Maxis announcement: A tie-up with Sony Ericsson?

(UPDATE 1923hrs 12072010) The word’s out, at the very least, the something “exciting” from Maxis has nothing to do with a tie-up with Sony Ericsson. But Sony Ericsson who tweeted this morning that they have something exciting to announce have yet to say anything. A new device launch could still be in the pipeline. Though, we’re wondering why is it taking Sony Ericsson so long.

Earlier, Maxis mentioned on Twitter that they will be making an “exciting” announcement today. With just that one tweet, the social media space went to work speculating on whether Maxis will officially announce the pre-order date for the iPhone 4.

We thought that a pre-order announcement from Maxis would be a bit too premature right now. Rather, a more ideal date would be sometime around 19 July – assuming that the iPhone 4 launch itself will be within the second week of August.

Turns out, Sony Ericsson via Twitter, has put out a tweet that is very similar to the one Maxis made.

As far as we know, Maxis is the only telco that’s currently offering Sony Ericsson phones with contract bundles. Namely the Xperia X10.

Could this big announcement that Maxis is making have to do with a new Sony Ericsson phone launch?

Possibly.

If it is indeed true, we’re looking at a possible X10 Mini or X10 Pro launch.

But then again, we could be completely wrong.