What Happened to Sony Ericsson? The fall of a giant...

Title of this video: What Happened to Sony Ericsson? The fall of a giant...

Topics covered in this video:
sony ericsson
what happened to sony ericsson
does sony make smartphones
why did sony ericsson fail
The Rise and Fall of Sony Ericsson. sony ericsson history
sony ericsson startup history
Evolution of Sony Ericsson Startup
Sony Ericsson Evolution

[antonhariwirawan]

I was Sony Ericsson die hard fans, owned W810i, W850i, W900i, W950i, and K850i. Truly great phone!!!

[favoritvario]

Around 2006 to 2007 all "cool guys" at school had Sony-Ericsson phones standing together during breaks and sending "funny" videos, images and ringtones to each other via Bluetooth.

[mel_arky]

The AI voice ruins this for me, too distracting

[CollinAbroadcast]

Those Cybershot phones were ahead of their time. I remember pulling one out in 09 when it was still normal to carry around a digital camera to party's and people couldn't believe the phone photo looked better than their camera

[leightaylor]

I had a Sony-Ericsson W810i, it sounded so good, and those were by far the best years of my life, I was young and life was so much more fun back then. Miss those years

[Rajesh]

2005 internal Phone storage:- 40MB
2024 cache and junk files :- 4Gb
💀 How tf we evolved this fast

[thabs]

I had the w800 back in High school. I wish I still ha dit. The audio quality with those walkman earphones was superb.

[The_Prizessin_der_Verurteilung]

On the article "Sony killed the PlayStation phone" where you said "people blame Sony for the tragedy", I honestly agree with the notion.
The Xperia Play was a solid phone, and they didn't support it one bit, and at the same time, they released the Vita, an actual PlayStation. And like the Xperia Play, they didn't support and killed IT too. And their Xperia line was a solid line, but they always fumbled them in one way or another too, but when Ericsson was still involved, they were truly solid.
Sony with mobile devices is like water and oil, except oil and water probably go together better.

[alinayossimouse]

The delivery of the voice over is very distracting. Is that an AI voice?

[rkvrakav]

Nokia Sony and Motorola... Legends of the mobile industry died...

[GeoNeilUK]

You mentioned what is in my opinion the biggest nail in Sony Ericsson's coffin - Memory Stick.

Sony stuck with the Memory Stick long after all of their competitors standardised around MicroSD. If you were upgrading from a phone from a manufacturer that wasn't from Sony Ericsson and had a bunch of media on a MicroSD, what Sony did was vendor lock *OUT.*

Nail 2 in Sony Ericsson's coffin - not putting a standard 3.5mm headphone jack on their Walkman phones and sticking with the propietary Ericsson connector.

Also, regarding gaming phones, hilariously, we would eventually get the Xperia Play.

And the thing about UIQ is, it was never as popular as Nokia's UIs and Series 60 and UIQ were mutually incompatible. They were both interfaces for the same OS - Symbian, but Series 60 apps wouldn't run on UIQ so UIQ had a serious lack of software problem.

Finally, my current phone is a Sony, spiritually a Sony Ericsson phone. And it takes a MicroSD card!

[ksr]

What kind of idiots will dismantled a r/d department?

[craigjoe]

The T610 was the GOAT. the nipple joystick navigation was intuitive and it was a tank of a device.

[greenMitsi]

that walkman brand is iconic, bring sony ericcson back

[lord]

Sony Ericsson was a true love for me. I had so many phones from them - 5x K750i, W800, K550, P910, P990, K850, C905, W995, Vivaz, Satio, Xperia X1 and my most favored W900. Flashing Main and FS, new FW from another model, new camdrivers, flash menu, vkp patches...man, so many memories. Thanks for this vid, it made my day 🤩

[SPINNINGMYWHEELS]

I haven't watched this..but I was a tech support for Sony Ericsson in the mid 2000's and when we heard 'apple' was going to be added to our roster - that was the day Sony Ericsson died in this market - We saw the prototype for the Iphone - in like Jan 2007 - I quit not long after as I wasn't a fan of apple but man those employees and managers were so hyped up on this - the floor managers ect appeared to have gotten some payout by apple to endorse it to the tech support people how excited they were .

[rokon]

Back in 2005, my dad had one. I was fascinated by its logo design back then. Nowadays, all logos are flat...

[cholasimmons]

Mahn, my girl had the W800i, it was given to me when she passed. Cant never forget that beauty. Awesome audio

[TheTruthDragonNJ]

Protip: If you're going to use an "American" AI voice model, don't use "Zed" in your script to say "Z" since that's not the way it's said by them. It's said "Zee" there.

[tonetburac]

Sony Ericsson was ahead before the birth of smartphones.