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Sony Won't License Playstation Brand to Sony Ericsson

 

Published 1/17/2009 by Pulkit Chandna at Maximum PC all RSS Feed

If Mobile Today is to believed, all those rumors about the PSP phone were indeed true . According to a report, which cites anonymous sources, Sony disallowed Sony Ericsson’s request to use the Playstation brand in December. Sources have revealed that Sony told the mobile phone manufacturer that the only way the Playstation brand can appear on a cellphone is when it independently makes such a device. It is claimed that Sony is reluctant to license the Playstation brand for a product that doesn’t conform to the lofty technological standards the brand is associated with. read more (link)

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