Sony Ericsson Isn’t Going Windows Phone, After All

January 5, 2012 | By Liwen Guo

Seems like Sony Ericsson isn’t preparing a Windows Phone, after all. Two days ago, Sony Ericsson’s Dutch Twitter account tweeted a photo teasing a new phone, and that photo had a lot of tiles buried throughout – possibly hinting at the announcement of a Windows Phone 7 device next week at the Consumer Electronics Show. It was a bit far-fetched, sure, but a nice catch nonetheless.

Unfortunately, the handset maker just put up a new picture on Facebook, part of which you can see above. The interesting – disappointing – bit here is the bottom-right part: It clearly shows a button toggling between camera and video modes, and it’s definitely not the Metro style one as found on Windows Phone 7 devices.

So, it’s just another Android phone. But with marketing budgets of $200 million for the US alone and the launch of new LTE flagship devices from Nokia, HTC and Samsung, Windows Phone will hopefully do fine without Sony Ericsson.

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About Liwen Guo

I've been tinkering with smartphones since the old Windows Mobile days, creating the popular Livven Themes series. Since then I've moved on to an HTC HD2, running Windows Phone 7.5, and Galaxy Nexus, running Android 4.0. I also have an iPod touch. Visit my website and follow me on Twitter.

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Anonymous

Why would they? Sony can create their own phone and “own” the user experience…

And I wanna know why these “Hitler Youth” keep deleting my comments and trying to block me…
In the U.S. we have free speech..guess these MSFT people running this blog (pretending to be Hitler Youth)—can’t handle the truth…

MSFT will NEVER make a viable PHONE…PERIOD!

Tej Palladino Peters

Microsoft don’t make phones…

rsgx

@VoiceofReason2012:disqus This is where you’re wrong.

You see, while the WP7 platform is struggling to pick up marketshare, it is the most viable platform I’ve used.

Either way, I can’t remember the last time Sony Ericsson made a phone worth buying.

Keep trolling though, we’ll just ban your IP.
http://twitter.com/counterblow the person

unless Sony is also bringing their own camera app to bear. It might be like a Sony Cybershot phone or something.
http://twitter.com/azizinho Abdulaziz Alsaadi

It wasn’t far fetched to be honest that mug looked like a WP7 device.

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