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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 discussion |
mattiL
Joined: Feb 18, 2004
Posts: 120
From: Sweden
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Thank's masseur, seems to be the same 'pre release' as the swedish phones.. |
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Jah
Joined: Jun 22, 2003
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From: UK
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I suspect the Vodafone devices may have a different ROM given all the rumours about Vodafone network issues delaying the launch - has anyone already got a Voda X1 -please check the ROM version/date.
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floatlite
Joined: Jan 23, 2002
Posts: 486
From: Glasgow
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I got mine today from Carphone Warehouse in Glasgow, they received them this morning. Apparently their main distribution centre got 730 on Friday, and drop shipped them to the main stores today.
They are all Silver models, and UK generic.
I got mine on a O2 upgrade, £40 month, and the phone was free, so far it's rather nice, OS is ever so slightly slow, but i'm sure it'll improve, and I'm amazed (but pleased) its a Micro SD card, not the usual Sony MS issue on SE handsets (I guess thats the HTC influence)
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hydro-
Joined: Aug 31, 2007
Posts: 137
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finally got mine today im writing this on my x1 right now! woop! The silver version looks so much better in real life than the black! I would totally recommend the phone to anyone. By the way I've got youtube to work fine on IE. |
masseur
Joined: Jan 03, 2003
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From: Sydney, London
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X1 review at MoDaCo
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Jah
Joined: Jun 22, 2003
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From: UK
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Hardware wise the X1 is the best polished piece of equipment I have seen, much better then the Nokia E90. Shows that SE is really a hardware company. Only if SE were more like Apple in designing fully integrated devices we could have so much choice at the high-end.
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Jah
Joined: Jun 22, 2003
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From: UK
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On 2008-10-25 21:43:40, masseur wrote:
Member 'hutchy' at www.xperiax1.net reports about the Voda ROM "my voda x1 is 1.02.161.7 and dated 17 sept 20098"
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matthewf01
Joined: Mar 20, 2003
Posts: 169
From: Georgia, USA
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On 2008-10-25 13:52:38, gforce23 wrote:
On 2008-10-25 12:32:46, matthewf01 wrote:
For us American users (which as far as I remember seems to be just myself and WhyBe  ), I've taken a gamble and placed an order with clove.co.uk since they are claiming to have the phone in stock.
Hopefully I get the damn thing; if I have luck I'll let you know These international orders always worry me! Anyone in the UK get theirs from Clove? I wanted to confirm they really are totally unlocked-unbranded...
Another (future) X1 owner from Hotlanta here..
Matt, where in GA are you? I'm combing eBay to see if I can get a decent deal. Let us know if you actually receive one from Clove.
[ This Message was edited by: gforce23 on 2008-10-25 12:54 ]
Hey man; I'm in Dunwoody GA. You?
Wish there were some mobile phone shops in this city, I feel so left out that I can't go check out so many of these phones in person that everyone else always gets 'hands-on' with so casually 
I'd been scanning ebay every day since X1 dropped in Sweden...nothing good to note. Here's to hoping Clove comes through! I will certainly let everyone know my luck. |
norbi_nw
Joined: Nov 27, 2006
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From: Romania, Timisoara
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@rodin69
sorry i skipped that page by accident.. first pic is great, the others... well fair.
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gforce23
Joined: Aug 25, 2003
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From: Atlanta, London, Dubai
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On 2008-10-25 23:05:50, matthewf01 wrote:
On 2008-10-25 13:52:38, gforce23 wrote:
On 2008-10-25 12:32:46, matthewf01 wrote:
For us American users (which as far as I remember seems to be just myself and WhyBe ), I've taken a gamble and placed an order with clove.co.uk since they are claiming to have the phone in stock.
Hopefully I get the damn thing; if I have luck I'll let you know These international orders always worry me! Anyone in the UK get theirs from Clove? I wanted to confirm they really are totally unlocked-unbranded...
Another (future) X1 owner from Hotlanta here..
Matt, where in GA are you? I'm combing eBay to see if I can get a decent deal. Let us know if you actually receive one from Clove.
[ This Message was edited by: gforce23 on 2008-10-25 12:54 ]
Hey man; I'm in Dunwoody GA. You?
Wish there were some mobile phone shops in this city, I feel so left out that I can't go check out so many of these phones in person that everyone else always gets 'hands-on' with so casually
I'd been scanning ebay every day since X1 dropped in Sweden...nothing good to note. Here's to hoping Clove comes through! I will certainly let everyone know my luck.
I live in Buckhead.. moved here after spending 3-odd years living just off Ashford Dunwoody Rd.
There might be a dearth of mobile phone shops around here but there are quite a few WinMo,  and Nokia fans.. a bunch of us are on Craigslist 24*7 scanning for high end phones. There's a guy in Roswell who is a big fan of WinMo devices and I suppose he might have gotten the X1 already.
By the way, what color did you order? I hope it ain't silver. 
