Sony memory puts me off buying sony products and has stopped me buying a sony laptop, sony camcorder and camera.

Sony seem to have some short-sighted fools running the show for the past 10 years, focusing on tying customers down with sony-only.

I had a sony phone back in the 1990s, wouldn't think about a Sony now because they lack function, style and reliability.

Have you seen the new HTC Touch Diamond and Touch Pro? Wow. Now they are smart, stylish, capable and having owned HTC phone's in the past they will probably be reliable but not tough.

Can't get anything right, can they? This Memory Stick Micro stupidity is typical of Sony. Their other problem is that they can't seem to make a phone that does everything. Their idiotic marketing focus on "cybershot phone" or "walkman phone" has lost them many a sale to customers like me, who just want one device that does everything reasonably well.

Hmm... my wife's swiss army knife Sony phone had to be recalled. Was that shortage of quality control a component?

It's not hard to see where Ericssony comes unstuck in the UK market. 

They insist on using more expensive Sony M2 memory stick micro instead of the industry standard micro SD. It's long been a bugbear that holds back sales of Sony digital cameras.

Their old entry-level w200i phone has a decent MP3 player and now offers great value (as low as £29 PAYG inc £10 free top up at Woolworth recently) but reviews terribly as a phone due to a wonky joystick. 

The recent W380i clamshell looks great but has gone straight to PAYG and has already dropped £20 in price -- reviews allege that it crashes.

One monthly specialist mag regularly redirects readers from Sony Walkman phones to the Nokia 5310 (not least because it uses SD memory).