The Sony Ericsson X10 Is A Very Accomplished Android Smartphone!

The brand new flagship model from Sony Ericsson; the Xperia X10 is truly remarkable

to behold with its humongous 4 inch capacitive touch screen, its shiny, angular design and the natural curve of the back casing for comfortable handling. The X10 has an epic 1GHz SnapDragon CPU and a slick Android operating system. The device has an 8.1 mega pixel camera and boasts an abundance of features including social network feeds and multi-media applications.

The 4 inch WVGA TFT touch screen can generously display over 65,000 colours in 480 x 854 pixel resolutions, the contrast ratio and vibrant, animated screen give you a feel for what Sony Ericsson have done with this model, it feels fluid. The phone runs very fluidly too, its powerful processor and Android OS do a wonderful job allowing the software to gracefully flow from function to function a you journey through the various applications and features. The applications you discover on this journey include the cleverly thought out TimeScape; this app contains an organised stack of tiles, each one representing a form of communication; Facebook and Twitter updates, messaging and web based mail accounts and other feeds you may have set up. This is an efficient way of keeping your social connections organised and quickly accessed for effortless communications. In addition the X10 possesses integrated e-mail facilities where the touch QWERTY keyboard comes in handy and Conversations which collects messages to and from and slots them in to a live conversation form.

The X10 has a worthy web connections via Wi Fi, offering high speed connections at nearby hotspots. The WebKit web browser is easy to use and its pan and zoom function is intuitive, the browser is fully equipped with daily news feeds, bookmarks for quick access to your favourite sites and Google search, an application market has been made available too, the Android Market allows you to choose from a range of apps and download them to your handset; this adds to the phones customisability. The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 has entertainment covered just as well as communications if not better with its MediaScape application; this, when activated sends you to a dedicated screen which offers you a full overview of all your media content, downloaded files, music, video, images its all there, differing from TimeScape, MediaScape doesnt use the tile system, it instead acts simply as an area where all of the multi media functions are managed via an icon based arrangement. The Music players UI is a pleasure to use, each song is given the Infinite button which takes you to the Google web browser to get more information on the artist or album and navigating through your songs is an easy process with the receptive Touch UI.

The X10 sports a whopping 8 mega pixel digital camera which comes equipped with a high power LED flash and auto focus, the UI offers a multitude of options for capturing images in different styles and perspectives, the shots will always come out crisp and clear whether its shot in portrait or landscape mode. Both Smile and Face recognition have been thrown in along with Touch capture to make shots easier to take and the Send to Web allows you to share your videos online, uploading to sites like YouTube and personal blogs. Video capture is another feature which will certainly ensure the phones popularity. The video player is capable of handling various file formats and displays them clearly and brightly on the huge WVGA screen. The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 has plenty of memory space available with 1GB of internal and 8GB external as standard but this can be upgraded up to 16GB by means of the MicroSD slot. Bluetooth and a convenient USB port make up the connectivity options and navigation is possible with the integrated aGPS, Google Maps and WisePilot.

All in all the Sony Ericsson X10 is a very accomplished Smartphone and with updates out later this year for the Android OS it will remain a popular handset throughout 2010!

by: Lee Thornton

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