You're new here, I guess you haven't familiarised yourself with abill_uk yet.
He had a long hiatus away, but it seems he's been allowed back recently
He's harmless, means well, and always "amusing" to read his posts...

Assuming we can even take that person as a real dev...
To have it delivered by then is not bad at all in the scheme of things.
WP7x was almost covering the top of the low end, & was probably set to go a bit lower.
And Sonic Touch was starting to cover the bottom end very nicely.
The rumours were pointing to 1st announcement for Meltemi in Q4, so Q1 may make sense.