Sony to outsource up to 40% of phone manufacturing?

07 November, 2012
Sony reportedly plans to ship 50 million phones next year, Foxconn and others to help build them.

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  • 07 Nov 2012

Anonymous, 07 Nov 2012Quality of new low end Sony Xperia is not good so i am not ... moreFoxconn's Clients

Acer Inc.
Amazon.com
Apple Inc.
Cisco
Dell
Hewlett-Packard
Microsoft
Motorola Mobility
Nintendo
Nokia
Samsung Electronics (South Korea)[48]
Sony (Japan)

These are foxconns clients bro.

Also Sony plans to manufacture 40 million units, but I doubt they will sell 40 million units. But either way, good risk. Samsung success comes from their cheap low end phones, sony is going to try to replicate this sucess by following Samsungs way of doing things. Cheap low end cell phones, and many models of it. Good job Sony

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    • majid
    • HFg
    • 07 Nov 2012

    this means that sony phones will lose their quality. the most concern for me is loosing their camera quality because their phones usually have the best cameras among phones.

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      • Anonym
      • N$i
      • 07 Nov 2012

      Anonymous, 07 Nov 2012Quality of new low end Sony Xperia is not good so i am not ... moreI honestly cannot see how you can equate Foxconn to the lack of quality in Sony low-ends.
      Within the tech world, Foxconn assembles everything and in every range (from the rock-bottom to the very high-end). Sticking just to phones, last time I have checked, Apple and their iPhone were relying on build quality and stunning looks to make sales (guess who assembles them? Yap. Foxconn!).

      The thing is, if the contracting company (Sony) drafts a product with crap quality and crap materials then the assembler (Foxconn) will not do any magic and make it any better.
      You can blame the assembler all you want, but the crap didn't come from them, it came from whoever wanted it that way.

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        • kakooli
        • d$J
        • 07 Nov 2012

        Anonymous, 07 Nov 2012Sony (Ericsson) is a small company. it doesn't even have it... moreSo is apple, they use foxconn, samsung does, ace, asus.

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          • Anonymous
          • vaN
          • 07 Nov 2012

          Quality of new low end Sony Xperia is not good so i am not surprised to read that foxconn made them, i did use Tipo for a while and it ha flaws, but that could also be because of Sony bloatware in Timescape.

          Im using Galaxy Note II now and its real good but i miss Xperia and hope i can upgrade to a Sony Yuga soon. I will not miss Samsungs Touchwiz, its awkward and has many useless things and lacks some useful things.

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            • Anonymous
            • mNZ
            • 07 Nov 2012

            Anonymous, 07 Nov 2012i just came here to say first, but too late, by the way i l... morei don't think that this will happen. at least not till 2014. Google tend to stick with one manufacturer for 2 year so 2013 is still LG

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              • bubu
              • myV
              • 07 Nov 2012

              make the best phone

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                • sony fan
                • uv8
                • 07 Nov 2012

                guys next year sony beats smartphone market

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                  • Anonymous
                  • thu
                  • 07 Nov 2012

                  Sony (Ericsson) is a small company. it doesn't even have its own factory and has to manufactures its phone using someone else's factory.
                  so, this is not news.

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                    • kamlesh
                    • Hkq
                    • 07 Nov 2012

                    when will be available Sony xperia acro s in India

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                      • Afn5
                      • mJD
                      • 07 Nov 2012

                      Anonymous, 07 Nov 2012i just came here to say first, but too late, by the way i l... moreI would totally buy it !

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                        • sigsegv
                        • mxH
                        • 07 Nov 2012

                        Anonymous, 07 Nov 2012i just came here to say first, but too late, by the way i l... moreWell, looking at their performance in the past years, going from 35 to 50 millions units - that's a +40% year-to-year - it is either them going insane or a Sony Nexus...

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                          • Sappa
                          • MVg
                          • 07 Nov 2012

                          Make better cameras plz

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                            • Anonymous
                            • 4@9
                            • 07 Nov 2012

                            i just came here to say first, but too late, by the way i like Sony, by the way what i really want is a nexus made by Sony, anybody have any rumors of this coming?

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                              • Anonymous
                              • fj1
                              • 07 Nov 2012

                              not good i dont like foxconn

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                                • Zony
                                • fqf
                                • 07 Nov 2012

                                Bye Sony!
                                You became like Nokia with cheap build quality.

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                                  • Yam
                                  • PF5
                                  • 07 Nov 2012

                                  Sony

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                                    • vikky
                                    • 98W
                                    • 07 Nov 2012

                                    good


                                    but Rs not mensonn

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                                      • vikkk
                                      • 98W
                                      • 07 Nov 2012

                                      very good