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Article: Sony Ericsson meets pocket of resistance; Technology: Mobile phones The joint venture has already defied its critics once, writes Clayton Hirst, but now it must do the same again with an all-conquering 3G phone
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 14, 2004
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Katsumi Ihara slides his chair away from the table and rummages in
his jacket pockets. He pulls out a sleek mobile phone and carefully
places it on the table. Ihara reaches into another pocket and
produces another phone. Delving in his bag he reveals yet another top-
of-the-range mobile - and another, until four phones are lined up
neatly on the table in front of him.
Japanese businessmen are well known for their love of gadgets, but
even by this standard, Ihara's habit is excessive.
But he can be forgiven. As president of Sony Ericsson, it is part
of his job description to be well connected and to know the devices
inside out. "I have all the phones made by Sony Ericsson," he says,
before ...