In midsummer, a multitude of firms take the opportunity to show their results coinciding with the change of quarter, and more broadly, also with the closing of the corresponding balance sheet with the first six months of the year. The data corresponding to both periods can be decisive for the strategies that the different actors in the sector will follow in the future.
A few hours ago the figures related to the sale of family terminals were known Xperia in recent months. Next we will tell you more about them and we will see if there have been advances or setbacks within the Japanese technology compared to 2016 and previous years. How is the public receiving what are currently the crown jewels of the creator of PlayStation in the smartphone format?
The data
De april to july, the Japanese technology company has managed to sell some 3,4 million of terminals of the Xperia range as collected from GSMArena after collecting the data provided by the firm. This represents an advance of half a million terminals compared to the first quarter of 2017 and an increase of about 300.000 compared to the same year last year. However, this figure is far from the record achieved in the last section of 2014, when 14,4 million units were exceeded.
Source: GSMArena
Financial results improve
From the Japanese company they affirm that the income of the smartphone division has decreased but that instead, they have been offset by an increase in profits on other platforms and a better efficiency of the resources allocated to R&D. These two factors have served to increase the firm's earnings in the last quarter to reach the 3,6 trillion yen.
Forecasts
The section of tablets and smartphones It is one of the sources of income for technology. Therefore, a series of goals have been established to achieve in them that in the case of Xperia models has been established in the commercialization of 16,5 million of devices throughout 2017. During the big technological events that have yet to be held, such as the IFA in Berlin, we could see the company's big bets for the final stretch of the year. Do you think that future models like the Xperia XUltra will serve to reach this goal? What do you think about the latest financial results of Sony? Do they accuse the Chinese push? You have more related information available, such as the status of the accounts of Huawei so that you think yourselves.