a couple of quarters of not-so-great growth and Sony is suddenly going to cut and run from a profitable joint venture? After all those years of red ink? I don't think so. Get real people. SE was spending too much on R&D, but that just means they should have some good stuff in the pipeline. And if they don't, they should refocus their efforts on making a select few REALLY good phones, rather than having a million lackluster phones. Remember the glory days when the W810 was the best phone in it's class? They don't need to shove more features into a phone than Nokia, they just need to make something that works better. A good, solid phone with all the features people need (quadband EDGE + triband HSDPA), as well as a decent camera (5 mp at this point), WiFi, very usable keys for texting, an attractive body, and they'll do great. Oh and more marketing would be good too.
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Daniel Perz @ Aug 2nd 2008 3:06AM
Honestly, a couple of quarters of not-so-great growth and Sony is suddenly going to cut and run from a profitable joint venture? After all those years of red ink? I don't think so. Get real people. SE was spending too much on R&D, but that just means they should have some good stuff in the pipeline. And if they don't, they should refocus their efforts on making a select few REALLY good phones, rather than having a million lackluster phones. Remember the glory days when the W810 was the best phone in it's class? They don't need to shove more features into a phone than Nokia, they just need to make something that works better. A good, solid phone with all the features people need (quadband EDGE + triband HSDPA), as well as a decent camera (5 mp at this point), WiFi, very usable keys for texting, an attractive body, and they'll do great. Oh and more marketing would be good too.