Sony Ericsson recently moved to protect the trademark Xperia.
The trademark is in relation to “cellular or mobile phones featuring the capacity to function in any number of extra ways beyond just a phone.”
What’s so interesting about this? Well the trademark filing goes on to say that Xperia will function as:
(paraphrased from the filing) “function as a camera; perform instant messaging; access and communicate with e-mail; access and communicate with the Internet; function as a radio, to record, play, transmit, receive, and/or manage music; record, play, transmit, receive, edit, and/or manage video; create, view, transmit, receive, edit, and/or manage photographs; play electronic games; upload photographs and text onto online journals or web logs; function as a personal digital assistant (PDA); function as walkie-talkies; perform satellite navigation; function as a remote control for computers and run multimedia presentations,” to name a few — which leads to the conclusion that Xperia will likely be used as the model name for some future superphone (the rumored P5i, perhaps?) or as a new series of devices in the same vein as the Walkman and Cyber-shot lines.
It sounds like a high-end device so here is hoping that Sony Ericsson are taking on the NSeries. If we are really fortunate Xperia won’t just be one handset, but that rather a series of handset akin to the NSeries.
You can read the full trademark filing here.
Via: Trademork
January 28th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
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