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VIRTUALISATION Sony Ericsson launches first Android handset, meet the X10
VIRTUALISATION Sony Ericsson launches first Android handset, meet the X10 | Sony Ericsson launches first Android handset, meet the X10 |
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| by David Swan | |
| Wednesday, 04 November 2009 | |
  
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Timing aside, what's in the box..? Sony Ericsson has decided to utilize a new touchscreen user interface, which it calls the ‘UX platform’ and will provide “unrivalled” integration of social media, services like Facebook, Myspace and Twitter. The phone also promises to allow users to "truly humanise the way people interact with their phones". Rikko Sakaguchi, one executive vice president of Sony Ericsson, said in a statement that "With the X10, we are raising the bar we have set ourselves with entertainment-rich phones like Aino and Satio by making communication more fun and playful, multiplying and enriching opportunities to connect.” The phone comes with a 8.1-megapixel camera with a 18-times digital Zoom, LED Flash and autofocus, WiFi and HSDPA 3G, a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset, A-GPS and will be available in black or white. The Satio and the Aino that Sakaguchi is referring to are two Symbian-based smartphones that were released internationally last month, but aim at a slightly less upmarket audience compared to the X10, which will be the flagship model in Sony Ericsson's 2010 range of devices. Time will tell if the X10's announcement cannibalizes sales numbers for these other two impressive devices. The most noteworthy feature of the phone is its “4-inch capacitive touch display” that's capable of showing 854x480 pixels, making the X10 the smartphone with the highest resolution display, by far. For now. I personally prefer the device’s former name Rachael, but maybe that’s just me. Hopefully the X10 will bring a usability as futuristic as its new name suggests. No information on local availability just yet, but expect pricing to be as spectacular as its feature set.  |
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