{"id":52605,"date":"2025-08-08T11:58:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/52605\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T11:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:58:06","slug":"sony-insists-xperia-phones-are-very-important-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/52605\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony insists Xperia phones are \u2018very important\u2019 to it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">CFO Lin Tao mentioned Sony\u2019s beleaguered phone brand at the company\u2019s recent financial results presentation, calling it \u201ca very important business for us,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/article\/35236485\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CNET Japan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Once upon a time, Xperia mattered to Sony because it still held a healthy chunk of Japan\u2019s phone market. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2024-05-08\/sony-xperia-is-dying-out-as-it-fails-to-compete-with-apple-samsung-google\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">That\u2019s no longer true<\/a>, so if Xperia really is still important, I\u2019m not sure why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CFO Lin Tao mentioned Sony\u2019s beleaguered phone brand at the company\u2019s recent financial results presentation, calling it \u201ca&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[786,2306,50,6994,622,227,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-52605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-gadgets","tag-mobile","tag-news","tag-phones","tag-sony","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}