Although Sony Ericsson is planning to release its glitzy Idou phone--which features a headline-grabbing 12-megapixel camera--in the second half of this year, the product is unlikely to arrive until late this year.
Chief Executive Christine Day said there is a lot of product on the water that will arrive in a couple of days, so the company should have a better idea of the extent of the problem in a week.
One driver for Seagate in the transaction is its move into NAND-Flash based products: the company is nearing the launch of a second-generation enterprise solid-state drive offering, and Luczo says a third-generation product under development jointly with Samsung should arrive in 2012.
Will there be an iPhone 5, or perhaps the better questions are when it will arrive, and whether the world will treat it as a completely new product category?