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The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 – Still In The Womb
It should have seen the light of day in time for Christmas of 2009. But for whatever reason, Sony Ericsson has succeeded in keeping the impatient Android markets less interested now on Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 than it was.
There’s now a Motorola Milestone/Droid, the Google Nexus/HTC Bravo and the Acer Liquid A1 and a host of other non-Android smartphones with better specs to delight its target markets. Having missed Christmas and the Chinese New Year, Sony recently unveiled a couple of inferior X10 variants at the Mobile World Congress held recently in Barcelona, Spain.
As if to placate the waiting X10 crowd, there is now the Xperia X10 Mini and the Mini Pro using a slower processor and the same Android 1.6 Donut considered obsolete in the Android community by the time they arrive in the 2nd quarter of the year. Sony must have really invested a lot on the 1.6 Donut with its UX (User 3Xperience) user interface to try and recover its expenses on two other handsets.
But the attendees at the MWC weren’t even interested in. There were largely ignored in the presence of more exciting handsets Android 2.1 smartphones from Samsung, HTC and Dell.
Features Still Worth Getting
In November last year, the announced X10 features were something to drool over, even on paper. A speculated €600 SIM-free price tag was even more jaw-dropping but many thought it could be well worth the price, given its feature set. Now, it’s doubtful the same handset will command the same awe nor take that price seriously. It may be worth looking back at how the X10 stacks up against the competition
- To start with, you have a smartphone running a generation-old Android 1.6 Cupcake when almost all the upscale Androids are using the 2.0/2.1 Éclair version. Sony Ericsson has thoroughly ported its UX (User-eXperience) user interface earlier code-named Rachel onto the 1.6 which makes the OS more than sum of its parts. While earlier prototypes have shown a sluggish response of its UI, we remain hopeful that the delay is party due to getting those issues addressed, though we have to wonder why Sony can’t port its UX on the newer Éclair.
- The X10 is supposed to be Sony Ericsson first Android smartphone and its first to use the 1 GHz Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon CPU considered the fastest smartphone engine when it was launched. But that throne may not be held for long.
- The display on the X10 is its most remarkable feature which at a Wide-VGA 4 inches makes it the largest on an Android with the Motorola Droid close at 3.7 inches. It uses the same capacitive touchscreen in the iPhone 3Gs and is promised to have a multi-touch upgrade soon. It features a scratch-resistant coating and an accelerometer for auto-rotate viewing.
- Its 8-megapixel autofocus camera with touch-focus LED flash that’s also a video light, image stabilization, face/smile detection, 8x digital zoom, WVGA video recording at 30fps, geo-tagging from its GPS receiver and red-eye reduction would still put it at the top of the camera phone food chain, save perhaps the Samsung M8920.
Everything else is what an upscale Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10should be and that include a 3G/HSDPA, WiFi 82.11 b/g and Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR and A2DP, a 1GB internal memory with microSD support for up to 16 GB, A-GPS with Wisepilot navigation, a digital compass with its magnetometer and 3.5mm headphone jack.
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