This web site uses cookies to improve your experience. By viewing our content, you are accepting the use of cookies. To find out more and change your cookie settings, please view our cookie policy . Close Sony hasn't exactly taken the phone world by storm since ditching long-time partner Ericsson and striking out alone in the phone market. A new line of one-letter Xperia phones led by the Xperia S have been perfectly adequate Android blowers, but when its brief appearance in the latest Bond film Skyfall is the most exciting thing about the line-leading Xperia T, you know something needs to change. That promised new phone will appear in the new year at CES, the annual technology extravaganza in Las Vegas in the second week of January. We'll be there, so keep it CNET for all the latest! Sony is also planning new Android tablets, but acknowledges that "it has become very difficult to earn money with tablets" -- not since Google started selling them so cheaply . Sony is one of the few manufacturers to try something different for its Android slates, with the unusual Sony Tablet S and Tablet P , but sadly they didn't pay off. Judging by the quality of the Vaio Duo 11 hybrid tablet, Sony could have more success with Windows 8 devices. Can Sony defeat the iPhone or S3? What's missing from Xperia phones that needs to be fixed? And how can Sony stand out from the rest of the Android pack?