Engadget: Xperia Delayed Until End of 2008 (Aug 29th)

[qasim]

check it out...
http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/29/s...d-of-the-year/

what do you guys think?...
Vodafone says October, people in Hong Kong are saying early October..
now what?

[Guticb]

Sony is really pissing me off with this.

Looks like I'm gonna be getting the G1 with T-mobile. I'm really getting annoyed at the constant delays. Why wait for a phone for a year when there are already better ones on the market?

[Pinguino1]

Look at this official Shopping Sony-Ericsson Site.

Release in October!!!

Click on the Xperia box and register for e-mail or phone notification.

http://www.se-store.co.uk/?objectid=...B78C0E964DF956

[sleazeball]

I think BengalBoy's opinion was pretty close to this new piece of information. It is also imaginable that SE might have run into some sort of problems developing a WM device.

Personally, a smartphone purchase for me is like a blind person buying a car, it's really gratuitous. So I'm not required to buy anything in a hurry, I can choose to wait, or watch for other alternatives. Is that considered luck?

I'm also more curious about what else SE is planning for the Xperia line. I see a lot of folks saying they don't want/need a hardware keyboard.

[juckmaniac]

I'd like to believe it still is october.
It was september, god damn it.
i guess we gotta clear our mind till it launches.
its ok to hold our menace when it releases.

[carp0708]

F*** it.

Diamond or Pro guys?

[Guticb]

Touch Pro is better. The Qwerty is a must.

Touch Pro or G1 guys?

[ipporek]

Now the main concern to me is not about when it'll be released, but rather whether it's worth the wait, and further down the road (with all the recent news about Sony and Ericsson splitting), whether there'd be the support, firmware updates etc.

[sleazeball]

A common suspicion is that the longer SE delays the phone, the more it'll have to contemplate a lower price point to keep the phone competitive. I don't know if they think that way (I went to a British school for years, and still don't get them), but I'm hoping that is the case.

Sony's track record suggests that they don't have what it takes to go it alone in the cell phone business. SE may not be doing well, but I thought it came into being in the first place because neither S nor E can do anything by themselves anymore?

With me being from HTC's home turf, Diamond prices are beginning to drop, and the Touch Pro is on the horizon (not available yet, the Brits get everything first, those geezers). But neither one's got the complete range of hardware features I'm looking for, and everyday I read about faulty Diamonds (UNLIKE Europe, some say?) and crap customer service and how the phone tends to pick up inadvertently in your pocket. Do I hesitate? oh yeah.

Diamond will be a wonderful buy in later production batches -- once there's been enough ROM versions, hardware quality stabilizes, and the price drops closer to $600. I almost bought an original Touch when the price dropped to $300+.

[norseman]

Yeah I'm one of those 'geezers' we get them first as we are a small market, we get all the bugs that they then iron out for you guys so..

Brits get phone first with bugs and production errors and massively inflated prices (plus no-one sueing for wrongful advertising and stuff)

Yanks and co get em later with full production runs, lower cost and less errors

still glad I'll get em first though