We've seen lots of Win-Mo 7 dates floated; most recently, the "early 2009" projection was more realistically hedged to the "second half" of 2009 by Microsoft in September. Jha's announcement could potentially mean that we won't be seeing any Motorola Windows Mobile 7 phones until 2010, but the Electronista folks have Jha saying on the earnings call that the expected worldwide rollout of WM7 won't happen until 2010.

This is also interesting because it appears to disprove yesterday's rumor in the Wall Street Journal that Motorola was planning on completely abandoning Windows Mobile in favor of the "more competitive" (and completely free to license) Android. Jha says Moto is still focused on Google' open source OS, but we have yet to see any official word of Motorola-branded Android gear getting close to release—they're not expected until the end of this year. Oh Moto. [Electronista, WSJ]

Japan's Nikkei and Reuters are both reporting that losses for the fiscal year ending in March could hit $1.1 billion, with Nikkei saying they may even drift closer to $2 billion. This is, as they say, the exact opposite of the $2.2 billion profit forecast Sony previously cited.

At fault are, well, the financiapocalypse of course, which has resulted in subdued demand for HDTVs in the American market and elsewhere, as well as a booming yen that has driven up the price of exports. Stocks for all of the Japanese tech companies plunged today from the news, with Toshiba, Canon and Panasonic all down in the neighborhood of 7%.

So the idea of Sony shuttering a major division by the end of next month rings a bit more true now, doesn't it? Who will get the axe?

[NYT, Variety]