Sony Ericsson Buyout Deal Completed

Sony’s has announced that its buyout of Ericsson from its Sony Ericsson mobile partnership has been completed, and Sony’s mobile division is now called Sony Mobile Communications. Sony paid around $1.47 billion to buy Ericsson out of the two companies mobile phone partnership, and future smartphones from Sony will now we released under the ‘Sony’ brand.

Sony will rename Sony Ericsson “Sony Mobile Communications”, and further integrate the mobile phone business as a vital element of its electronics business, with the aim of accelerating convergence between Sony’s lineup of network enabled consumer electronics products, including smart phones, tablets, TVs and PCs.

We can expect to see all of Sony’s new smartphones at MWC 2012 bearing the Sony brand, we have already seen a couple of leaked devices and are expecting Sony to unveil a few more smartphones later this month. Sony recently posted losses, and it will be interesting to see whether their new Sony Mobile Communications company is able to help Sony get back into the black.

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Sony Xperia Sony Nypon LT22i To Be Called Sony Xperia P?

Sony has already announced the Sony Xperia S, and we have seen some details on the Sony Xperia U, now it looks like the Sony LT22i Nypon that we saw a while back will be called the Sony Xperia P. The device will apparently look very similar to the Sony Xperia S, although it will be based on the NovaThor U8500 chipset, and the device is also expect to feature a qHD display with a resolution of 960 x 540 pixels.

It will also come with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, unfortunately those are the only details we have at the moment, although we can expect the full specifications when the device is announced at MWC 2012.

First we saw the Sony Ericsson LT26i "Nozomi" officially become the Sony Xperia S, then we heard about the Sony ST25i "Kumquat" that will allegedly be called the Sony "Xperia U" and now we head more rumors of Sony using letters of the alphabet. The same Indonesian Telecoms Regulatory body that brought us the info about the Xperia U is now revealing that the device codenamed LT22i "Nypon" recently tipped and spotted online will indeed hit the market as Sony Xperia P.

To sum it up, we have the Xperia S, Xperia U and Xperia P; all these testify that Sony might be adopting a single-letter naming convention -- the same way it does with tablets (Sony Tablet P and Tablet S). We just have to hear official wording from the manufacturer explaining the algorithm of attributing letters to phones.

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Sony Ericsson open sources its Android WebGL code

Sony Ericsson – soon to be just “Sony” – announced yesterday that they were releasing their home-brewed WebGL solution for Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) to the open source community. With luck that should drive broader adoption of WebGL by Android devices, and perhaps even serve as a template for other mobile operating systems.

What is WebGL and why should you care? WebGL is an implementation of OpenGL, a programming language for real time 3D graphics. WebGL provides to tools to support advanced 3D models and shading in a web browser. It has already found widespread adoption on desktop browsers (read: everyone but Internet Explorer), but the spread of WebGL to mobile devices has lagged.

Sony itself brought the first WebGL-enabled Android devices to market last year with its Xperia line of smartphones. Nokia’s N900 is so far the lone accomplice in the mobile WebGL world, although the major update to RIM’s Playbook is expected to add WebGL support, and mobile Firefox is testing WebGL as well.

Given the importance of web apps to some mobile developers, the spread of WebGL to other smartphones should lead to a new array of browser-based games and apps that make use of advanced 3D graphics. And to that end, Sony Ericsson’s choice to publish their WebGL implementation to the open source community may benefit us all.