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Byline: SHIHOKO GOTO
WASHINGTON, July 14 (UPI) -- Competition usually means more choices and cheaper prices for customers, but for companies, it can mean a hard slog ahead even at the best of times.
So while mobile-phone manufacturers continue to do brisk business as demand for ever-more sophisticated, multi-functioning handsets keeps on rising, sales aren't necessarily leading to profits for some companies, while for others, the good times are rolling as consumers worldwide keep gobbling up the smaller, slicker, faster, more powerful handsets.
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications, for one, is certainly not complaining about market conditions. The…