Lots of rumors and speculation going around about the possible retail delays from Sirius. Here's a compilation of all the chatter (yes, some of it is conflicting):

• The cause for the delays are due to a pending FCC certification on the updated devices.
• The cause for the delays are due to Sirius re-designing their non-compliant FM modulator connectors.
• The Sportster 4 is back-ordered until July 15th - this may be for big-box store (ie, Best Buy) shipments. This supposedly is because they are waiting for Sirius Sportster SPTK2 stock to run out.
  
• The Sirius Sportster SPTK2 Replay, Sirius One, Starmate Replay, Sirius Connect Home Tuner, GM connect SIR GM-1 piece, and the SRH550 Digital Sat Tuner are back-ordered until July 5th.
  
• Xact has always emphasized selling through retailers rather than direct sales, so this is why no product listed on Xact.

And that's all so for now.

The word on the street is that Sirius has halted shipments to all retail outlets. Requests for comment from Sirius have gone unanswered, but the rumor is coming in from various sources.

More details as they come in...

The sleuths over at Sirius Backstage have discovered the Sirius SL100-TK1 radio listed in one of Crutchfield's company databases, along with new car/home kits, and antenna headphones.

The naming convention of "SL100" indicates that the Sirius Stiletto moniker will likely be the name of the device, and that it will have 100 hours worth of storage (or 2Gb disk space).

I spent some time trolling through Crutchfield's site swapping out image names wiith "SK100TK1" but to no avail (so don't bother).  

[Sirius Backstage] 

UPDATE: The photo above is most definitely not a photo of the new Sirius Wearable unit. It was originally found on SIRIUS' homepage, and thought to be a leaked image... but lo-and-behold it's just a stock photo.

The boys over at Sirius Backstage caught this one. Today's channel update might be giving us a glimpse about things to come. The update has changed the names of some channels: PRI is now Talk, BBC News is now News, and BBC Mundo is now Spanish News.

With these being the three channels that are controlled by Public Radio International (BBC News/Mundo are distributed in the United States by PRI), could this be a sign that the PRI + Sirius agreement is coming to an end?

[Sirius Backstage]