Sony Ericsson says it will focus on Android no Symbian program

Beijing time September 25 afternoon news, according to foreign media reports, Sony Ericsson said today that the company will focus on the development of Android phones, there is no plan to launch a new mobile phone based on Symbian. "We do not currently have any plans to develop a Symbian fund standard or operating system phone," a spokesman for Sony Ericsson said in a telephone interview. "With Nokia's advantage in using the operating system on high-end handsets, Symbian is currently the world's highest-selling smartphone platform," he said. But this position is increasingly challenged by competitors. Symbian's global market share has dropped from 51% to 41.2% in the past year, according to Gartner.　　Sony Ericsson currently has only Vivaz products using Symbian, and other operating systems include Android.　　"We have made a major strategic shift to support the Android operating system," said Rikko Sakaguchi, chief creative officer at Sony Ericsson, who also said that the Vivaz series, which uses the Symbian system, had done well in the past and contributed to the rise in gross margins. The Symbian Foundation was established in 2008 by Nokia, the world's largest handset maker, to share source code with other handset makers, including Sony Ericsson, Samsung and Motorola. Samsung is also aggressively developing Android handsets and has its own operating system Bada.　　Motorola moved from the Symbian platform to Android a few years ago. Sony Ericsson is still a member of the Symbian Foundation. Android is not the only platform for Sony Ericsson, but it is undoubtedly a very important operating system, the company said. "(slides)