VAIO plans to become a strong competitor to Sony in the mobile market. It has already secured a Japanese mobile operators, and in cooperation with the mobile operator B-Mobile will sell its first smartphone VAIO Phone in the local market at a price of 51,000 yen (about $ 410).
Sources say that VAIO plans to release in the future their own tablet.
Sony announced recently that in the past fiscal year, which began in April 2014 and ended in March 2015, it had sold 41 million smartphones, which is 5% higher than a year earlier.