ABOUT SONY ERICSSON

Sony and Ericsson merged to make a new company in 2001. They are in the process in using 3G technologies to improve their mobile phone handsets even more. Before this they were just two companies, Sony involved in consumer electrics and Ericsson involved in the telecommunications industry.

Sony

Sony was founded by Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita and was originally named Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo (Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering Company). After World War 2, Japan was economy was poor but this didn’t disrupt Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita global expansion vision. They expanded to the US and later Europe.

After expanding, there original name TTK, was being used by another company so to achieve company originality they changed the companies name to Sony in 1958.

From this point Sony grew and grew to become one of the most popular brands of electrics, producing Televisions, computer, audio equipment and much more. In 1968 Sony UK was founded in London.

Ericsson

Surprisingly Ericsson it much more an older company than its partner in Sony Ericsson, Sony.

In 1876, a man named Lars Magnus Ericsson had a shop mending telegraph equipment in Stockholm, Sweden which coincided with Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone in the US and Bell’s telephones started on sale in Sweden the following year. Ericsson started to repair telephone equipment and in 1885, the company produced it first handsets and still does today.

1900, Managing Director and founder Lars Magnus Ericsson resigned from his post and in 1903 LM Ericsson resigned from the board altogether. Ericsson was active in Scandinavia, UK, USA, Germany, The Netherlands, Russia, Spain, Egypt, Ethiopia, South Africa, China, Asia, and Oceania.

Ericsson then grows and advances through both World Wars and increasing gains influence in the US through up to 1987.

1987, Ericsson produces the first mobile phone for the NMT Network. Also the not released network, GSM has been chosen for the first European mobile network.

1992, the GSM network was launched in Europe. Ericsson started to make more and more mobiles to keep up with the demand. 1998, Symbian is established, joint venture between Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, Panasonic and Psion.

SOURCE:- http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws