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Sony Ericssons Xperia 1 announced last February is on track. This announcement came after rumors circulated that the Microsoft-powered device would miss the key holiday sales period. Sony Ericsson earlier announced that the Xperia 1 will be ready in the second half of 2008 in selected markets.
For the past few days, several tech blogs reported delays on the product and quoted several unnamed sources that the handset will miss out on its projected date. However, SE officials affirmed customers saying “There is absolutely no delay. The product is on track,” Sony Ericsson spokeswoman Merran Wrigley said. “We have said it will roll out in Q4, and we are on target to do that.”
With Sony Ericsson offering Windows-powered mobile devices, all the world’s top handset makers (except Nokia) will now offer at least one handset that runs Windows Mobile OS.
Despite years of investments, Microsoft has struggled to appeal to mobile users, and has won only around 10 percent market share among smartphones.
Stiff competition from other platforms – especially RIM’s BlackBerry and Apple’s iPhone – have hurt demand for Microsoft-based products, and the U.S. software firm missed its 20 million phone sales target for the year to June 2008.
Source: Cnet
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