Sony Mobile is investigating its operations in Africa, Turkey and the Middle East

30 June 2018
The Japanese giant might be considering a restructure of the business and perhaps even downsizing.

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Sony smartphones have no personality - gigantic slabs with large bezels, not optimized cameras, nothing amazing except Sony trying very hard to make their products very shiny.

Their low end devices look and perform same functions as the high end ones. There are no worthy features that I can find that outdoes their competitors.

Even their wireless earphones are the ugliest, most short in battery life, and are buggy in connection! And they are priced as high as the competition.

I have bought like 5 wireless BT earphones, and were ahead, but now Samsung has IconX with 5 to 7 hours use time, built-in music of about 3.4 GB, and they are snug in the ears.

    Anonymous, 01 Jul 2018Their customer service is horrendousyes sony aftersale service is shit thats why they already history in my country while other phone maker like samsung, huawei, xiaomi, apple stood strong

      Geric.770, 01 Jul 2018Mobile division aside, their other products are excellent. Hmmm?in my country their mobile division already history while their other product like television, console, refrigerator, sound system, dvd/bluray player still sell a lot

        no surprise here, they already shutdown in my country becoz bad costumer service/after sales service and terrible durability and faulty device and of course samsung streamrolled th in my country in term costumer service/after sales service and much durable device and have very good resale value after iphone device

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          • Anonymous
          • XNU
          • 01 Jul 2018

          Turkey is also middle east. Middle east has nothing to do with development it is a culture and geography thing.

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            • Anonymous
            • HBG
            • 01 Jul 2018

            I'm living in the middle east, from my deep heart I will miss Sony, I did not use any smart phone else except Sony.

              Sony need to get out of indian mobile market too. We not waana pay premium amount for sony anymore.

                Anonymous, 01 Jul 2018From ashes, if nokia can come back with impressive phones, ... moreNokia is not nokia mobile

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                  • Anonymous
                  • tht
                  • 01 Jul 2018

                  ., 01 Jul 2018The process up to the purchase of Sony phones is very nice,... moreyes i understand.
                  for the same reason, sony mobile has been banished from my country since end of 2015. no one missing sony. people live happy with iphones, galaxies, asus, any many other brands.

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                    • Anonymous
                    • Q}4
                    • 01 Jul 2018

                    Tyrone1, 01 Jul 2018 It is better that in underdeveloped countries sell Samsung... morexperia's service is also very bad here in usa. i've never seen anyone using xperia in us/canada.
                    are you sure my country is underdeveloped?

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                      • Anonymous
                      • I8m
                      • 01 Jul 2018

                      Cali , 01 Jul 2018Only true Sony cell fans stick it out in a positive manner,... moreLike you? Only true fans can see the facts

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                        • Anonymous
                        • I8m
                        • 01 Jul 2018

                        ., 01 Jul 2018The process up to the purchase of Sony phones is very nice,... moreTheir customer service is horrendous

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                          • Anonymous
                          • I8m
                          • 01 Jul 2018

                          bezel yucks, 01 Jul 2018Sony reminds me of Nokia of the past.Back then nokia thinks... moreTheir previpus design even with more bezels was still elegant and pleasing. This new design is crap. It's cheap, lost its originality, and has massive waisted space.

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                            • tR6
                            • 01 Jul 2018

                            Sony reminds me of Nokia of the past.Back then nokia thinks their symbian os is the king and ignore every assumption that they are dying. Same goes for Sony.They keep harping on their design factor, how they slim the bezel but put the phone side by side and they are still very ugly with that thick bezel.

                              Wow, they shutting down operations in countries where people for past 1000 years are more interested in shooting each other rather than develop, make their lives better and buy phones...

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                                • tu6
                                • 01 Jul 2018

                                [deleted post]Well, you still has apple to mock

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                                  • Winston
                                  • snT
                                  • 01 Jul 2018

                                  [deleted post]Someone, who doesn't know that sentences should start with capital letters, shouldn't mock anyone or anything.

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                                    • p2v
                                    • 01 Jul 2018

                                    The process up to the purchase of Sony phones is very nice,
                                    but after you have received it, you should wait for a long time for any problem, malfunction, error, faulty product,
                                    after a month the result is a user error,
                                    According to Sony, any problem is a problem user error.
                                    According to Sony mobile always the user error.
                                    we pay money for every problem,
                                    Sony phone are always faulty,
                                    the guarantee is terrible,
                                    attention in the warranty period is zero,
                                    we go to permanent consumer courts and find our right,
                                    Turkey this is the case also states , I am of those who victimized in this regard,
                                    I think they took the right decision with retreat,
                                    a company that does not stand behind its products,
                                    any problem is out of warranty, you have to pay for repair, Sony mobile thinks people are stupid.. bye bye sony mobile ..

                                      It is better that in underdeveloped countries sell Samsung and Chinese mobile phones. What does an African want the latest in technology?

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                                        • Anonymous
                                        • ypY
                                        • 01 Jul 2018

                                        From ashes, if nokia can come back with impressive phones, why can't sony?
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                                        They think like their phones are no1 in the world no matter what users want