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30 November 2009 by
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Last week we were lucky to get a demonstration of the upcoming Xperia X10. The X10 is the device that can move Sony Ericsson in the lead again as a producer of high end mobile phones

Xperia X10 is Sony Ericsson's first mobile phone running on the Android operating system. The prototype is not a final product so a couple of features could be changed in the final product. The hardware are most likely final, but some software behavior can be different. It is around 4 months until the X10 will be available in stores. Rikard and Gustav from Sony Ericsson was flown in from Lund, Stockholm to Oslo to demonstrate what we can expect from X10.

 Xperia X10 facts

  • 4 inch TFT touch screen. 65536 colours, 854x480 pixels resolution, mineral glass with fingerprint coating
  • Size: 199 x 63 x 13 mm
  • Weight: 135 gram
  • Networks: GSM850/900/1800/1900, UMTS/HSPA 1900/2100 (and UMTS 800/850/1900 for America version, UMTS 900/1700 for the rest of the world)
  • WLAN
  • Bluetooth
  • Exchange ActiveSync
  • 8.1 megapixel camera, auto focus, geo tagging, face recognition
  • GPS
  • Auto rotate sensor
  • Built in compass

X10 application highlights

  • Timescape
  • Mediascape
  • Face recognition

The hardware is top of the range, but the real highlights are the two new intelligent Scape features.

Timescape is a features where the arrangement of the most recent events are in focus. A regular mobile phone order the incoming messages by time. The message you sent or receive last is listed before the older ones. Timescape are gathering many events like Twitter updates, Facebook posts, SMS, email, calls and pictures of your contacts into one single list. All events are tied to your contact list and a contact will be moved on top of the Timescape list when he posts something on Twitter or if you have received a SMS from the person. The events shown in Timescape can easily be filtered. Either by event source or event type. The X10 can recognize up to 5 persons in an image. So if you have captured a photo or sent an image of one of your contacts Timescape will move this contact to the top of the event list. By the introduction of Timescape, Sony Ericsson are focusing on the user experience in a way that the most used tasks are closest to the user.

Mediascape is a similar to Timescape, but this feature is focusing on media including videos, photos and music both online and locally stored. Each of the three content types have a dedicated home screen which is divided into local and online content. Clicking on an artist will list all songs by this artist stored locally on the device and online.

The X10 can be customized in all possible ways. It is Android, so that is not very strange. For example. Some mobile phones have a feature where you use the dial keys to enter the name of one of your contact. When you start entering 4(ghi), 6(mno) 6(mno) 3(def), the call application will list all contacts where the name starts with character h, ho, hom and home. X10 only interpret the key stroke combination as numbers. By downloading an new application from the Android Market, it is possible to replace the built in dial app with one that interpret the number key strokes as a search for a contact name. The substituted app can be set as the default dial application. Again. The X10 we tested was a prototype, so this behavior could change in the final product. We just mention this to show you the possibilities with X10 and Android.

This is a demonstraion of the Timescape. Keep in mind that the animation is a little slow due to the fact that this is a prototype. Neither hardware or software are final

 

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Comments
On 25 Dec 10:52 whisper wrote
Well, I wish SE well with this baby. I have watched this phone for 6 months or more.
They need to bring it to the market promptly and they need to market it, as Apple did the iphone. It need to be an affordable alternative to the iphone.
Many of these phones are niche market phones way more expensive than the average user can afford. Thats why Apple has been such an enormous success and have sold millions of their devices worldwide: they made their device accessable to the mass.
Is it too hard for these companies to work that out.
Good luck SE
On 22 Dec 08:24 joturnip wrote
how much does it worth?
On 19 Dec 10:04 Anand wrote
There is a flash right? whatever for me camera is the last thing.. i love my sony DSLR lol
but really the android looks neaatttt !!
On 14 Dec 14:08 Terry1738 wrote
No Flash no sell its a loser
On 14 Dec 03:45 Residentevil wrote
Well it is do or die for :se: , looks very promising so far.
On 11 Dec 09:15 naji123 wrote
will its nice but it is not fast enough
On 10 Dec 15:11 GammaSharma wrote
Hope the UI works like the Israeli ELSE INTUITION device.
On 10 Dec 14:52 GammaSharma wrote
The good thing about Android is that it has got a huge developer support and Android Market. Its about time Applications support become the selling point of smart phones. SE releases its phones when the market has been already flooded with cheaper Me-Too versions form Samsung. Hope they can time the release right this time with competitive pricing and the phone dont develope any software bugs.
On 9 Dec 20:06 whatWhat wrote
by the time this x10 comes out the htc dragon 5 will be out already! the way SE releases phones and their tardiness.
On 9 Dec 02:14 Jaylord wrote
Ahm the name of their new model is X10 and its OS is android right?? Woah that looks cooL, i hope SE will make X10 a cellphone like desktop. Hhehe
On 6 Dec 14:13 carkitter wrote
I'm going to replace my iPhone 3G 8GB with a white X10, there is no doubt.
This is the only phone that really seems to come close to the usability provided by the iPhone - nothing else in the smartphone market compares to this; it'll be HUGE for SE I reckon.
On 4 Dec 05:31 SokhaCambodia wrote
I'm the Fan for Sony Ericsson. Wish the price is not much expensive so that I am able to be the owner of Experia 10... Love it very much..... :)
On 3 Dec 15:30 Prom1 wrote
Well said Tim.

