Sony Ericssons losses, Androids gain?
As per latest news, Sony Ericsson has taken a hit in its yearly revenues and filed losses of more than 70 million Euros. With this news the rumours of split between Sony Ericsson and its parent company Sony starts to grow even stronger. But for Android community, there is that silver lining around all these bad news coming in. We already talked here, about how Motorola is going to focus on Android to help itself come out of these negative results and same will happen with Sony Ericsson too.
Essentially companies are looking to cut costs by using Android open operating system and save costs of licensing costly proprietary solutions avaialble. It will be interesting to see how Windows Mobile and Symbian tackle this contuning shift by handset manufacturers in year 2009. If the way things are going, and industry experts believes things to get even worse for mobile manufacturers, we might see a altogether different market situation by end of this year.