As Carly Page over at somobile.co.uk recently noted, Sony Ericsson says that consumers should now expect the release date to be sometime in late July. Unfortunately there was no reason given as to why the launch of the business-focused smartphone was pushed back until Q3.

For those of you that don’t already know, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro comes with a 3.7-inch touch-screen, a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, up to 32GB of expandable memory, both front and rear-facing cameras, HSDPA and Wi-Fi. It also features Sony Ericsson’s TimeScape UI and the Facebook Inside Xperia app.

The handset is still available to pre-order for £349.99, as long as you don’t mind waiting a little longer than expected to get your hands on it. We’ll make sure we keep you updated if we hear any news about a specific release date for the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro.

Were you hoping to pick up the Sony Ericsson Xperia Pro handset this month?

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Thomas Ricker of Engadget is reporting that this is likely to do with NFC read/ write support which will be built into Google’s new Gingerbread OS. Back in November Google’s Eric Schmidt was demonstrating Near Field Communication with the Nexus S, and promised an Android 2.3 release in the coming weeks.

The NFC Forum states any device that displays the official ‘N-Mark’ has to be certified to display it. The symbol tells users where to touch their device in order to enable the NFC services available for that handset. Head over to Engadget to read the full story and the NFC forum press release.

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