I’ve got a fond spot for Sony Ericsson having used their P900 for almost 18 months prior to this year so its good to hear that they’re moving on up in the world, having overtaken LG to move into fourth spot of the world’s handset manufacturer’s ranks while moving up to second place in the Taiwan market behind Nokia.

Its been four years now since Sony and Ericsson first got together, both companies having ceased making their own mobiles back in 2002 to concentrate on joint mobile production, since then the company has gone from strength to strength in terms of mobile production current league tables clearly backing that up, SE showing a 43% year-on-year increase in sales to ship almost 20 million handsets in the third quarter of this year alone.