According to Mobifrance the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 will be available to Europe on Oct 13th 2008. Costing around 700 Euros before subsidies it is aimed mainly at the high end market. This is keeping in-line with Ewan from SMSTextNews stating the Xperia is coming to 3 towards the end of the year and Sony Ericsson themselves stating a 4Q 08 release date.

Will this turn around Sony Ericsson's recent poor results? Let's hope so, here's hoping they don't follow in the way of Motorola on redesigning the wheel (RAZR in their case) a zillion times! To be honest that's what seems to be coming out of the Sony Ericsson factory these days, just a bundle of similar handsets that appeal to the low end and middle markets, it's not going to cut it, Nokia own that sector.

Lesson here is to innovate and come out with something new that will sell to the masses, please stop churning out handsets one after the other.