Sony Ericsson Xperia X10

The Sony Ericsson company has joined the "Android" phones movement when it launched the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 as its first Android phone. After much delay on their part and much anticipation to the market, the phone has been released in March 2010.

One of the most obvious characteristics of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is its size. Most users and reviews put it to the "bigger phones" category with 119 x 63 x 13 mm dimension. Though relatively big, its weight is at 135 grams.

Xperia X10's screen size is 4.0", a bigger screen size compared to its contemporaries with a touch screen form. Its display is 65 K color TFT capacitive screen with the resolution of 854 x 480 pixels.


Sony Ericsson Xperia X10's platform is Qualcomm QSD 8250 Snapdragon. Its processor is 1 GHz, open GL ES 2.0 support. It comes with an Android 1.6 Donut operating system complete Sony Ericsson UI customization. It also has Timescape and Mediascape UI.

The phone has also Quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G support. It also has 10.2 Mbps HSDPA and 2 Mbps HSUPA support

The main connectivity features of the Xperia X10 is that it is Wi-Fi able for internet needs. Its social networking integration features is one of its main features to look at. Its version of Bluetooth is 2.1 with A2DP. It also has a standard micro USB port and a 3.5 mm audio jack. The phone also has GPS receiver with A-GPS.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10's internal memory is 1 GB with 384 MB RAM. It has a micro SD card slot. An 8 GB micro SD card is usually included in the bundle.

Xperia X10's camera is at 8 mega pixels. It is capable of taking pictures with resolution of up to 3264 x 2448 pixels. The camera has auto-focus, face and smile detection, image stabilization and touch focus features. The camera comes with LED flash. Video recording is at 30fps at WVGA resolution which is 800 x 480 pixels.

In addition, the phone also features a built-in accelerometer and proximity sensor. It also has a document viewer.

Charging the Xperia X10 uses a micro USB port with Li-Po 1500 mAh (BST-41) battery.

Some of the Sony Ericsson's Xperia X10 more obvious disadvantages are limited storage available to the user on the system partition. This would mean that installing applications will leave the user with only 512 MB of storage.

The phone also has no smart dialing. Xperia X10 has also no secondary video-call camera.

Other weaknesses of the phone include the absence of the DivX and XviD video playback, no free GPS navigation solution, no Flash support for the web browser and no FM radio. Regarding its camera, users say the Xperia X10 does not capture good photos in low lighted places. A xenon flash would have been better for the phone to take good quality photos especially at night.

However, users would say that these disadvantages do not affect much of the phone's main features.

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