Ericsson: “LTE to reach 35% of the world population by 2016”

As currently LTE only reaches 2% of the world’s population, although it is expected to grow to 35% by the end of 2016. Fresh off of its breakup with Sony, Swedish telecom maker Ericsson shared these and other predictions about the growth of the mobile industry over the next five years.

Ericsson expects current WCDMA/HSPA wireless coverage to grow from 35% coverage today to 80% by 2016. Not surprisingly, they expect the bulk of that growth to take place in heavily populated areas, with metro and urban areas accounting for 60% of growth over the next half decade. Ericsson also noted that they have been expanding their market share in the mobile infrastructure industry, supplying 36% of all mobile infrastructure equipment today, with a 43% market share in cities, putting them in an excellent position to provide core network technologies to the fastest growing markets.

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Ericsson to sell its stake in Sony Ericsson, Sony becoming the sole owner

Ericsson has announced that it's selling its part of the joint Swedish-Japanese venture Sony Ericsson for $1.47 billion (1.05 billion euros). The Japanese Sony Corporation will become the sole owner of the phone maker in an attempt to boost its mobile portfolio.

"Sony will acquire Ericsson's 50 per cent stake in Sony Ericsson... making the mobile handset business a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony," Ericsson said. The decision has already passed approval of both companies' boards, but it's, of course, yet to pass regulatory approval by January 2012. The deal evaluates the whole of Sony Ericsson at around $3.0 billion, almost four times less than what Google paid to acquire Motorola Mobility.

SE will be integrated into Sony's network-connected consumer products, but quite importantly Sony will also get a huge patent portfolio including five key wireless phone patent families via a cross-licensing agreement.

Earlier, a well positioned Sony executive said that SE is a key partner in Sony's attempt to put more of its products, including games on mobile devices. It all seems logical, as the new handsets could easily make use of Sony's broad Playstation gaming portfolio. SE itself has moved in that direction by launching the PS-certified Sony Ericsson Xperia Play.

Ericsson is receiving the $1.47 billion for its 50% share in the JV, which was set up back in 2001. It all started on a high note with a series of stylish phones with color displays such as the Sony Ericsson T68i, but the company also released a couple of high-end big screened models in the P series – a rarity at the time. Around 2003 and a couple of years later, the company switched focus to its strong camera-centric K series.

In the middle of the first decade of the new millenium, Sony Ericsson treated us with its music series – the Walkman phones, which were also greeted warmly. Around that time, the smartphone race really picked up and the company couldn't catch up. It became more evident with the launch of the iPhone which caught the company off guard. Chief executive Bert Nordberg admitted: "It's safe to say that Sony Ericsson should have taken the iPhone more seriously when it arrived in 2007."

Most recently, Sony Ericsson has said that it will switch its focus to smartphones alone. The phone maker accounts for 11% of all Androids and its latest offerings in the high-end Xperia series include the Sony Ericsson Xperia arc S and the Sony Ericsson Xperia neo V.

Coming up Next Sony Ericsson Windows Phone 7

Now that Sony Ericsson has at last captured the attention of a major U.S. carrier or two with the Xperia PLAY, it is time for the joint venture to turn its attention toward broadening its product line. A recently leaked photo appears to show a Sony Ericsson branded Windows Phone 7 device with a slide out landscape QWERTY keyboard.

It can safely assume that this Windows Phone 7 device is running on at least a 1GHz processor of some sort and will offer 512MB RAM, at minimum. The display is surely over 3.5" and there is a full four-row QWERTY slide-out keyboard.

It is hard to say whether this is a real project or just some mockup. It probably seems logical that Sony Ericsson will venture out in expanding its portfolio with a second smartphone OS.

All eyes on Sony Ericsson Txt

The Sony Ericsson Txt Pro is, amazingly, for those who like to text. Because of this it has been given a QWERTY slide out keyboard. The Sony Ericsson txt pro goes for Xperia pro looks and leverages on social networking integration.

It has a 3" WQVGA screen and four-row QWERTY, 3.2MP camera, Wi-Fi connectivity and microSD card slot. The txt pro has a new Friends application that gives users a glance at the latest updates from the Facebook and Twitter accounts of five of their friends.

Txt pro is 2G only phones (with Wi-Fi ). It is expected to come out in Q3 of 2011, but there's no pricing info yet.

Sony Ericsson breaks even in Q3 financials, focusing on smartphones only in 2012

Just a day after Google reported about there being 190 million Android phones manufacture, Sony Ericsson has announced its quarterly financials and 22 million, or around 11.5% of those, were handsets mady be the Swedish-Japanese JV.

Now, 80% of the company’s sales come from smartphones, while the remaining 20% are from feature phones. With this in mind, Sony Ericsson reaffirmed its commitment to make smartphones only in 2012:

"We will continue to invest in the smartphone market, shifting the entire portfolio to smartphones during 2012," SE's CEO Bert Nordberg confirmed.

Sales in the quarter amounted to 9.5 million units, a recovery from the 7.6 million sold in the summer quarter, but still down 9% when compared to Q3 of last year.

Results for the third quarter also slightly beat analysts' expectations as the company swang back into operating profit, after a disappointing second quarter. Looking at net results, the SE broke even. The average price of a Sony Ericsson handset surged to $223 (166 euro).

