"Sony Ericsson's position as one of the first handset makers to provide and encourage open platforms and the development of add-on applications for its phones gives the company a strong position against competitors who opt for primarily closed platforms."
Interesting article about the past, present, and future of mobile technology from Sony Ericsson's point of view.
"Currently we are focusing on four or five different areas. Music and gaming are two of the very important ones. Another area is imaging -- photo blogging, video blogging, different photo editing applications like face warp, which is preloaded on our cybershot phones. It's a silly application, but a lot of people really enjoy it and they save the photo and send it to friends. That sort of application that enhances the use of the camera and makes people do more than just take pictures and store them on the device is something that we see growing. A lot of the interactivity with the phone, using web services or storing images or accessing databases, is something we think will grow. In terms of Web communications we are working on productive mobility which deals with everything from push email clients and office applications, to mobile navigation applications or a business card scanner.
And the fifth area that we see evolving is mobile TV, video, and film. So far, the majority of the content is not programming or creating software -- it's more content that you can transfer to your phone and watch. In the future we're talking a lot about time shifting and watching things on demand. We see a lot of interest in this area, but quite honestly technology hasn't matured yet."
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