
The company, a joint venture between L.M. Ericsson and Sony Corp, plans to launch the Xperia ray and Xperia active models during the third quarter, its chiefmarketing officer Steve Walker announced.
The new models should help the company expand its 11% market share of the Android segment, Walker said.
"Android smartphones is a rapidly growing part of the market, and we see our share within that market growing," Walker told The Associated Press.
London-based Sony Ericsson, which saw its phone unit sales drop 23% in the first quarter from a year earlier, is moving away from cheaper phone models and seeking to take on Apple Inc's iPhone, Research in Motion's Blackberry and Nokia Corp's N9 in the higher-priced smartphone segment.