Xperia X10.

Yes you have all seen the ad; Kareena Kapoor's funny antics tell you nothing about the phone.

The Xperia X10 is Sony Ericsson's late reply to the iphone 3gs and the 4.3" monster, the HTC HD2.

Key features

• Quad-band GSM and tri-band 3G support
• 10.2 Mbps HSDPA and 2 Mbps HSUPA support
• 4" capacitive touchscreen of WVGA (480 x 854 pixel) resolution and scratch-resistant surface
• 16M-color ready (65K effective colors under Android OS v1.6)
• Android OS v1.6 with complete Sony Ericsson UI customization
• Timescape and Mediascape UI
• Excellent social networking integration
• Excellent build quality
• Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon 1 GHz CPU, OpenGL ES 2.0 support; 384 MB of RAM
• 8 MP autofocus camera with LED flash, touch focus, image stabilization, geotagging, face and smile detection
• WVGA (800 x 480 pixels) video recording @ 30fps
• Wi-Fi and GPS with A-GPS
• 1GB storage, microSD slot, bundled with an 8GB card
• Accelerometer and proximity sensor
• Standard 3.5 mm audio jack
• microUSB port (charging) and stereo Bluetooth v2.1
• Document viewer
• Li-Po 1500 mAh (BST-41) battery
• Great audio quality

Main disadvantages

• No DivX and XviD video playback
• No smart dialing
• Limited storage available to the user on the system partition (you are left with only 512 MB for installing apps)
• No secondary video-call camera (or videocalling whatsoever)
• No free GPS navigation solution
• No Flash support for the web browser
• No FM radio
• An extra xenon flash would’ve made the very good camera perfect
• Feeble loudspeaker

The 8.1 Megapixel Camera with LED flash does take some good pictures . Timescape lets you access Social networks such as Twitter and Facebook and you can track updates from all your friends.

There’s MediaScapeMediaScape for organizing your media such as photos , music and videos and there is evenFace recognition for photos.

On the connectivity front , it’s got Wi-FiWi-Fi, Bluetooth , A-GPSA-GPS , HSDPA and a microUSBmicroUSB connector. Memory is expandable via a microSD slot and not some proprietary junk.

Finally Sony has managed to cram in a 3.5 mm audio jack.

Talking about battery life , we were told that it gives about 1.5 days of runtime and excessive use means it will last a day

The phone runs on Android 1.6 and there is no information if there will be an upgrade to 2.0

Priced around Rs.35,000, it is a good deal for sony ericsson fans. Others may wanna consider the iphone 3gs for a better OS, but a not-as-fast processor and a much lower spec camera. Better still, wait for the iPhone 4g and Nokia N8 before you burn a serious hole in your pocket.

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