The word round the campfire today is that Sony Ericsson’s recently announced flagship handset, the Xperia X1, might be facing a delay of up to a year. The source of this unconfirmed rumour is the SEMC Blog, which claims to have a table of legitimate release dates for all of Sony Ericsson’s announced new handsets for this year.
The table lists the Xperia X1 as launching on February 10th 2009 which if true could be disastrous for the device. It wouldn’t look good for Sony Ericsson to let its new flagship handset slip that far and considering how quickly the technological landscape evolves in the mobile space, the Xperia might not seem like quite the showstopper is does at the moment in a year’s time.
Some are speculating that perhaps the delay of Windows Mobile 6.1 could be holding back the device but even if that is the case, a full year seems slightly excessive. We’ll surely know more about this by the end of the week so stay tuned to see if this rumour is in fact the awful truth.
(Via Unwired View)
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