One of the bigger names to join the Open Handset Alliance this week was Sony Ericsson. They are one of the last of the major handset makers, save for Nokia, to get on board with Android. As they enjoy a growing market share, SE has really stepped their game up of late.
The handset that has everyone talking up Sony Ericsson is their Xperia 1 and for all the right reasons. It's a sleek device with a perfect blend of form factor. Packed with a 3.2MP camera, a 800 x 480 touchscreen, and an optical joystick/4-way key, it had us Android fans hatin' on Windows Mobile. We'd hoped and speculated that an Android version would come and now it seems more likely than ever that the two might come together.
Sony Ericsson spokesman Garfield Brusewith says they "expect initially to focus on products in the higher segment, but later on we will also supplement with products for the broad mass market". According to idg.se we can expect to see their first Android handset by summer of 2009. In the big scheme of things, that's not that far off.
Perhaps an Xperia 2 might be in order. Whatever the case may be, we hope it continues along the path that Sony Ericsson currently seems to be on.
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A good reason to wait. Summer 09 will have many great choices:
- TEGRA-equipped WM7 phones
- iPhone HD
- SE's Android (or X2)
- T-Mobile G2
I just hope we see anything at CES or MWC'09. NVIDIA and SE were the only generous ones last year...
This is kinda bogus. There is no quote attributed to Sony Ericsson about a Summer time frame. The website itself merely says "it is expected" that it will be released in Summer. Expected by whom? My mother-in-law? The kid that cuts the lawn? Prior to this nobody has really said anything about a time frame because there was no idea that SE was going Android.
This is the author of that story on the Swedish site expressing opinion as to when it will launch.
Could he be right? Surely. Should we be reporting it and validating it? No, because now that people have read it multiple places, without the proper context, it will be assumed by many to be fact. And it is anything but that.