SONY VAIO PHONE!

Hi! Anyone heard of a Sony Vaio phone that would obviously run on Microsoft's latest, windows phone 8 OS? What do you think of this phone? This would be a nice complement to Sony's VAIO range of laptops and hybrids if ever this will be conceptualized. What do you guys think?

Sony is only working with Android at the moment, based on past comments by Sony's CEO there's no way that Sony will work on Windows mobile, why? because sony won't have any way to improve or include their skin/User Interface the only difference between winmo phones are hardware based.
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unrelated topic, if you have some time please check this thread
http://talk.sonymobile.com/message/244522#244522
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    ================================================================
    Doc ID:
    Note:131299.1
    Subject:
    Oracle Installer 8.1.X Hangs on Machines with Pentium 4
    Processors
    Type:
    ALERT
    Status:
    PUBLISHED
    Content
    Type:
    TEXT/PLAIN
    Creation
    Date:
    02-JAN-2001
    Last
    Revision Date:
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    This alert was modified 16-January-2001 by specifying specific
    Oracle Universal
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    Processors
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Versions Affected
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Oracle 8.1.5
    ============
    Oracle Universal Installer 1.6.0.9.0
    Oracle 8.1.6
    =============
    Oracle Universal Installer 1.7.0.19.0
    Oracle 8.1.7
    ==============
    Oracle Universal Installer 1.7.1.9.0
    Platforms Affected
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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    Description
    ~~~~~~~~~~~
    When installing Oracle Products with the Oracle Universal
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    "Symantec Java! JustInTime Compiler Version 3.10.107 for
    JDK 1.2 Copyright (C)
    1996-99 Symantec Corporation Dynamic Link Library file".
    DLLs older than this will also not work. "
    Likelihood of Occurrence
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Any platform that uses the Intel Pentium 4 processor, with the
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    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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    ~~~~~~~~~~
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    [BUG:1507768] INSTALLER FAILS WHEN RUNNING ON NEW PENTIUM 4
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    Oracle
    Support Services.
    Copyright (c) 1995,2000 Oracle Corporation. All Rights
    Reserved. Legal Notices and Terms of Use.
    ================================================================
    The solution of making a local copy of the installation CD on
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    C:\Oracle\stage\Components\oracle.swd.jre\1.1.7.30\1
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    4 - Execute the Oracle setup.exe from C:\Oracle\setup.exe
    ===============================================================
    When Oracle 8i dies on the install or the installer hangs, here is the fix for this, make sure that you have Service Pack 2 installed.
    1. \JRE\1.3.1\ From Sun. (You can download java program at http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/jre/download-jre-windows.html)
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    5. Install Oracle from the win32 directory.
    ================================================================
    PLEASE NOTE THAT ORACLE DOESN'T SUPPORT THE USE OF THOSE PRODUCTS IN WINDOWS ME, BUT HAVE AUTHORIZED THESE WORKAROUNDS FOR TESTING PURPOSES ONLY

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