Sony mobile executive: pricing tweaks, cost cuts to cope with dollar's rise

May 27 2015 5:08AM EST | Source: REUTERS Technology

TOKYO (Reuters) - The head of Sony Corp's loss-making mobile telecoms unit plans to tweak handset prices and cut costs if need be to absorb the dollar's sharp rise versus the yen, citing currency shifts as a bigger potential threat to the Japanese electronics maker's efforts to turn the business around than competition.