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BlackBerry Storm’s Shipping Delay: Blame the Firmware

Orders of the BlackBerry Storm online have been delayed, and according to some detective work from the Boy Genius Report, it’s not due to intense demand. The Storm that BGR got to toy around with was loaded with the OS firmware 4.7.0.82, yet all the Storms being sold now are branded .65. What gives? The…

Shipments on New, Entry-Level MacBook Airs Delayed

Appleinsider is reporting that the early ship dates for new Nvidia-powered MacBook Airs will be pushed back until November 24th for anyone who purchased a 1.6GHz model with a 128GB HDD. Supply chain issues related to the hard drive seem to be behind the delay. [Appleinsider]

Garmin’s Nuvifone Gets Delayed ‘Til 2009

Garmin has just made a announcement stating that the much-hyped Nuvifone GPS/cellphone product is going to be delayed until the “first half of 2009.” Apparently “meeting some of the carrier specific requirements will take longer than anticipated,” so it’s going to miss its previously mentioned slot at the end of this year. Sounds like bad…

Windows XP SP3 Officially Delayed

It’s April 29, and Microsoft has to make the unfortunate decision of delaying Windows XP SP3 due to compatibility issues between it and Microsoft Dynamics Retail Management System, something none of you should be familiar with unless you work in retail. If you don’t, the service pack has been unofficially available for a couple days…

Xperia X1 Delayed Till 2009?

We brought you news that Sony Ericsson’s first Windows Mobile smartphone would ship mid 2008, however, the guys at Sony Ericsson Blog have spotted an official Sony Ericsson webpage showing the expected release date as 10/02/2009. https://gizmodo.com/xperia-x1-hiptop-killer-sony-ericssons-first-video-plu-354742 Considering Sony Ericsson Blog are as reliable as a really reliable source, and that they have pointed us…

iPhone SDK Delayed By One to Three Weeks?

Arik Hesseldahl of Business Week claims that a source tells him the official iPhone SDK will be delayed by one to three weeks, much like the recent delay in the Apple TV 2.0 upgrade (2 weeks). Apple hasn’t made any official statement, but there’s only a week left for them to hit their previously-announced “February”…

Nokia N-Gage First Access Gaming Platform Delayed Until 2008

Nokia’s “First Access” service that would let N81 owners play the 2nd Generation N-Gage games has been delayed until 2008, citing issues that they discovered via their 1000 global testers. We actually tested this new N-Gage platform earlier this year, and found it kind of to be like an Xbox Live Lite for mobiles. It…

Microsoft Surface Table Delayed – Picky Customers to Blame

Unfortunately for electronic table fetishists everywhere, you won’t be able to walk into a restaurant, a casino or a retail outlet and play with a Microsoft Surface table until spring of next year. Why isn’t it surfacing until then? Partners. Partners who need Microsoft’s help to build custom apps to fit Harrah’s, Sheraton and T-Mobile…

Linux Based Palm OS Pushed Out to End of Year ’08

Yesterday during Palm’s Q1-08 Conference call, CEO Ed Colligan dropped some tidbits about their release schedule for the Linux-based Palm OS “[The Palm Centro] team is now totally focused on delivering our next generation platform, which we expect to have available by the end of the next calendar year.” By the end of 2008? Are…

Xbox 360 Repair Turnaround Times Are Down in the Crapper

The recent Xbox 360 warranty extension to three years has really done a number on the repair queue. Everyone must be sending in their broken Xboxes, since the turnaround time has increased from two weeks to as much as six. Anecdotally, it so happens that three people I know sent in their 360s around this…

Despite reported bugs, Palm is denying that their Foleo UMPC-like device will be delayed. [MacWorld]

AppleTV Delayed Til March: Aaand the Hold Up Is?

AppleTV is delayed until mid March. We knew this…but then we didn’t. Now it’s officially late. Lynn Fox, Director of Mac PR, says: https://gizmodo.com/rumor-appletv-not-shipping-until-march-235561 Wrapping up Apple TV is taking a few weeks longer than we projected So what’s the hold up? The device looked pretty ready to go a few weeks ago. Are they…

Treo 750 Delayed ’til Early-Mid 2007

After the Treo 680 unceremoniously made its appearance (finally) November 24 for $199, you’d expect the Treo 750 to come soon as well. Not quite, as Palm CEO Ed Colligan pointed out yesterday. https://gizmodo.com/palm-treo-680-nov-24-199-but-nothing-really-groun-216611 Even though Cingular’s eventually going to get the Treo 750, which has been out in Europe for a while, stability problems…

Supplies! Phantom Lapboard Delayed ‘Til 2007

Just when Phantom‘s managed to get a modicum of credibility back into their corner with the recent Lapboard news (even though the concept for the keyboard was all but firmed up even back in 2004), they go and blow it all like Charlie Sheen on $450 hookers. Yes, Phantom’s just announced that they’ve found some…

Sync Problems Delays Cingular’s Samsung SYNC Phone

Despite already airing ads on prime time TV for the Samsung SYNC music phone yesterday, Cingular didn’t actually have any available in stores. Why? Because of a manufacturing defect that rendered the phone unable to sync to your computer to load DRM-ed Windows Media files. Oops! So yes, a phone that’s called the SYNC had…

Blu-ray Delayed In Europe Until 2007

With the World Cup now officially over, what do Europeans have to look forward to? It’s definitely not Blu-ray, as many companies in the Blu-ray camp won’t be ready to deploy into Europe until January 2007. Pioneer says it doesn’t have any “concrete” plans for their European launch, but they’d have something figured out by…

Samsung Delays BD-P1000 Blu-ray Player Yet Again

After pushing the launch date from May 23rd to June 25th, Samsung confirms that their Blu-ray BD-P1000 isn’t going to be released until September. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-delays-bd-p1000-blu-ray-player-adds-1080p-play-164944 Sony’s BDP-S1 is also delayed until August, so consumers are left wondering whether these first generation Blu-ray machines are going to work out or be sort of a bust—like how…

Pioneer Delays Blu-ray Player

Strange things are happening at Pioneer, where yesterday we told you about its plan to drop out of the DVD player business altogether and now we hear the company’s Blu-ray player will be seriously delayed. https://gizmodo.com/pioneer-to-go-blu-ray-178683 Pioneer said the North American launch of its next-generation Blu-ray players will be postponed until this Fall, due to…

Windows Vista Delayed Again?

It looks like Windows Vista might be delayed again, this time by at least three months—if you believe research group Gartner, Inc. Why is this happening? “Too complex,” say the Gartner analysts. They’re saying we’ll see Vista sometime in the second quarter of next year. Yikes, that could be June, 2007?! Says Gartner: “Microsoft still…

Motorola Q Gets Delayed … Again

The Motorola Q news has been running rampant lately. We’ve seen it being rumored to be released last month, seen it in the wild and even heard about it’s latest abandonment of a European release, but today we are hit with another shocker as the Q gets officially delayed another month. The Q had an…