For those who missed it, here’s the second part of the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 Webcast. I came in a bit late and missed the first part where they talked about Johnny X. In any case, they did mention that the full webcast video will be available on the 17th. Enjoy.

From Sony Ericsson:

Sony Ericsson today announces 30 September 2008 as the official launch date for the highly anticipated Xperia™ X1 – initially available to consumers in the UK, Germany and Sweden. The handset will be available in other markets across Europe, Asia and Latin America throughout Q4 2008.

APAC

• Indonesia, Singapore, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam

Western Europe

• Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal

Central Europe

• Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic

Middle East

• UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait

Africa

• South Africa

Latin America

• Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia

Availability dates for North America, China, Australia and Russia along with other countries not mentioned above will be announced by local markets in the coming months.

[Thanks Witness!]

Ok folks, things are becoming interesting. Sony Ericsson just sent out an email about the XPERIA X1 live webcast on September 1, at 1pm (GMT+1) over at http://sonyericsson.com/premiere. They have also announced Johnny X which what seems to be a mystery thriller featuring the XPERIA X1. Check out the preview!

There is still no exact date but Daniel Ljunggren, Sony Ericsson head of XPERIA product management, showed some slides at the company’s Capital Markets Day mentioning that the XPERIA X1 is coming out Q4 2008. This is at least a more official statement than the one we got from Handango. Lets just hope that Q4 means October and not December.

In the presentation, one slide mentions one of the two X1 models, the X1a. Another slide defines the Panels philosophy:

User always LIVES in ONE of the active experience

[Thanks Sidewinder!]

I wasn’t lucky enough to get invited to Mobius this year but my good friend Judie of Gear Diary is at Seattle and has just put up her Mobius Day 1 report. Yup, they have been treated with a demo of the XPERIA X1. Check out what she has to say:

He gave us demos of the interface and most of the issues we had seen with lagging screens (mainly from Mobile World Congress reports) seem to have been resolved. They said it at the time, that this was not a finished device and that it was a work in progress, so it is great to see that progress is indeed being made.We tried to pin him down on a date for the release, but second half of the year was as specific as he would get. We did find out that the name XPERIA does not specifically mean Windows Mobile devices, it could be other mobile OSes; but all Windows Mobile Sony Ericsson products will be XPERIAs.