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“It once ran the whole fun part of the internet, and it never asked for a flashlight”
“Walkman in our pockets, Ericsson in our hearts.”
Sony Mobile began life in 2001 as Sony Ericsson, a Swedish-Japanese joint venture born from two giants with complementary needs: Ericsson wanted rescue in a brutal phone market, Sony wanted a real foothold in cellular communications. Based in London with a design centre in Lund, Sweden, and R&D stretching to Beijing, it blended Nordic telecom engineering with Japanese electronics flair. People loved it because the ph
In 2012 Ericsson sold its share, the Sony Ericsson name gave way to plain Sony, and the company carried on under a string of presidents from Katsumi Ihara through to Mitsuya Kishida, its last. In 2021 the division was integrated into Sony Corporation proper, and the separate entity quietly ceased to be. It left behind two decades of phones that proved a joint venture could make something with real character.
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“It once ran the whole fun part of the internet, and it never asked for a flashlight”
“It ranked the whole web so the rest of us could know where we stood.”
“She read the news so Hungary's story never went unwitnessed.”