Comments on: Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 delayed for a year? http://www.unwiredview.com/2008/02/29/sony-ericsson-xperia-x1-delayed-for-a-year/ Wireless news, views and reviews Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:47:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Staska http://www.unwiredview.com/2008/02/29/sony-ericsson-xperia-x1-delayed-for-a-year/comment-page-1/#comment-15120 Staska Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:05:06 +0000 http://www.unwiredview.com/2008/02/29/sony-ericsson-xperia-x1-delayed-for-a-year/#comment-15120 I agree, that in the end, few months delay may not matter much. Still, there's a Christmas season in between, and quite a few new and exciting phones will be coming out in the meantime. S60 Touch, Android, iPhone 3G, I'm sure HTC will have something really interesting with WM 6.1 by the time. So what sounds new, powerful and really exciting for Q3/Q4 2008, may be a rather boring proposition by Feb. 2009. Especially since this is the time next years MWC will be generating the buzz about the new generation of handsets. And buzz for the sake of buzz, without a product available, won't help much with market share or bottomline. And may even hurt it. I agree, that in the end, few months delay may not matter much.

Still, there’s a Christmas season in between, and quite a few new and exciting phones will be coming out in the meantime.

S60 Touch, Android, iPhone 3G, I’m sure HTC will have something really interesting with WM 6.1 by the time.

So what sounds new, powerful and really exciting for Q3/Q4 2008, may be a rather boring proposition by Feb. 2009.

Especially since this is the time next years MWC will be generating the buzz about the new generation of handsets.

And buzz for the sake of buzz, without a product available, won’t help much with market share or bottomline. And may even hurt it.

]]> By: nexus6 http://www.unwiredview.com/2008/02/29/sony-ericsson-xperia-x1-delayed-for-a-year/comment-page-1/#comment-15119 nexus6 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:19:32 +0000 http://www.unwiredview.com/2008/02/29/sony-ericsson-xperia-x1-delayed-for-a-year/#comment-15119 Well, X1 was since the very beginning announced as a phone to be launched at the fourth quater of 2008. So a couple of months of delay because of a couple of months of dealy of WM 6.1 seems reasonable. I think that the early announcement of X1 had several reasons. First. SE needed something to give to the people to talk about. Let's be honest, the currently announced models aren't any surprise and very few of them are actually worth mentioning. So they needed some buzz. Second reason is that SE knows, that UIQ3 is really outdated and not a very modern user interface. Again, they needed to show their customers that they have something better coming for them. There won't be a new version of UIQ this year, contrary to Nokia S60 touch UI. And the third reason is that SE wants to give more support to their e-mail capable phones. X1 is a flagship, but even other lower models you can now find Exchange support. So the X1 is for the top management while Z770 is for the other employees... Well, X1 was since the very beginning announced as a phone to be launched at the fourth quater of 2008. So a couple of months of delay because of a couple of months of dealy of WM 6.1 seems reasonable.

I think that the early announcement of X1 had several reasons. First. SE needed something to give to the people to talk about. Let’s be honest, the currently announced models aren’t any surprise and very few of them are actually worth mentioning. So they needed some buzz.

Second reason is that SE knows, that UIQ3 is really outdated and not a very modern user interface. Again, they needed to show their customers that they have something better coming for them. There won’t be a new version of UIQ this year, contrary to Nokia S60 touch UI.

And the third reason is that SE wants to give more support to their e-mail capable phones. X1 is a flagship, but even other lower models you can now find Exchange support. So the X1 is for the top management while Z770 is for the other employees…

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