14 DAY TRIAL // Japanese Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson is considering the possibility to launch a Windows Phone device, but it won't have one on shelves as of yet, it seems.
This is not the first time we learn this, and it seems that, even if several months have passed since the company made this statement, no changed in their plans was noticed.
For the time being, the company it waiting for the operating system to take off, and only then they would launch a handsets running under it.
Jan Uddenfeldt, Chief Technology Officer and head of Sony Ericsson Silicon Valley, was the one to confirm this during Sony Ericsson's annual Business Innovations Forum held at Stanford.
According to the latest reports on the matter, Uddenfeldt explained that the company is currently focused on the release of Android-based devices, and that Windows Phone plans were put on hold for the time being.
Currently, the company is set to bring to shelves the latest Xperia devices, the Xperia PLAY PlayStation phone included, and hopes that they would help it regain some of the lost ground on the market.
Undoubtedly, the latest Android-based handsets from the company are as appealing as they can be, and they should help the vendor increase its market share, though looking at other mobile platforms too might not be a bad idea.
Other companies already have Windows Phone devices on shelves, and Nokia, the largest phone maker in the world, is gearing up for the launch of its first such devices.
Sony Ericsson would be late to the party, which might not be a good thing at all for them, even if they did a similar move with Android, and still managed to lure a lot of users.
One way or the other, a Sony Ericsson Windows Phone might not be that far in the future after all.
Some of the latest analyst reports place Windows Phone on the top position on the market in the next three years or so, which means that the Japanese-Swedish joint-venture might step in soon, to take advantage of this explosive growth.