Sony Ericsson today officially joined the Open Handset Alliance, paving way for its handhelds running on the Android platform. “Sony Ericsson is excited to announce its membership of the Open Handset Alliance and confirm its intention to develop a handset based on the Android platform,” said Rikko Sakaguchi, CVP and head of Creation and Development at Sony Ericsson. “We believe Sony Ericsson can bring a wealth of experience in making consumer focused multimedia handsets with new user experience to the Alliance drawing on the successes of the Walkman and Cyber-shot sub-brands.  Sony Ericsson is a strong supporter of open operating systems and we believe the Open Handset Alliance offers an exciting opportunity for a new and unique user experience only Sony Ericsson can deliver.”

The Swedish handset vendor will contine its multi-OS portfolio that will include Windows Mobile and Symbian apart from Android. Sony Ericsson joins the rank of Samsung, Motorola and LG, with all of them betting on all the three prominent mobile OS available in the market today.