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Sony Pictures Mobile

American mobile entertainment company

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ7562511 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sony Pictures Mobile is an American mobile entertainment licenser and publisher specialising in branded mobile video games and personalisation products, which are available for download via mobile devices through Sony Pictures Mobile's distribution relationships with wireless providers and networks worldwide.

Sony Pictures Mobile is a division of Sony Pictures Digital, a Sony Pictures Entertainment company. Sony Pictures Entertainment is part of Sony Entertainment Inc. a Sony company.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Sony Pictures Mobile” as american mobile entertainment company. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Sony, Pictures and Mobile.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current 67-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Sony, Pictures and Mobile providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Sony Pictures Mobile”, the useful work is to connect “american mobile entertainment company” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7562511. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Sony Pictures Mobile primary sources, Sony Pictures Mobile archive and Sony research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sony Pictures Mobile” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.