Sony promises top-end handset to compete with GS III and iPhone, implies its existing flagship doesn't

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Sony Mobile's sales chief, Dennis van Schie, has gone on the record with a pledge that just about crosses the line from marketing to manifesto. Speaking to the _Financial Times Deutschland_, he said Sony "will create, in the near future, a flagship model that can compete with Apple's iPhone and Samsung's Galaxy S III." Such a claim doesn't sound like a ringing endorsement of the manufacturer's existing top-end offering, the fast yet flawed [Xperia TL](http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/02/sony-xperia-tl-review-android/), but it does raise our hopes for [CES](http://www.engadget.com/tag/ces2013), since _FTD _reports that the superphone in question will be presented in early 2013 at both the Las Vegas show and Mobile World Congress. On a related note, van Schie also promised that Sony's chaotic array of online storefronts would become better integrated by the end of 2013, with every user being able to use a single ID across all their devices to access content -- something that sounds simple, but evidently isn't.

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