Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 review

Here is the first Android based phone from Sony Ericsson, Xperia X10. However, it is learnt that X10 is based on the Android 1.6 version and not the latest Android 2.0 that found in the Droid. If you ask me 2 features that stand out in X10, I wouldn’t take long to say it’s the 4 inch touch screen and 8.1 meg pix camera.

We saw how Samsung marketed its first Pixon brand as saying it was the first touch screen mobile to have 8 mega pixel camera, but it lacked many a feature.

And the screen size of X10, 4 inch TFT is huge and one needs to ask where the sizes were heading towards. The phones of yesteryear’s were huge in size and later smaller phones became more common and may be now it is heading back to ‘larger screen-more respect’ generation.

Besides the touch screen and camera, as it is a Sony Ericsson product, you can expect the same brilliant stereo music quality as ever.

The 8.1 meg pix camera can digitally zoom up to 16x and has features like face recognition, Smile detection, Auto LED flash, Geo tagging, Video light, and connectivity features like sending them to your pics gallery online like Picasa or your own Blog.

The other connectivity types include A2DP Bluetooth streaming, GPS, USB support, G Maps, WiFi and Wisepilot turn by turn navigation (only available for select markets).

One more special feature to talk about is the SE’s proprietary Timescape feature which lets you be in touch with all your social contacts (be it the Facebook, Twitter, emails, pictures, texts etc) at one place avoiding the necessity to open each one of them to view what its up to.

The browser used is the WebKit browser and can store all your fav feeds in a single place. The phone comes in build with 1gb of phone memory and 8gb of microSD external memory, expandable up to 16gb.

If you’re reading patiently all this while to know X10’s price, we only have an estimated price for it as SE is yet to decide on its price (Expected to launch in Jan/Feb of 2010)

We don’t expect this one to be priced any less than the Nokia N97 and should be in the range of $800 – 900.