Phone designers are desperate to prove the technique of reinventing the wheel will work to outcompete the popular iPhone. Needless to say, most have failed.
Nevertheless, consumers have anticipated today's release of the Motorola Droid, offered on Verizon networks. The Droid is very intentionally meant to compete with any and all (excluding iTunes compatibility) of the iPhone's features including price points.
Xperia X10
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FacebookI was pretty sure the Droid would be the best thing we could get to an actual iPhone killer and yes, I was impressed by the phone and its marketing technique. Then I saw the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. First, I'm surprised I'm lauding anything starting with "Sony Ericsson," but I have to say, they've really outshone their previous models with this new android phone.
The phone is, of course, a big touch surface with Wifi, bluetooth, you know, the works. I was impressed by the phone's inclusion of a wireless bluetooth headset which looks strikingly similar to a pair of headphones connected to an iPod shuffle.
I've always found it amusing these phone companies and products like the Zune need commercials whose feeling of having fun and being social need to be forcefully infused via the commercials rather than built around a following or naturally brewed from user experience. After all, the iPhone commercials were merely a few clips of people answering the phone from old black and white movies. Today, they've evolved into nothing more than a finger playing with the screen.
Anyway, here's the specs.
Camera
- 8.1 megapixel camera
- Up to 16x digital zoom
- Auto focus
- Intelligent face recognition features
- Geo tagging
- Image and video stabilizer
- Photo and video light
- Send to web (photo and video upload)
- Smile detection
- Touch focus
- Video recording
- Recent shot tray
Music
- Album art
- Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP)
- Media player
- Music tones (MP3/AAC)
- PlayNow™
- TrackID™
Web
- Bookmarks
- Google™ search (from standby)
- Web feeds
- WebKit web browser
Communication
- Sony Ericsson Timescape™
- Speakerphone
- Vibrating alert
Messaging
- Conversations
- Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync®
- Picture messaging (MMS)
- Predictive text input
- Text messaging (SMS)
Design
- Auto rotate
- Gesture control
- Picture wallpaper
- Touchscreen
Entertainment
- 3D games
- Media browser
- Infinite button
- Video streaming
- Video viewing
- YouTube™
Organiser
- Alarm clock
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Flight mode
- Infinite button
- Office suite
- Phone book with dialer
- World clock
Location-based services
- A-GPS
- Google Maps™
- Wisepilot™ turn-by-turn navigation* (free trial version)
- *The service may not be available in every market. For more information, go towww.sonyericsson.wisepilot.com
Connectivity
- Bluetooth™ technology
- Micro USB connector
- Synchronisation
- USB support
- Wi-Fi™
Preloaded applications
- Sony Ericsson Timescape™
- Sony Ericsson Mediascape
- Sony Ericsson Home with clock widget
- Sony Ericsson Sync
- Android Market™ Client
- Gmail™
- Google Calendar™
- Google Maps™ with Street View
- Google Media Uploader
- Google phone-top search
- Google search widget
- Google Talk™
- Google Voice Search™
- Network Location Provider
- Set-up Wizard
- YouTube™
Screen
- 262,144 colour TFT touchscreen
- 4.0 inches
- 480 x 854 pixels (WVGA)
- Scratch-resistant
Accessories
In-Box:
- XPERIA™ X10
- Battery
- Stereo portable handsfree
- 8 GB microSD™ card
- Micro USB cable for charging, synchronisation and file transfer
- User documentation
Optional:
- Hi-Fi Wireless Headset with FM Radio MW600
- Car Charger AN300
- Screen Protector ET902
Facts 1)2)
- Size: 119 x 63 x 13 mm
- Weight: 135 grams
- Phone memory: Up to 1 GB
- Memory card support: microSD™
- Memory card included: 8 GB
- Operating system: Google™ Android Donut, version 1.6
- Processor: 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon™ QSD8250
Comments
No FLAC support is the biggest disappointment.
Ok- this phone is insane. I'm waiting to find out what carrier it's on. The specs show EXTREME POWER for a smartphone and the pics show off great SEX APPEAL (the only thing that up to this point DroidDOESN'T)
aac, mp3. Win win.
insane spec's, insane sex apeal, insane accessories, insane design. I want this phone so bad that I can feel it in the palm of my hand. I hope T-Mobile gets it if not I will shove out the money to buy a unlocked one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
X10 has many shortcomings compared to Droid
1)No Flash
2)Android 1.6 vs Droid has Android 2.0
3)No Ambient Light sensor( Display brightness automatically adjusts as per the outside light - dark vs bright )
4)No Voice activated google maps navigation
5)Video capture for X10 is at lower resolution then Droid
6)Biggest of all: No physical keypad
7)Price for X10 is more then two times of Droid
Yeh but the droid is ugly and the UI is ugly and it doesn't have Mediascape nor does it have image stabilizer, face recognition, smile detection, etc etc
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