Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Sony Ericsson has officially launched the Xperia X10, formerly known by
the codenames X3 or Rachael. The X10 is the company's first foray into the Android market, but the announcement comes at an odd time, especially with Christmas drawing near.
Sony Ericsson today announced the Xperia X10, a visually stunning phone that has a feature set to match its good looks. The phone isn't set to drop until 2010, however, and this means that potential buyers of Sony Ericsson's current flagship phones, including the Satio and Aino, will now possibly wait until the release of the X10.
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.
David Bass
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