{"id":740938,"date":"2013-03-07T15:09:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T20:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=362993"},"modified":"2013-03-07T15:09:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T20:09:39","slug":"sonys-surprising-smartphone-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/740938","title":{"rendered":"Sony\u2019s surprising smartphone comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/sonys-smartphone-market-gains-362993\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"650\" height=\"653\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/02\/bgr-bgr-p10409911.jpg?w=650&#038;h=653&#038;crop=1&#038;resize=650%2C653\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Sony Smartphone Market Gains\" title=\"Sony Xperia Z\" \/><\/a><\/center>Over the past few months, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2012\/10\/19\/rim-nokia-strategy-financial-analysis\/\">much ink has been spilled over<\/a> whether <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/nokia\">Nokia<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=nok\">NOK<\/a>) or <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/blackberry\">BlackBerry<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=bbry\">BBRY<\/a>) have a chance to stage a strong recovery. After a dismal two years, <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/sony\">Sony's<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=sne\">SNE<\/a>) chances in the smartphone market have largely been written off. However, over the past month <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/25\/sony-xperia-z-hands-on-342997\/\">the new Sony Xperia Z has shown remarkable strength<\/a> in Europe and some Asian markets. In the second half of February, the Xperia Z <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/140_000_xperia_z_units_shipped_in_japan_in_week_one-news-5579.php\">sold out<\/a> in Japan and France during its launch. And this wasn't a small volume sell out \u2014 the phone shifted 140,000 units at Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo in one week.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/07\/sonys-smartphone-market-gains-362993\/?utm_source=more-link&utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading...<\/em><\/a><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/gFYU2cgqIt8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past few months, much ink has been spilled over whether Nokia (NOK) or BlackBerry (BBRY) have a chance to stage a strong recovery. After a dismal two years, Sony&#8217;s (SNE) chances in the smartphone market have largely been written off. However, over the past month the new Sony Xperia Z has shown remarkable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4926,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12070,4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-36KC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}