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Friday November 20, 2009
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I had a chance to test out Sony Ericsson's new Xperia X10 (codenamed "Rachael") for a few minutes at last night's Pepcom in NYC.
The Xperia X10 is a slim, sleek slab with an expansive 4-inch capacitive touch screen with 854-by-480-pixel resolution. That's the same pixel count but slightly larger than the 3.7-inch screen on the Motorola Droid. Unlike its predecessor, the Xperia X1, the X10 drops the keyboard and also switches from Windows Mobile to Android.
The Xperia X10 measures 4.7 by 2.5 by 0.5 inches (HWD) and weighs 4.8
ounces. In brief testing, the device honestly felt a bit sluggish. But
it sported an interesting (and yet another proprietary) user interface
called Timescape, which displays Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, texts, and
contacts in one seamless interface. You tap on a contact, and then see
all of the associated recent messages and other info for that person.
The Xperia X10 also includes GPS, Android Market, and an 8-megapixel
camera with a Carl Zeiss lens and facial recognition. In addition,
there's Mediasync, which is yet-another attempt by Sony to tie a mobile
device's media collection to a PC as well as offer PlayNow and YouTube
access.
There's still no word on an American carrier, price, or release date
(even in unlocked form). In short, it's a beautiful phone in a way
that's uniquely Sony. But--just like the X1 and the W995a--it's also
DOA here in America without a carrier and a subsidy.
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