IF this can deliver on the performance and speed of doing everything it offers then consumer experience should be right up there with the hallowed iPhone 3GS.

I think SE should continue developing Android phones like this, and 1 with qwerty slide out keypad to combat Motorola which is quickly developing a lead in this area. I cannot believe HTC missed this opportunity.

Also I think this is the first :SE: phone to have a Blue hue on the camera lens in a LONG time.
On 1 Dec 22:41 KK wrote
"NeoMedia Barcode Scanning Application to Be Pre-Loaded on Sony Ericsson Mobile" on today's news.

"Today NeoMedia Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB: NEOM), the global leader in mobile barcode scanning solutions, announced that Sony Ericsson has selected NeoMedia as its strategic 2D barcode partner. Sony Ericsson will begin shipping phones pre-loaded with NeoMedia’s NeoReader barcode scanning application globally in the 1st half of 2010. The NeoReader will be pre-installed across all Sony Ericsson platforms."

What do you think of this?

On 1 Dec 17:45 Aivar wrote
There must be some mistake about UMTS frequency for America. I read from Olav Hellesø-Knutsen post:

"UMTS 800/850/1900 for America version."

UMTS version 800 and 850 is the same. Some tend to use 800, some prefere 850. But it's the same.

Frequencies of 3G [WCDMA] are: 400 (also known as 450), 850, 900, 1700, 1900, 2100.

Frequencies of GSM are: 400 (also known as 450), 850, 900, 1800, 1900.

On 1 Dec 17:41 Frank wrote
"i hope SE will give a solid OS to backup the beautiful hardware"

It has it is called Android!?!!
On 1 Dec 14:25 laffen wrote
X10 is out in 1st quarter. That means 4 months. No one has said anything about February 10th.
On 1 Dec 14:07 Rick wrote
4 Months?

We are in December and it's out on the 10th of February.

You can't put a spin on simple maths.
On 30 Nov 23:03 Gustav wrote
Hello,
could you make some photos of the calendar and its features please? A video of the calendar and the calendar features would be very very great. There are no photos or videos on the Internet about the calendar. You would be the first.
Thank you very much in advance!
Gustav
from Austria
On 30 Nov 18:09 NitroFan wrote
I think SE should wait until they can offer this thing with Android 2.
On 30 Nov 15:35 Mange wrote
Looks great to me. Iphone software is user friendly and really nice, but the hardware part is like 2004 (except the screen). I agree that they have to stick to the release date to have success, otherwise they are smoked. They also have to offer a quick upgrade to 2.0 SW.
On 30 Nov 13:59 nobody wrote
good one. but all depends on how good the OS is. iPhone did not set an example with only hardware. Even after several months of its launch, new devices are trying to surpass the milestone set by iphone. this sounds ridiculous in the pace at which the technology is advancing. i hope SE will give a solid OS to backup the beautiful hardware they have.
On 30 Nov 13:53 Rick wrote
You got the size wrong! Or that man has realy big hands :)
On 30 Nov 13:47 Tim wrote
I'd say it was make or break, but it's more like scrape by or break at this point. This looks like a nice Android phone, and if SE manage what they haven't managed with too many phones lately and actually deliver on the early promise then that's exactly what this will be. But the thing is, it won't be the only nice Android phone on the market, and it's very debateable whether it will be the best (or best value) by the time it's eventually released. There are other manufacturers prepping similar devices - just because they aren't giving previews four months in advance like SE doesn't mean they're not coming soon, or even sooner than this.

I wish them luck. I think, when all the fanboy spasms are over, they'll need it.

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