Manufacturing Magazine October 2022 | Page 100

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Sony

Founded in 1946
With its arsenal of electronics – including televisions , headphones and cameras – some people are unaware that Sony even manufactures phones . Outside of this , Sony also has stakes in film , music , biotechnology and electric vehicles ( following a recent partnership with Honda ).
The Japanese tech titan came out with the Sony Xperia in 2008 , releasing new , updated models regularly to keep up with customer expectations . But smartphone competition is causing sales to slump year on year : over the past two years , sales have dropped by 3.6 million units .

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Google

Founded in 1998
There are 5.6 billion Google searches every day . Since 1998 , the search engine has been answering questions , but , in 2010 , it also started answering phone calls with the Google Nexus . The All-Google phone , Nexus One , arrived in 2016 – an Android smartphone manufactured to offer clean software , an unbeatable camera , and limitless cloud storage for Google Photos . Other Google apps were also featured , including Maps , Gmail , YouTube and more .
The Nexus One is designed to work with Google Assistant , a virtual assistant software .