Most sold Sony Ericsson runs on Android

More than two-thirds of the phones that Sony Ericsson sells its Android-powered smartphones. That took the manufacturer at its quarterly figures known. By far the most in 2011 announced Sony Ericssons running on Googles mobile OS.

The company sold in the second quarter of this year, 7.6 million devices, representing a loss of 50 million euro turnover. Thus knew Sony Ericsson was 31% less phones to sell than in the same period of 2010, when there were 12 million euro profit was made. In the first quarter of this year was the joint venture of 11 million euro profit at a sales of 8.1 million phones.

According to Sony Ericsson, the lower telefoonverkopen in particular, due to the earthquake that earlier this year struck Japan. The natural disaster resulted, among other things, for a lack of spare parts; the company claims that resulted in 1.5 million fewer devices sold could be. The telefoonverkoop runs, however, already some quarters in a row.

The phone maker expects to sell in the remaining two quarters of this year will increase, although there is no large growth is expected. Sony Ericsson relies mainly on its Xperia smartphones with Android, of which there are now a total of 16 million units shipped.

Compared with a year earlier, there were one and a half times as many Xperia devices sold. In the now-ended quarter came in two models: the Xperia Arc and the PlayStation phone Xperia Play. The release of the mid-range phone in the Xperia Neo had to be postponed and also the Xperia Pro will be released only this fall. In addition, various Android devices announced, such as the sporttelefoon Xperia Active, the compact Xperia Ray.