Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 Review

There are lot phones that hit the market every year but only a few make their way to be successful, some phones create a lot of hype in the market even before the release and achieve tremendous success in the market, one such phone is the Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X1. This phone has made a lot of buzz about it all over the globe.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 is a Windows based Smartphone that has got the attention of Gadget Lovers. This phone is currently available in the USA and soon to be released all around the globe. The Xperia X1 will certainly make Apple Iphone and HTC touch pro run for their money, though the X1 is priced luxuriously.

Sony Ericsson xperia X1 Design

Specifications

Sony Xperia comes preloaded with Window Mobile professional 6.1 (which is a bit buggy). It has a 3 Inch TFT LCD touch screen with a screen resolution of 800X480 and 65,536 colors, Xperia weighs about 158 grams and it has 400 Mb inbuilt memory, and expandable memory with Micro SD Memory Cards. It has a talk time upto 10 hours, standby time upto 500 hours and video call upto 3 hours. [Demo at Sony Ericsson official website]

Design & Looks

Sony Ericsson has put a lot of effort on the looks and design and its efforts haven’t gone in vain. The innovation is seen in the perfection, giving this phone a stunning look and design, which can be rated among the best phones of sony Ericsson in the smart phone Category. It is a a four-directional navigation control with a press function and optical joystick navigation, using which you can brush your finger over the navigation key to move the pointer on screen. The slide out QWERTY physical keyboard which is beneath the phone making typing Emails and other messages simple and easy. [This will lead the phone to be used in landscape mode more often]. This phone is a bit thicker than the iphone.

Camera, Music and Entertainment

Sony Xperia comes with 3.2 MegaPixel Camera with auto focus and digital Zoom upto 3X. Another good feature in this phone is the “photo light feature”, which allows you to take clear pictures even during bad light conditions. There is also a touch auto foucs tool, which enables to set the focus to get the best picture. It supports Video recording too. It has Windows Media® Player Mobile, Music tones and sony Ericsson Trademark music features like Bluetooth stereo and PlayNow and also supports 3d games and Java allowing to add more interactive games and application to your smartphone. There is also a built in FM radio, and X1 has a standard audio jack. The 3.0″ screen does good justice to output the best clarity, to view Divx movies.

Sony Ericsson X1 panels

Sony Ericsson X1 panels

You do not access the same applications, when you are work and when you are at home. Sony Ericsson panels comes to this rescue. You can add as many panels as you want, and each panel is customizable with your applications, and even has desktop like alerts like message alerts, calendar appointments and much more. You can also download panels from other websites. A few users are however not pleased with the user interface and are displeased with the buggy windows applications and poor user interface.

Business and Connectivity

Sony X1 is loaded with very good features, which a high end business users would expect. You can access your email, calendar and tasks, on the go. You can also view and edit documents such as Microsoft word, excel, PowerPoint and Adobe PDF files. Taking the business experience to the next level, X1 also allows you to sync your phone with your PC in a easy fashion. With a large screen, viewing documents is quite easy and the menus are very similar to that of the PC, and allows you to add your most accessed features in the “quick links”. Threaded SMS gives you a ichat like experience and is boosted with powerful search features. Like you would expect, X1 supports multiple inboxes and attachments too. With X1, you can connect to the intenet using turbo 3G or use wifi, if you are in a hotspot. Email search is powered by google, so you can search your emails in a flash.

Security

Assuming your X1 gets stolen, you can have your phone locked and even delete sensitive information remotly. This gives business users the confidence, that no other mobile has provided yet.

Sony Ericsson X1 keyboard

QWERTY keyboard

Typing emails in the X1 is very easy with the QWERTY physical keyboard. While a virtual keyboard could save space, this QWERTY keyboard cleanly docks itself under the phone and comes into play, only when required. There is also a effective cut, copy and paste in sony Ericsson X1, making it easier for quick editing. If you are not a big fan of the QWERT keyboard, there is also a virtual keyboard at your disposal.

Assisted GPS with Google Maps

With turbo 3G, downloading maps is pretty quick. The advanced GPS locates you and can guides you to your desired locations, at a touch of a button.

Buy Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 (Black) – $799.99

Buy Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 (Silver) – $829.99

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