Sony now has to compete against VAIO’s new #android phone
Sony sold off its PC-focused VAIO division back in 2014, but the brand lived on under new management. Now, it’s come back to haunt the tech giant in the mobile market, with a new Android-powered VAIO handset announced today — the VAIO Phone A.
This isn’t the first VAIO mobile we’ve seen. That would be the VAIO Phone Biz, announced in February last year. The Phone Biz and Phone A have pretty much identical looks and specs (including a 5.5-inch HD screen, 3GB of RAM, and a mid-range Snapdragon 617 processor), but while the Phone Biz was powered by Windows 10, the Phone A runs what looks to be stock Android. That means it competes much more directly with Sony’s own phone business, which accounts for 12 percent of the mobile market in Japan,…
