Sony’s mobile business has turned a corner, reporting its first profit in years. Sony’s FY2020 results were published earlier today, highlighting its financial performance for the 12 months to 31 March 2021. Sony’s Xperia smartphone division delivered operating income of 27.7 billion yen ($254 million) in that period. The news took Sony by surprise too, […]
Read MoreSony has finally unveiled when we will hear about its new range of Xperia smartphones for 2021. Mark your diaries, as the reveal will take place on 14 April at 8.30am BST/9.30am CEST/1.30pm EST/4.30pm JST. There will be a livestream on the Sony Xperia YouTube channel at that time. In a normal year, Sony would […]
Read MoreLG is reportedly considering abandoning the mobile market, following steep losses over a number of years and the lack of mindshare in the smartphone space. Sony hasn’t fared much better when it comes to selling smartphones – it has exited a number of regions, and does very little marketing to promote its wares – but, […]
Read MoreSony released its results for its Q3 FY2020 fiscal period, which represents the three months to the end of December 2020. After a small respite in Q2 FY20, which saw Xperia smartphone shipments stabilse, the company once again experienced a reduction in units sold in the latest quarter. Sony shipped 1.0 million Xperia smartphones during […]
Read MoreSony had a redemption of sorts when it came to its 2020 flagship devices, the Xperia 1 II and Xperia 5 II. Sony brought tangible improvements over its predecessors including most notably, the return of the 3.5mm headphone jack, bigger batteries and new ZEISS camera lenses. The Xperia 1 II also added wireless charging, and […]
Read MoreSony has released its fiscal second quarter results for FY2020, which includes the performance for the three months ending 30 September 2020. Sony shipped 600,000 smartphones during this quarter, and the good news is that this is the same number of phones shipped at this point last year. Whilst in the context of other manufacturers […]
Read MoreSony reported its fiscal first quarter results last week covering the three months to 30 June 2020. The actual performance for Sony’s mobile business was not that interesting – Sony shipped 0.8 million smartphones, a slight decline from the 0.9 million units sold in the same period last year. Sony’s latest flagship, the Xperia 1 […]
Read MoreSony has released full year results for the year ended 31 March 2020, giving us a glimpse into the latest performance of the business, particularly in light of COVID-19 disruptions. As expected, the mobile business had a weak last quarter. Sony shipped just 400,000 smartphones between January and March 2020, against a forecast of 700,000 […]
Read MoreSony Xperia fans are playing a waiting game until its range of 2020 smartphones are available. To tide you over until then, it’s worth checking out some of the latest comments from Sony Mobile’s President Mitsuya Kishida. This comes from an interview with Japanese publication AV Watch. The interview was conducted via video conference, like […]
Read MoreSony Mobile had been using a consistent form of model numbering for its Xperia smartphones since 2013. This involved a series of five characters – one letter followed by 4 numbers. For example, the 2019 Xperia 1 had model numbers J8110, J8170, J9110, while the 2013 Xperia Z had model numbers including C6602, C6603, C6606. […]
Read MoreSony has been collapsing all of its Sony Mobile properties into the parent company for a while now. Sony has already announced that ‘Sony Mobile Communications AB’ will close, and we’ve seen that the Sony Mobile Talk Forums will also close, with users redirected to the generic Sony support forums. In what appears to be […]
Read MoreSony has officially pulled out of making an appearance at the MWC 2020 trade show, which is being held at the end of this month in Barcelona. Sony’s exit follows a number of other manufacturers including LG, ZTE, Ericsson, Nvidia and Amazon, who will also not be attending due to the increasing health risks around […]
Read MoreSony has published its fiscal Q3 FY20 results, relating to the last calendar quarter of 2019. Sony has finally stem the quarterly decline it saw in Xperia shipments over the prior year, it reported Xperia shipments during the quarter was 1.3 million units. This makes it the highest selling quarter during calendar 2019, although given […]
Read MoreTime to mark your diaries, Sony has confirmed that its 2020 MWC press conference will be taking place at 8.30am (CET) on 24 February. A livestream will also be available on the Sony Xperia YouTube channel. Sony has always used MWC to announce new Xperia smarpthones, and this year will be no different. We have […]
Read MoreSony has been slowly folding a lot of its mobile division and properties into the wider Sony business. The same fate is now befalling the Sony Mobile Talk forum, which has been an invaluable support forum for Xperia owners for a number of years. A notice on the forum says that the “forum will be […]
Read MoreSony has made some fine smartphones over the last ten years. Arguably, Sony Ericsson/Sony Mobile has been one of the most underrated smartphone manufacturers, with many phones not finding an audience through a lack of awareness/marketing spend. The list below includes what we feel are the most important Xperia phones of the decade. Curating the […]
Read MoreAs 2019 comes to a close, it’s time to reflect on Sony’s smartphone journey over the past year. It’s been an interesting one for Sony, yes we all know that Xperia shipments continue to decline, quite significantly in fact – driven partly by the company pulling out of many regions, and apathy by the consumer. […]
Read MoreSony reported its latest three-month results for the quarter ended 30 September 2019, and it remains a sober read for the performance of its mobile business. The launch of the Xperia 1 appears to have made no difference to shipments, as Sony shipped just 600,000 units – its lowest number of shipments ever, down by […]
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