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d-southwest
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What up?
Sorry for asking THIS , but is tha battery cover tha only thing made of metal?
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iwantfatty
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And what is the screen made of? my W950 has a touchscreen - and because of this it has an awful plastic screen, surely they have moved on! |
clauf
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On 2008-06-15 00:45:12, iwantfatty wrote:
And what is the screen made of? my W950 has a touchscreen - and because of this it has an awful plastic screen, surely they have moved on!
I wouldn't mind seeing "mineral glass scratch resistant" on the X1. Most flagships have this: the flagship of the Tseries (not really a flagship but =P), flagship of the Cybershot series C905 [upcoming flagship], so Sony Ericsson's next flagship device should have mineral glass =P |
WhyBe
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On 2008-06-14 23:37:00, d-southwest wrote:
What up?
Sorry for asking THIS , but is tha battery cover tha only thing made of metal?
Peace
I believe it's all metal. Don't know if the screen is glass, though. |
aksd
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I dont think so. Bits above and below the battery cover look plastic to me. It would be hard to make the entire phone metal. But I'm sure they've used good metal replacement composites where theres no metal on the X1 to make it look metal. Like a few Motorolas. Bit s of them are metal and the remaining very similar in feel to metal, but they're composite, which is easier to mould. And this gives an overall metal feeling to the phone.
HTC mentioned that their Diamond screen is some sort of scratch resistant glass, so I suppose the X1 might incorporate a similar type touch screen. But I know for sure its hard and not soft like the P1i or TYTn II.
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mib1800
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I think the X1 fate is getting bleaker by the day. Samsung gonna announce the i900 in late June and would be avaialble 2 weeks after announcment.
With the Diamond already shipping and i900 to follow suit soon and Touch Pro not long after that, X1 is now stupidly late.
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aksd
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And the i900 is supposed to have the Marvel PXA320 processor which has a maximum clock rate of 800Mhx although I resume its going to be underclocked to 624Mhz, the user should be able to clock it to 800Mhz easy. And its supposed to have upto DI resolution decode  using the intel MMX2 technology. Although it does'nt have 3D gamin acceleration it does have video acceleration as well as support OpenGL1.1 whereas the MSM 7200 supports only OpenGL1.0, although doubt that would much of a difference to the end user . But the i900 does seem to look better and better, should wait till the 21ist for the offical launch.
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thebluesman
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OK, before I get flamed to death, I am a hardcore Sony Ericsson fan and write this post with ahint of depressed resignation that Sony have finally LOST it. PLUS I'm talking about strategic high end Sony products ... hence that why I'm in the Xperia forum .. !! anyway ..
Let's face it ... by the time Ericsson get their act together they will be left
W ...... A....... Y behind.
The Xperia looks nice enough ... but the HTC is basically an Xperia in disguise.
OK, you can go on about the formats and carriers and whatever ... but ..
The Xperia is YESTERDAY'S solution and it's gonna look like a croc when it FINALLY gets released.
Samsung (very sexy phones) and Apple, looking at the phone as a convergent multi application (not just media) device.
Personally I don't want to walk around with an extended candy bar format phone bulging outta my pocket and that's what the Xperia is ..
Big and cumbersome.
Sorry to be negative, I love my Sony, but this time it seems .. they've run out of steam and are playing BIG catch up ..
The question is .. is what they're GONNA offer in Sep/Dec or Mar 2009 worth even catching up to ??
Get rid of that diamond affair at the end of the phone, make the screen bigger, thinner and you got something that could possibly be a future looking phone .. that can compete with the iPhone.
The problem with Sony is that they don't have the application development base that Apple has (for instance) and that means that Apple can port applications across 3 platforms. Mac, iPhone and the iPod range.
Let's face it, one year from now ... or whenever Sony decide to release their FLAGSHIP product, means an extra year for the likes of Steve Jobs and Co. to just add and add and add to their portfolio of systems and product offerings.
I've looked at the PAris model and frankly, it's a sad joke. Not something that I would EVER consider moving to because yet again, it's a tweak on existing offerings that are out there a plenty.
So ... I find myself in the unBELIEVABLE position of actually considering an iPhone.
Cos everything else Sony has out there just looks TIRED..
IF Sony made it ... I'd buy it ... but not if it's got valves in it with a slot at the back for inserting coal ..
Thoughts ?? .. |
aksd
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@thebluesman
Very valid points , especially about the X1 being out dated at its release.
But you did make one error, HTCs are not Xperia in disguise but its the other way round, the X1 is a HTC is disguise. Its built on a platform tried and tested HTC for the last 2 years in the least. Every phone has a minimum of 1.5 yrs lead time before launch, and the DIamond is already out, and I know for a fact that the DIamon R&D started in Nov 2006. Same platform as the X1.
But regarding the Xperia line, I think this is just the beginning, they will have a few more Xperia branded WM handsets made by HTC although I suppose with future models they will have a greater hand in the final product. Here I think this was more of damage control to save SE's high end line that they've given HTC a hurried order on HTC's current platform with SE's designs and whatever apps they want added.
Wheather a person is a fan boy or not, we post in such communities because we have a love for technology, and at the moment SE are not providing it, I'm far from being loyal to any customer so which ever phones got the best tech I'm on it lol. In todays market scene it just does'nt pay to stay loyal to a cellphone manufacturer as most of them dont even care about the induvidual user.
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ori
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I considered many factors about X1, and think that Sony should drop it, it is better not to release X1 at all, otherwise it may lead to loss and ever bigger gap between Sony and others. Though the position in camera phones market is quite good, I think Sony Ericsson portfolio lacks phones with charisma, there are phones with a very good and original design like T650, M600, yet mostly it is the ride on the T610 success basically I believe that the majority of Sony’s portfolio is based around developing the T610 ideas and few failed conceptions, that means that for 5 years Sony had one really working concept and two concepts (P series and the budget phones) that weren’t bad yet weren’t something really great (I love P900, but still it wasn’t near perfect), that all leads to the conclusion that either Sony should change its way of thinking dramatically or it will fail… |
Dups!
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I keep reading about Sony and I'm wondering who in the world is SONY?
It's not what you do or even how you do it but in what state of mind you do it: Dups! 2009 |
d-southwest
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Thanks for yall answers 
I dont know if this is something important stuff there saying, but maybe its something to look
http://www.myvideo.nl/watch/3891751 |
bavlondon2
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Nice video. Animations look a bit smoother but nothing new we havent already seen.
Will X1 use Opera 9.5 as standard?
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aksd
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@bav
As far as I know it uses IE, may change before release though, which is a long way off .
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iwantfatty
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IF Sony made it ... I'd buy it ... but not if it's got valves in it with a slot at the back for inserting coal ..
Couldn’t stop laughing at that, made my day thanks! - very true though |
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