XPERIA X1 launch to delay till 2009?

Reuben Lee | Mar 03, 2008

It looks like fans eager to get their hands on the much-anticipated Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 handheld may have to wait a while longer, if the release date published on the company's own corporate site is to be believed.

According to the table of release dates, the X1 is expected to roll out only on February 10, 2009. That's exactly one year from the day it was first announced at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and a couple of months off its earlier estimate of a second-half 2008 release.

While we are not sure if the release date is meant for the US/Europe market only, or if this is simply a typo error, a one-year gap between announcement and shipping really doesn't bode well for the PDA-phone. Hopefully, it doesn't end up like its Symbian predecessor, the P990i, which was delayed so many months, it lost its wow factor by the time it finally launched. More importantly, the launch delay may give its competitors enough time to come up with a respective response to the X1.

Sony Ericsson has yet to get back to us on an official word.

The XPERIA X1 is the company's first PDA-phone running on Windows Mobile OS. It features a 3-inch WVGA touchscreen display, slide-out QWERTY keypad, HSDPA/HSUPA, wireless LAN and GPS. You can get our early impressions here.

Update: Sony Ericsson has clarified that the XPERIA X1 is slated for a second-half 2008 launch, not the Feburary 10, 2009 release date as rumored earlier.

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FiReWoLf says...
SE always delay their new phone. If they do it again for X1, others will come in with similiar model & beat the crap out of SE. That serve SE right for delaying.

Mar 04, 2008 08:03