Swedish retailer pegs Xperia V release for December 3

It may be too late for Sony …

noooo october release please!

Putting this date down in the calendar. As I just lost my Xperia P on a drunken adventure.
This seems to be the closest to perfect phone ever. It lacks only one thing, the dedicated shutter button.

Sony’s marketing team should really think about their customers, maybe think like Apple. because they announce a unit then makes their customers wait for a long time. which is bad because the hype of the customers of buying the product will be lost as time passes by and eventually new mobile events will occur making customers pass on the unit. Plus they are really behind the specs because even though Dual Core matches Quads. next yr it will all be Quads powered by S4 which was led by LG. Sony should really think hard if they really want to make profit from their devices.

Sony..that’s not stepping up your game! You are back to that way of thinking,again.As if someone owes you something! Like that good-looking person you meet, and you have to do all the work.Folk are not going to wait..Your
losing money!! And add some colors to these phones,bigger battery.Better wake-up! Sony! Cant blame “Ericsson” now.

I’m up here in sweden at the moment and yes it’s true. 17 on line retailers have the xperia v for sale from nov 28th and onwards. Can’t wait. Lets hope that CES rumored phones don’t make things confusing around that time.

whaaaaaat? are you one of those poeple that say if it has a touch screen then its an iphone copy? please explain how is it a copy of the iphone?

found in switzerland too
http://www.pcp.ch/product-1a16790431.htm?parnr=12832879

This is my take on why it’s release date is so away. Remember, Sony and Ericsson has invested alot of time and money on the T/TX. They’ll want to see a return first before they unleash the real beast, The V.
If you noticed, the V does not have the Sony Ericsson logo. It’s the Flag ship. Sony’s first monster phone ( and water resistant ). Gotta love it.
P:S Seems like the russians already have it.
http://youtu.be/YTBX0da2Tds

well for starters they really need to reduce the blind aiming with the so many different kind of phones. i mean lets think about it, say you have a factory that needs to build an X phone, well, lets aim for 10k phones, lets assume that you started manufacturing those phones. while the factory is building 10,000 X phones, Sony announces B phones, C phones and D phones. well they need to wait until X phone is built… or you go ahead to a different factory, you need more quality assurance departments more marketing more spending more working hands. Having so many phones confuses customers, who ever decides to wait for X will change his mind for the newer B phone, you fall the the problem of the brand is competing with its own. Just like this example: should you buy a 2013 911 or a 2013 boxter, they are both 0 – 60 can take 4 seconds…. every magazine says Porsche shot them self in the foot, and the biggest contender for a 911 is now the boxter. With this amount of phones, they are all missing something and ALONE can’t compete with Galaxy SIII or iphone5 ; ironically, the ENTIRE line of Xperia kicks both phones behind. Sadly, from what we have all seen so far, companies with focused handsets are doing much better than Sony’s crazy phone announcements.

Look at the Tablet Xpera S, i honestly feel that tablet is slowly growing, although it needs more juice i hardware, it is at least focused, released on time, and don’t see negative complaints from customers.

If there was no T or TX, the V would have been out by now, and to be honest the V packs a bigger punch with its identical features however; better hardware. although i think a Xperia VT would have been a great contender for this years 2nd place position, as the other phones manage to have a reputable fame that Sony needs to effect before their phones start floating of the shelves.

They need to pack a leader punch, when you Seonyericsson the first thing that crosses my mind is the P900, who remembers that phone and the fuss it made. it had everything a phone never had all at once under the hood.

SONY, FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS… we are waiting… stop testing aimless products. go for the big stuff. compete ith other brands not with your own self…. and i am sure there will be profit as your cost will go down, and your customers will increase enjoying timely releases, Faster Updates, and unforgettable beautiful designs and performance.

does this V have LTE ?

you have a point, but don’t you think ”
strong marketing & timely release are important too” is not the the answer for a 10 year failed SE strategy example. lets not go as lmited as one phone, but i strongly believe this many phones is only frustrating is the direct cause of the delays and confusion. 1 entry for different segment of the market is my opinion. 1 for flagship and an S version later on, 1 for min entry with an S version and 2 for low entry.

Awesome ! However much I like the T it does not have LTE and the V looks better ! I think I can wait till Decemeber

Buy from an out-of-state e-tailer?

I agree with BMW lover; the lineup of this year doesn’t come across as rich and diverse but as messy and confusing. Let’s say, I invest on an Xperia S thinking that I have the best from Sony Mobile and then I wonder whether I should have waited for the identical ion which has only bigger screen. Or maybe the acro S which is waterproof on top. And then I feel like an idiot because Sony comes up with the T as a new flagship in only six months and only two months after I updated to ICS. Or should I get the updated SL? Or maybe the TX if I live in a specific country or the GX if I live in Japan? I mean, has anyone figured out why Sony offers the T somewhere and the nearly identical TX somewhere else?
It’s good to have a rich product portfolio, but is there anyone in Sony that has an overview of their current portfolio mess?
I presume this problem is caused by the transition from Sony Ericsson to Sony and these phones were projects that where cought somewhere in the middle of development and then they were rushed all together to the market from different development managers thinking different directions of Sony Mobile. Let’s hope next year they will focus.

i agree, you happened to forget the V which is better than that T lol

V is special my friend. Not everyone is gonna pay 50$ or more on a 4.3 inch waterproof phone which is 0.5 inch less that competitors. SONY is examining the idea & I hope them to Success…

Hahaha! Adventure!

Sorry but the ion IS very, very close to the S, to justify them both. The SL replaced indeed the S, but why did it need to if the S is already pretty much replaced by the T/TX/GX? And still there is no clear reason why Sony is offering both the T and the TX. Ah, wait! Maybe the one is the Bond phone and the other isn’t… )
…And HTC acknowledged that they had a messy portfolio for 2011 and they tried to tidy it up in 2012. The reason why they are expanding again is because they are refreshing as much as they can because of falling sales. which are caused by the universal dominance of the iPhone and the Galaxy S3, which also proves that one focussed model is always better than a messy portfolio.
Messy portfolios are for non-status oriented brands. Sony should have an iconic phone, period.

Hehe, you idiot, it’s the reverse. Apple is has been using Sony’s design from day one.

According to this (same retailer as in article) the white Xperia V is released October 4.
http://www.dustinhome.se/product/5010651234/sony-xperia-v-lt25i-white/#intcmp=searchProvider_SiteSeeker

lemme take a guess here, you got mugged? hi five brother [lost my ARC in a similar situation]