The Japanses-Swedish manufacturer has recently announced its Xperia model with a huge touchscreen, which was one of the most interesting announcements at Mobile World Congress. A table of release dates dug up on Sony Ericsson's own site suggests something powerfully depressing, which is that the XPERIA X1 has been pushed all the way out to February 10, 2009. While the presence of the page on the company's very own domain is pretty damning evidence, we're still holding out hope that it's a typo or an oversight; late Q2 of '08 was mentioned at MWC, and we really don't see how it's possible to push out a phone nearly three-quarters of a year just weeks after its initial announcement. If this is really true, the phone can not really expect a success. Why? Because until than the smaller manufacturers will also release models with similar features and design and, furthermore, many different models might be released already this year, built on the Nokia Series 60 Touch platform. It is only to be hoped that the manufacturer will claim these dates false.
Translated by Szaszati
