Result of dying feature phone sales and late-arriving Xperia Play.
The company shipped 8.1m phones in Q1 2011, a drop of 23 per cent year-on-year and a 28 per cent decrease sequentially.
The average selling price for the quarter was 141 euros, which was up five per cent year-on-year. Definite smartphone effect there.
In fact, smartphones accounted for over 60 per cent of sales in the quarter.
Sony Ericsson claims it has a five per cent share of this valuable market segment, thanks mostly to its Xperia Android range.
It's a small share, but this must be some encouragement to the handset maker after years of messing around with poorly conceived Symbian and Windows devices.
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The firm reported first-quarter profits nearly halved to 11m euro from 21m a year ago. Revenues also fell to 1.15bn euros from 1,4bn in Q1 2010.
Bert Nordberg, CEO of Sony Ericsson, said: "Sony Ericsson's profitability continues as we accelerate our shift towards an Android-based smartphone portfolio, with smartphones comprising over 60 per cent of our total sales during the quarter."
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