DoCoMo to select Sony, Sharp and Fujitsu for new smartphone line-up

TOKYO: NTT DoCoMo Inc, Japan’s largest mobile operator, will select Sony Corp, Sharp Corp and Fujitsu Ltd smartphone models for its main winter product line-up, sources familiar with the situation said.

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, which along with Sony supplied one of the two models for the main summer range, would be excluded as it lacked a new flagship model for the winter, and after its Galaxy S4 fell short of DoCoMo’s summer target despite strong sales for Sony’s Xperia A, the sources said.