Sony has taken full control of JV Sony Ericsson, making the unit a 100% owned division of Sony. The deal, pegged at €1.1bn, includes some patents and patent licenses.

From the article, "Earlier this month, Sony Ericsson broke even in its third quarter and announced it would focus on smartphones from 2012.

The company said its Xperia smartphones accounted for 80% of its sales. The handsets run Google's Android operating system.

Analysts said Sony had proved resistant to sharing its brands and other assets with the joint venture, explaining why it took until this year for PlayStation games to be offered on any of its handsets."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15473954

I had a Sony J5 handset back in the day. What a strange handset that was! There's no doubt in my mind that Ericsson gave Sony's handset ambitions legitimacy, but that all started to fall by the wayside a few years back. Now that handsets need only be a collection of generic components capable of running Android, perhaps this is the right time for Sony to take handset creation back in-house.