Swedish Telecommunication successes: SonyEricsson and Skype

Sony, a leading Japanese company in consumer electronics, and Ericsson, a Swedish leader in telecommunications, were combined for the development, manufacturing and marketing of mobile phones. They have representatives in different continents.
Sony and Ericsson Thus, Sony Ericsson released its first joint product on the market in March 2002. One of the models was T68 which was actually a clean Ericsson model but then the name was changed to the Sony Ericsson T68i.
Under the new name was their biggest seller, a new joint design, Sony Ericsson T610.
Today the company has approximately 8450 employees at its headquarters in London and the office in Lund and Hassleholm in Sweden, in Tokyo, Beijing, Manchester, and also the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, USA.
The Lund office is the biggest office of them all.
The products are available in four different lines, three of them are designed for GSM / UMTS network and is sold throughout the world and then there is a range of Japanese mobile phone networks.
The handsets that are more like a PDA (smartphones) developed in Kista (Stockholm) and in Manchester.

Product lines:

C-Series - Replaces the old K-series from the quarter in 2008, such as "Cyper-Shot" and "C510-C905"
G-Series - Generation Web "- phones as marketing fit for those who surf a lot.
K-series - Camera phones. Invest more in camera functions, often called double front with one side like a mobile and the other look like a digital camera.
S-Series-"slide" phones.
W-Series-Mobile launched under the name of Walkman, these phones are music-oriented handsets.
X-Series - XPERIA mobiles. Was released around the beginning of last year (2010)
European-Series - Entertainment Unlimited. “All-in-one-phones”, such as Satio, Aino and Yari.
Z-series - clamshell phones (fashion-oriented mobile phones) like Clamzhell.

Skype

Skype is a software application that allows users to make voice calls and chats over the internet. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free, while calls to both traditional landline telephones and mobile phone can be made for a fee using a debit based user account system. Skype has also become popular for its additional features which include instant messaging, file transfer and video conferencing. Skype has 663 million registered users as of 2010. Skype was founded in 2003 by the Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Zennström and Dane Janus Friis.

Skype´ homepage: http://www.skype.com/intl/en/welcomeback/

Written by Jenny&Nam.