Seems very reasonable from Ericsson's point of view, and was probably just a matter of time. Sony Ericsson has moved away from using the hardware platforms del

Seems very reasonable from Ericsson's point of view, and was probably just a matter of time. Sony Ericsson has moved away from using the hardware platforms delevoped by ST-Ericsson (since they have been too late to market) and using Qualcom like many other Android handset makers which means there's little point in keeping them in their portfolio. Also, with the standardized features of all Android phones, it won't help in selling new end-to-end network features to operators either since most handsets support the same features. Sony Ericsson has been quite late in launching new features (still no LTE phones for example), so Ericsson was already relying on other partners to support deals with operators. Hopefully this makes Ericsson focus on their competency (networks) and allows Sony to do something interesting with the mobile phone branch.