Obviously, not every part of Ericsson (or Sony, for that matter) knows what's going on over at Sony Ericsson HQ -- though they share names, joint venture Sony Ericsson is a separate company, by and large, joined to its corporate parents more by ownership than by mindshare. Still, though, you can't help but find it interesting that Ericsson Labs' official Twitter account is tweeting about a story on
Softpedia echoing recent rumors that the
Android-powered,
Rachael-skinned
XPERIA X3 will finally bow next month. In the most sensational version of the conclusion-drawing that's about to occur, we'd say that Ericsson just underhandedly confirmed the story, the product, and the product's name -- and in the least sensational version, a dude in one division of a largely unrelated company is simply throwing out a story that he finds interesting. Considering the rumored specs on the X3, we're hoping its the former -- and realistically, we might only have a few more weeks before we find out.
posted Oct 18th 2009 4:01PM
X3 release is close!!!
\(^_^)/
It seems that SE has already given up on the Satio and its 3 hours battery life, its unresponsive resistive screen and its prehistoric symbian os (which even Nokia is abandoning).
Shame because the design is as sexy as Marilyn and the camera top notch, unfortunately everything sucks like a tornado.
Now SE promises to amaze us with the X3 but considering the mass of failures on SE record I find it hard to be optimist.
(BTW where is the X2? Lost in SE mess?)
I still remeber when my Ericsson T28i caused the envy of all my friends, ennemies and simple aquaintences, and the Ericsson logo was guarantee of quality, innovation and unmitigated coolness and the company was fighting for dominance of the cell phone market with Nokia and Moto.
I can't remember if my first phone was the Moto StarTac or the MicroTac , in between these glorious phones I remember with fondness my bright yellow Nokia 2110i, which I dumped only for the Ericsson T28i, after which cameras and color screens appeared on my phones, Ericsson married Sony and became irrilevant.
I loved my '90s ericssons so much that it still pains me to see this glorious company reduced to this pitiful state.