Sony Ericsson still making money, to some surprise

The explosion of Android handsets has kept Sony Ericsson in profit, to the surprise of the markets, which were expecting a significant loss for the first quarter of 2011. With sales down by 23 per cent – to 8.1 million handsets – and gross revenue from those sales down to €1.1bn – from €1.4bn this time last year – one might be …

[Anonymous Coward]

All the while

Nokia shares continue to plummet. very soon Microsoft will be able to buy them outright, gut whats worthwhile and then toss them aside...

[Anonymous Coward]

What for?

They already have everything they needed from Nokia.

[Anonymous Coward]

including the PLAY and Neo...

Yet I haven't seen the latter in stores in my country.

Vapourware and vapourprofit perhaps

[spencer]

They make good phones..

They make good android devices - they've reduced the dev work required (they only have to put the polish on top of android now and make drivers) to get it to market - This equals profit...

[lglethal]

How much...

How much of that €11 million will go to the CEO (and the boards) bonuses, i wonder?

Would anyone like to hazard a guess? Anyone?

[Anonymous Coward]

11 million?

That's not even enough to fill up the executives' Porshes.

To put it perspective, Google made (net profit) two times that every single DAY of last year.

[Rich 30]

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The SE Play will flop. I think they are quite nice, but they dont seem to be selling. The Arc looks lovely though.

I think they need to release a few very cheap handsets, ie the sub £20 market.

[Sly]

Sony can't do software...

so let Google do it.

So Sony Ericsson makes hardware that is just as cheap as every other made in China phone and finally get a brain cell to outsource their programming by using a product available from another company that knows what they're doing. Considering my last SE phone needed to be rebooted every other day just to be able to switch towers, I wouldn't buy another SE product to save my life. (yea, it would lock into one tower and not switch off of it to other towers. Very strange thing.)