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Latest Xperia X10 UAProf highlights Gingerbread could be coming very soon
New UAProf’s (user-agent profiles) for the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 have been made public and highlight that the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update could be imminent. UAProfs are used to reveal a device’s properties for web page rendering and MMS exchange. The latest UAProf’s the X10i and X10a show Android 2.3 as the operating system. There’s […]
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Sony Ericsson releases Panorama App for Xperia X10
Sony Ericsson has released a brand new app for the Xperia X10 called ‘Panorama beta’. The app allows you to create an easy panoramic picture by selecting a direction, pressing the capture button and then panning the camera to shoot the photo. This is a ‘Sony Ericsson Beta’ app so it is still work in […]
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Xperia X10 Gingerbread update to bring new kernel, 16M colours and unlocked bootloader?
Whilst us Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 owners await the official Android Gingerbread 2.3 update to appear (hopefully next month), speculation is building on what the update may bring. Interestingly, there are rumours abound in a number of forums that suggest the X10 bootloader will be unlocked. We’ve got no hard evidence on this, just some […]
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AT&T Xperia X10 finally gets Android 2.1 Éclair update
We thought this day would never come. Sony Ericsson has announced that the Android 2.1 (Éclair) update for AT&T customers has finally arrived. This is seven months after the rest of the world’s X10s were updated to Android 2.1. The update will officially start tomorrow, May 31st and we’re sure that for many Xperia X10 […]
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2.1.B.0.1 firmware update rolling out to Xperia X10
A new firmware update has started to hit certain handsets. The v2.1.B.0.1 update is the latest firmware listed on the PTCRB site, which was certified on 24 May 2011. This new update comes on a new baseband too (2.1.67). Right now we’re not too sure what benefits this update brings – this is NOT Android […]
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Facebook inside Xperia heading to X10
Rikard Skoberg over at the SE Product Blog has given a quick update regarding Android Gingerbread on the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. There is no mention of timing but he says that “work is progressing well” and he will shortly reveal what features it will contain. However, he has confirmed that it will be getting […]
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Xperia X10 on sale for £150 in UK sim-free
In the UK? After a sim-free Sony Ericsson Xperia X10? Then Carphone Warehouse is now selling the handset for £150 including free delivery, whilst stocks last. This seems like a cracking deal, especially considering SE will officially be upgrading the handset to Android Gingerbread later in the year. Click here for details.
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Android Honeycomb SDK ported to Xperia X10
Android development on the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is continuing at a healthy pace. Chumby_666 from xda-developers has ported the Android Honeycomb SDK, meant for tablets, to the Xperia X10. It’s still at a pre-Alpha stage so at the time of writing only the basic things are working including Wi-Fi, GPS, the user interface, keys […]
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First photos of official SE Gingerbread update for Xperia X10
Some of the first photos of the official Sony Ericsson Android Gingerbread update for the Xperia X10 have been leaked by a user over at Chinese site ePrice. The images show the X10 running a launcher similar to the Xperia arc and the settings show it is running Android 2.3.3 with a 2.1.60 baseband and […]
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Xperia X10 Schematics available to download
Now that the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is over a year old, some of you may start to have problems with the handset as it starts to age. If you’re one of those people that likes to take action in your own hands then we’ve got a couple of PDFs that should help to give […]
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TripNMiUI Gingerbread ROM released
TripNRaVeR, one of the well known X10 devs over at xda-developers, has released his latest TripNMiUI ROM that now runs on Android 2.3.3 (Gingerbread). It’s still at the early stages denoted by the 0.0.2 release and is based on the MiUI user interface. He says it faster than the TripNMiUI Froyo on stock kernel and […]
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Xperia PLAY ROM system dump now available
It was a matter of time before the Android ROM system dump from the Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY was made available to all. The Xperia arc’s system dump gave us X10 owners the Xperia arc home launcher, but it’s unlikely the Xperia PLAY dump will give us anything significantly different. There are a number of […]
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Xperia X10’s still sold in selected Best Buy stores for $1 (with 2-yr contract)
As far as we were aware the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 went EOL in the US in February. Well it appears that selected Best Buy stores in the country are still stocking the handset, where it is being sold for $1 upfront on a two-year contract. It’s worth noting though that this is via AT&T, […]
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Xperia X10 comparison video – cracked bootloader versus Froyo CM 6.1.3
One of the big advantages of seeing the Xperia X10’s bootloader bypassed (apart from the ability to load custom ROMs) is the removal of the FPS cap that has been set by Sony Ericsson. We’ve attached an interesting video that shows this difference in action, where the user has two X10’s – one running on […]
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Xperia X10 bootloader bypassing no April Fools – first custom kernel released
This morning we reported that the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10’s bootloader might have been cracked. We wasn’t sure given the number of hoax articles we’ve seen around the blogosphere today given that it is April Fools Day. Anyway, xda-developer zdzihu has confirmed that the Xperia X10 has indeed been cracked and that it was no […]