by X10 on September 3, 2010
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The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 was the company’s first Android smartphone, which was quickly followed with the X10 mini, X10 mini pro along with the upcoming X8. The company clearly has high aspirations for Android as Chief Executive Officer Bert Nordberg said that it aims to be the largest supplier of Android smartphones, without giving any timeline.
He went on to say that the company currently has an impressive 17 percent Android market share, behind the leading (unidentified) player at 23 percent. It probably doesn’t take a genius to figure out that HTC is most likely to be the leading Android vendor and taking over their position will take some asking. Do you think they can do it? If so what does the company need to do better to reach number 1? Let us know in the comments below.
by X10 on September 3, 2010
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Sony Ericsson has announced a new TD-SCDMA Android handset for China Mobile called the A8i that takes more than a few influences from the current Xperia X10 family. The handset comes with a 3.5-inch (854 x 480) display, 5MP camera along with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS support.
The phone runs a custom flavour of Android called OPhone that is common within the region. Pricing and availability isn’t known for now, but it is expected to be released in two colours, “Titanium Black” and “Shiny White”. We may even see Sony Ericsson release this display size and chassis across western markets at some point in the future too.
Sony Ericsson Spain has confirmed on their Facebook channel that the Android 2.1 (Eclair) update for the Xperia X10 will launch during week 38 (20th to 26th September). That fits with the “end of Q3” timeline we’ve been given previously – it’s good to know that this date still appears to be entact. No other details are hinted at, however we’ll keep you posted with further developments.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 owners are faced with a matte black or glossy white colour choice when choosing their handset. However, some X10 owners are not satisfied and are starting to mix & match the housing colours to produce some quite striking results.
We’ve got some pictures below showing a ‘stormtrooper’ Xperia X10 (the front glass is black and the rest of the housing is white). However, this does require some knowledge in disassembling the phone to switch the colours around (if you’re interested, the Xperia X10 disassembly guide may help). If you can’t be bothered to go through all the effort you could simply just change the colour of the battery cover (check out some pics of that too after the break). [Read more…]
For those of you that follow football will no doubt know that Sony has been sponsoring the UEFA Champions League (the most lucrative football tournament in the world) for years now. Now Sony Ericsson is jumping on the bandwagon and has become “the official mobile handset of the UEFA Champions League” until 2012.
As part of the new partnership, Sony Ericsson will be developing a new mobile application for the Xperia family of smartphones, in conjunction with UEFA.com. It’s unknown what this will entail but the app will utilise the “GPS capabilities of Xperia smartphones”.
The Sony Ericsoon Xperia X8 Android smartphone passed through the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) earlier this week and brought with it the handset’s manual too (see the above link for the PDF).
Engadget also spent some hands-on time with the 3-inch device and have been told by reps that it should be priced under $300 when it lands in the US. The X8 will arrive loaded with Android 1.6 but will get the Éclair update in Q4. Their first impressions were of a chunky handset, but with intuitive and responsive UI. However, they found the keyboard to be a little too cramped.
Sony Ericsson has released the first promotional video for the Xperia X8. The video highlights the Android market, YouTube, the four corner shortcuts, sharing photos, browsing apps/contacts as well as SE’s proprietary Timescape app. Hopefully the release of this video highlights that the Xperia X8 launch is just around the corner. Check out the video after the jump. [Read more…]
by X10 on August 21, 2010
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The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 launched in the United States last week at a very reasonable $129.99 with a two-year contract. However, one of the phone’s biggest talking points – the lack of multitouch – has come back in the frame after the Sony Style website claims that the Xperia X10 comes with a multitouch display.
The website says that the handset sports “an expansive, 4″ multi-touch screen, the X10 showcases your movies and photos in awe-inspiring fashion.” Now we don’t expect this to be anything other than a typo, especially as Sony Ericsson officials have laid this issue to rest a number of times in the past. [Read more…]
Sony Ericsson has come up with a novel way to market the Xperia X10 mini pro Android phone. It involves augmented reality, so you’ll need to print out a special marker and then hold that in front of your webcam. The video below gives you a hint of what to expect and the great thing is that you can also win a X10 mini pro in the process too. Click here for the full details. [Read more…]
by X10 on August 21, 2010
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Chinese manufacturers are really good at imitating pretty much any gadget out there. They can also be quite inventive, which seems to be the case for the “X10 Pro” that has a 3.2-inch display, dual-sim and a slide out keyboard much like that for the X10 mini pro.
There’s no disguising which phone is the influence for the X10 Pro and the back also seems to include the SE logo without mentioning the ‘Xperia’ brand name anywhere on the clone. The phone runs its own proprietary OS (no stock Android here) and costs $118.01 for those willing to bite. Check out some more pictures after the cut. [Read more…]
Justin Timberlake uses a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Android handset. Well that’s if Engadget is to be believed with their photo detective work. However, before you feel vindicated about your choice of mobile (or not), the real interesting part of the story is that Timberlake may be running a special Éclair update on his X10.
The evidence comes from a tweet that was sent on 1 August (5 days before the picture of him carrying an X10 was snapped). The tweet is from the ‘Twitter for Android’ app, which of course is not available to us donut-totin’ X10 owners, it’s only for Android 2.1 handsets. [Read more…]
