No it was always before or by the end of Summer, then it changed to 2nd-half of 2012, I reckon it'll be no later than Oct*, incidentally N9 started rolling-out at the end of Sept (2011).
But the speculation by someone that maybe another Sailfish vendor releases sooner is certainly possible...
They could finally announce all the finer details about the licensing model just before that (+ what aspects of Sailfish will remain Jolla only, & what will be completely open etc).

I'm personally not that interested in a physical qwerty, quality of build is quite important though, especially if it's pricey, & I expect a competitive/innovative VKB.
Plus an easy way to connect a BT4 KB (for the rare occasion I need it), even better would be a physical/modular keyb system, similar to what the Surface uses -but better.

*If it doesn't come till Jan or later I'll be very disappointed, & their chances of getting traction will have been greatly reduced