Latest updates New Lumia 920 no release date in sight

Watch out the latest updates from Nokia and Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 event live from New York. Unfortunately, their entire release schedule, such as it is, is obfuscated into the mists of "the fourth quarter of this year." In other words, you'll be able to buy a Lumia Windows Phone 8 handset before the end of 2012, but exactly when, for how much, and with which carrier, nobody outside Espoo yet knows. However, Nokia's inability to commit to a release date today is not due to an issue with its hardware. Hardware has never been Nokia's problem. 

The Nokia Lumia 920 wireless charger is another marvel of industrial design, and its camera's optical image stabilization and f/2.0 aperture even seem good enough to justify the use of the PureView brand. The software remains this company's Achilles heel. Nokia tells me the Lumia 920 and 820 are ready to go in terms of design, but it's the integration of hardware and software that is still being worked on.