Disappointment was in store for those people hoping to unwrap an analogue videophone on Christmas day: not only has Amstrad Plc given up on the product, but British Telecommunications Plc failed to meet its Christmas target and now says that the phone won’t go on sale until February or March – We didn’t promise that it would be in the shops by Christmas, we said we hoped that it would be in the shops said a semantically spokesman, adding that there are no fundamental problems with the thing.