Bad news:
Qualcomm's just informed us that while it's
still on track to ship the juicy 1.5GHz dual-core
QSD8672 Snapdragon in Q4 this year, the end-user devices aren't expected to hit the market until the end of 2011 -- potentially almost a whole year later than its previous "early next year" or "by Christmas"
prediction. What a shame. On a slightly more positive beat, though, the lesser
1.2GHz dual-core MSM8x60 chipset should be heading towards consumers early next year. Alas, this won't change the fact that we'll still need something to fill the void until 2011 --
Windows Phone 7, we're looking at you.