Sony Ericsson President Bert Nordberg spent his first six months on the job slashing costs and paring projects to get the handset maker out of the red. The payoff came Friday: a first-quarter profit of $28.4 million that ended nearly two years of losses.
Nordberg, who previously headed Silicon Valley research and development efforts for Sony Ericsson parent Ericsson ( ERIC - news - people ), isn't resting yet. In the coming months Sony Ericsson will launch smartphones with U.S. carriers, introduce a handset based on Microsoft's ( MSFT - news - people ) new Windows Phone 7 software and tie its phones to parent company Sony's TVs and computers, Nordberg told Forbes during a meeting in New York. Sony Ericsson is also considering developing non-phone devices and collaborating with Google ( GOOG - news - people ) on a Google-designed phone that would be sold online, Nordberg said.
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