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Sony Ericsson has confirmed that it will continue to put its weight behind Google’s Android operating system, although it says that it's still keeping the door open to Microsoft and its Windows Phone 7 mobile phone system.
“We are keeping a watching brief”, Steven Walker, acting head of global marketing at Sony Ericsson told Pocket-lint in a one-to-one interview at CES in Las Vegas.
“We've done a lot of work with Microsoft over the years. We’ve launched a number of 6.xx products, but we made a decision not to bring a product to market in the first wave. We absolutely maintain to keep an open mind towards Windows Phone 7. We continue to engage in a relationship with Microsoft, but we haven’t made any concrete announcement about when and how we would introduce Windows Phone 7 into the portfolio”.
Walker says that Sony Ericsson is instead focusing on Android, galvanising behind the OS to create a strong ecosystem for consumers:
“We do think it’s important at this moment in time to focus our external messaging on Android based products. We see the need as an industry to galvanise behind the Android ecosystem to create a strong ecosystem for consumers”.
Why? Walker says the answer is simple:
“We need to do this so that there will only be a certain number of eco-systems that will prevail. Developers won’t develop for 17 eco-systems. Consumers won’t choose between 100 different eco-systems. In the end only a certain number will prevail”.
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Posted: 2011-01-17 21:51:10
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Good, at least one smart decision by SE. What Microsoft did to WP7 is just making me cry...
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Posted: 2011-01-17 22:05:23
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Nice to see that they are turning the corner and providing up to date versions of Android on their new phones. They updated the X10 regularly, just a pity it needed the upgrade to Eclair in the first place. It should have been launched with it.
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Posted: 2011-01-17 22:06:37
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I am not interested in other OS anyway Android or A2 or A3 is what I want. By the way has anyone heard of anything new & exciting coming for
own OS??
[ This Message was edited by: Bonovox on 2011-01-17 21:10 ]
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Posted: 2011-01-17 22:09:00
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I doubt it. They're moving the focus upwards so I guess we'll be seeing less phones running it. Yendo is their new proprietary OS which could be a development of A2. Who knows.
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Posted: 2011-01-17 22:45:59
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Shame. I know Android is selling big now but I still hoped to see a2 phones like a new w995 or Aino type device surely there is still the market for it?? Rather see that than phones like Spiro
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Posted: 2011-01-17 22:47:59
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I guess this means I have an Android also at the end of this year
times are changing
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Posted: 2011-01-17 22:58:30
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Hans once your in that's it
I have one or two annoyances with Android it ain't perfect but it is the future right now. you will find once you do you will grow to like it.
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Posted: 2011-01-17 23:00:08
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I would like to see some new top specified a2 phones too. They have always been reliable and durable
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Posted: 2011-01-17 23:03:27
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On 2011-01-17 23:03:27, rikken wrote:
I would like to see some new top specified a2 phones too. They have always been reliable and durable
+1
need a durable phone with long standby time, android drain battery so fast. my sister charge her X8 every day.
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Posted: 2011-01-18 18:17:20
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