Sony Ericsson Issues Second Profits Warning

Incredible... where did it all go wrong for Sony Ericsson? They had such a solid brand.

[quote]Ericsson is still producing cutting edge devices like the Xperia X1[/quote]

'Producing' maybe, but not selling. The X1 was announced in Barcelona earlier this year, but I hear it may even be 2009 before its actually available in the shops. Why does it take so long? Could it be sales are slipping because people are waiting for announced models to be shipped? Had the X1 been available now I would have bought one upping the Q2 sales figures (a tiny bit), but as it stands now I'm just waiting, not buying. Could there be many more like me, waiting instead of buying?

Aren't HTC doing the work for the X1 anyway? I know they're prepping the ROM as it contains HTC only apps (connection setup, HTCs own comm manager etc) and I think they're doing the hardware aswell...

SE are paying for it, but there not doing the R&D...

AS for release date, I thought it was late 2008/Q1 2009.

SE has always been very poor at getting their high end phones to market. Remember the P990 anyone ? That took nearly 1.5 year from announcement to availability.