The company didn’t comment on the latest rumor claiming that Sony is about to buy Ericsson’s 50% stake in the phone maker. Analysts have pointed out that the move would be welcome for SE’s smartphones as they’d be able to fully integrate Sony’s services. Ericsson’s stake is estimated at around $1.5 billion.

Cool music phone Sony Ericssons WT18i

Here we have the Sony Ericsson WT18i smartphone. As all the Sony Ericssons, we can all agree that it looks great. No particular bells or whistles, but the pure simplicity of it all makes it seem that much more special.

The phone runs on the Google’s Android 2.2 Froyo called OPhone 2.5 and it is compatible with all Android applications compatible on the original Froyo OS.

Dimension of this phone is 106×56.5×14.3mm with 110 grams. It is powered by 806 MHz Marvell PXA920 CPU, The display is a TFT capacitive touchscreen with 16 million colors. The screen is 3.2 inches big and reaches a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels. That allows for a pixel density situated somewhere around 180 ppi. The screen is made of a scratch-resistant surface as are all the Sony Ericsson displays..

The camera is a 3.15 mp camera that can photograph at resolutions as high as 2048 x 1536 pixels. The only feature the camera has is the geo-tagging. The camera can record video as well. It can’t go into HDs though. It can only record to a maximum of 480p and even in that case, the fps will be around 24. There’s also a secondary camera, if you can believe that.Other features are 150 MB Internal Memory, GPS, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, FM Tuner, microSD Card Slot, 1200 mAH Battery.

Until it comes out though, we can only look around and see what comes up from around the corner

Exciting new Smartphone Sony Ericsson Live Walkman

Music fans should be excited to hear that Sony Ericsson just launched the new Live with Walkman smartphone featuring a button for instant music access and Facebook integration. You can connect directly to Facebook within the photo gallery, music player, calendar and phonebook. A dedicated hardware button connects users to Sony’s Qriocity music platform which offers instant video and music streaming.

Phone is handsome in look and design it is having 106 x 56.5 x 14.2 mm dimension and 115 gm weight. Device is dedicated walkman features and operats with Android OS, v2.3 Gingerbread also has powerful 1 GHz processor with 512 MB RAM Memory which runs this smart phone smoothly while operating the device.

Handset has 3.2 inches touchscreen, 16M colors, 320 x 480 pixels Resolution, Scratch-resistant surface, Accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate, Multi-touch input method and Proximity sensor for auto turn-off features plays MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player and MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV player.

Live with Walkman has decent 5 Mega pixel camera with features autofocus, LED flash, Geo-tagging, image stabilization, smile and face detection and touch focus.

Other features like TrackID music recognition, 3.5 mm jack with Sony xLOUD enhancement and loudspeaker also available.The handset has all type of connectivity Features such are Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, GPS, GPRS, EDGE, 3G and v2.0 microUSB. It is also a good social networking phone it has many type of social apps like Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk, Facebook, MySpace and twitter etc.

Unlocked Sony Ericsson Live With Walkman phone is equipped with plenty of impressive features such are Stereo FM radio with RDS, Digital compass, Document editor, Voice memo, Predictive text input, Supports java apps, Games, HTML Web Browser etc.

Fashionable Android phone The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc s

 The Sony Ericsson XPERIA Arc s Android phone is as much a fashion statement as it is smartphone. this phone is equipped With a powerful 1.4 GHz processor and an eight-megapixel camera in the back of the multimedia specialist would finally lead to significant market shares in the Android segment.

it has a 4.2-inch touchscreen, Google’s user interface resolves with 854 x 480 pixels.

Other features of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S include an FM radio and a GPS receiver for satellite-based positioning. This Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc S smartphone comes with an 8 GB microSD memory card.

The Xperia arc S would classify themselves quickly into the top ranks of the Android phones. Although no significant surprises, the manufacturer makes just about everything right: Chic design, fast hardware-based, generous feature set – now has to come only when the user base that has sometimes made rather a detour around the Xperia series.

Stylish new Phone Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V

Sony Ericsson has just introduced the Xperia neo-V which is the latest generation of Xperia neo. This phone is much better than before with increased multimedia capabilities.

Xperia neo V runs latest Android 2.3 operating system by using 1GHz Snapdragon processor. The phone is equipped with 512MB RAM and 3.7 inches touchscreen screen display with 854 x 480 resolution. Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V is a Bar phone weighing 126g. It's dimensions are 116MM x 57MM x 13MM .

The phone operates at frequencies of GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 / HSPA 900 / 2100 or 850 / 1900 / 2100 MHz.

The Phone has a Display of 3.7 inches, LED-backlit LCD, Capacitive Touchscreen, 16M Colors. This model comes with Camera of Rear : 5.0 Mega Pixels (2592x1944) with Auto Focus and LED Flash, Front : 0.3 Mega Pixels (640x480), VGA Camera with , 16x Digital Zoom. The talk-time of the phone is Up to 6 hours 55 minutes (2G) / Up to 7 hours (3G).

Sony Ericsson Xperia neo-V will be available in Q4 this year. There has been no official price leaked by Sony Ericsson for Xperia neo V, but that some news that this phone will be released in three variants of the color choices, white, blue and silver.