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pinguino1
Joined: Aug 20, 2008
Posts: 174
From: New York, USA
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On 2008-10-25 20:08:19, koto wrote:
@bider
Thanks, nice pictures. Bigger X1 screen is obvious, although not wider at all. I hope 65 colours doesn't affect the overall experience.
Hi Koto,
Hi resolution at 65000 colors beats low resolution at millions of colors. Hands down any day of the week.
I don't have the X1 YET but I proved it to somebody in another forum against the iPhone. with the following example:
Let's do the math.
Xperia 65000 color = About 10000 shades of blue
iPhone 16 million colors = About 3 million shades of blue
Xperia screen size 2.57" x 1.54"
iPhone screen size 2.90" x 1.96"
Xperia screen resolution 800 x 480
iPhone screen resolution 480 x 320
Xperia in 2.57" displays 800 shades of blue
iPhone in 2.90" will displays only 480 shades of blue
NOW THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION:
Assuming both go from the same dark blue (B1)to the same light blue,(B8)
which one has the smoothest shade?
A- the one with 800 shades in a compact 2.57"
B- the one with just 480 shades in more spread 2.90" lenght
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In case you are the rare exception who gets the wrong answer
look at this simplified example:
B1 is dark blue and B8 is light blue
<----2.57" 800 blues-->
Xperia
B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8
B1......B3......B5......B7......B8
iPhone
<-----2.90" 480 blues------>
Did you notice that in the iPhpne colors b2, b4,b6 are missing because it doesn't have the resolution to display them?
NOW THE 2 DOLLAR QUESTION:
which one is more likely to have color bands showing?
If you answer this one wrong again you are a hopeless... iphone fanboy
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@WhyBe
I don't have the X1 YET, but I'm sure you can see the difference. In the example above iPhones has 320 blue shades less. That must be noticible. That will be the first test I'll make. You can see the diference between X1 and Pro in the Asia.Znet comparison (see the link in my yesterday post)
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matthewf01
Joined: Mar 20, 2003
Posts: 169
From: Georgia, USA
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On 2008-10-25 23:51:26, gforce23 wrote:
Hey man; I'm in Dunwoody GA. You?
Wish there were some mobile phone shops in this city, I feel so left out that I can't go check out so many of these phones in person that everyone else always gets 'hands-on' with so casually
I'd been scanning ebay every day since X1 dropped in Sweden...nothing good to note. Here's to hoping Clove comes through! I will certainly let everyone know my luck.
I live in Buckhead.. moved here after spending 3-odd years living just off Ashford Dunwoody Rd.
There might be a dearth of mobile phone shops around here but there are quite a few WinMo, and Nokia fans.. a bunch of us are on Craigslist 24*7 scanning for high end phones. There's a guy in Roswell who is a big fan of WinMo devices and I suppose he might have gotten the X1 already.
By the way, what color did you order? I hope it ain't silver.
I'm very close to Ashford Dunwoody
Speaking of Craigslist, I need to find a buyer for my K850 soon.
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WhyBe
Joined: Apr 02, 2008
Posts: > 500
From: Ohio, USA
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On 2008-10-26 00:48:05, pinguino2 wrote:
On 2008-10-25 20:08:19, koto wrote:
@bider
Thanks, nice pictures. Bigger X1 screen is obvious, although not wider at all. I hope 65 colours doesn't affect the overall experience.
Hi Koto,
Hi resolution at 65000 colors beats low resolution at millions of colors. Hands down any day of the week.
I don't have the X1 YET but I proved it to somebody in another forum against the iPhone. with the following example:
Let's do the math.
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NOW THE 2 DOLLAR QUESTION:
which one is more likely to have color bands showing?
If you answer this one wrong again you are a hopeless... iphone fanboy
And just simply comparing pic-to-pic/screen-to-screen, I doubt anyone could see the difference. |
yoshi77
Joined: Aug 06, 2003
Posts: 81
From: US
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@matthewf01 & gforce23
Good to see some fellow Americans on here awaiting the X1 as well. We're all so close to each other too, I'm in Roswell, GA. I'm waiting to see what SE tells us about the X1a on November 3rd. I'm still hopeful that there will be a AWS 3G version that will work with T-Mobile so I won't have to switch to At&t. |
michka
Joined: May 17, 2004
Posts: > 500
From: Brussels-Belgium
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On 2008-10-26 00:48:05, pinguino2 wrote:
On 2008-10-25 20:08:19, koto wrote:
@bider
Thanks, nice pictures. Bigger X1 screen is obvious, although not wider at all. I hope 65 colours doesn't affect the overall experience.
Hi Koto,
Hi resolution at 65000 colors beats low resolution at millions of colors. Hands down any day of the week.
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NOW THE 2 DOLLAR QUESTION:
which one is more likely to have color bands showing?
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[ This Message was edited by: pinguino2 on 2008-10-26 00:04 ]
Now, let me think..... Suppose you want to look at a black and white picture.
How many shades of grey with a 16 bits screen?
Ahem.... 32!
With a 24 bits screen?..... 256.
Which screen will show the most banding? On which screen will the same B/W picture show best?
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