Northern, WI 1/22/2013 (usmarketbuzz) – Sony Corp., the Tokyo-based company, is focused on mobile devices and is going to produce this year a new tablet computer, after his debut in 2011 with its first tablet.
With no price decide yet, the Xperia Tablet Z will have those dimensions, as Sony declared in a statement today: 27 inches thick, a 10.1 inch display and 17 ounces weigh. With this tablet, the electronics manufacturer, striving after four annual losses, will try to tempt clients from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Samsung, as Sony is facing competition from the Kindle Fire from Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Nexus 7, from Google Inc. In October, his competitor Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) introduced a smaller version of the iPad with prices starting from $329 and a dimension of 7.9 inch.
The Japan Company grew 3.3% to 1.187 yen, at the close of trading in Tokyo paring with 1.5% crash for the benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average.
For eight fiscal years the company’s TV units has been unprofitable, so his new target becomes a rational strategy, but the risky part of this type of business is that the tablets can conflict with laptop computers and Smartphones, as Keita Wakabayashi, an analyst at Mito Securities Co declared.
According to the data, the total of sales from mobile products and communication that Sony obtained was 18 %, in the quarter ended September.
The demand of tablets worldwide is significant, swimming in 2012 about 120 million and it’s estimated to reach 340 million by 2016.
Shares of Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) were up 0.61% to close at $272.12.
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares were down 0.53% to close at $500.