Sony insists Xperia phones are ‘very important’ to it

This year’s Xperia 1 VII has been plagued by problems.

CFO Lin Tao mentioned Sony’s beleaguered telephone marque astatine the company’s caller fiscal results presentation, calling it “a precise important concern for us,” according to CNET Japan.

You could person fooled me. Sony’s last two Xperia 1 flagships person skipped the US marketplace entirely, and it appears to beryllium pulling backmost successful Europe too. It doesn’t adjacent make the phones itself anymore, it axed the smaller Xperia 5 enactment 2 years ago, and truthful acold there’s nary motion of the cheaper Xperia 10 VII. Oh, and did I notation it had to halt income of the caller 1 VII and contented replacements for defective models?

Once upon a time, Xperia mattered to Sony due to the fact that it inactive held a steadfast chunk of Japan’s telephone market. That’s nary longer true, truthful if Xperia truly is inactive important, I’m not definite why.