Today is the last day of 3Q, but still no announcement of the 770’s postponement or eventual release date from Nokia. (It’s 10:45 pm in Finland, so we think it’s safe to say it didn’t make the originally stated 3Q release.)

Reports at Portable Gadgets and Gizmodo are simply repeating what we said here (well, including the report from teddythebear) and not providing independent confirmation.

As Mike Cane has said repeatedly, it’s more important to get it right than to get it out early. Have to say we agree with that, especially if the delay is only a matter of weeks (hopefully) or even a few months (Xmas has been mentioned). Still, the type of activity that we outsiders can observe is consistent with an earlier rather than later release, at least from the software side. Hope there isn’t a manufacturing problem behind all this.