| Sony Ericsson have a good track record when it | | | | makes it easy to link into social networking applications |
| comes to their mobile phones, although slightly marred | | | | like Facebook and Twitter and see all the latest |
| recently with the poor performance of the short lived | | | | updates straight onto the home screen. Each |
| 12 megapixel Satio handset. | | | | application gets its own tile, as do photos, text |
| The Xperia X10 is a mobile phone that may well put | | | | messages and the like. |
| that bad experience well behind Sony Ericsson and | | | | Packed into the X10 is an 8.1 megapixel camera, which |
| also marks their first foray into the Google Android | | | | produces good bright photos with a relatively fast |
| operating system. Whilst this does mean that Sony | | | | shutter speed. The 16 x magnification digital zoom is |
| Ericsson now have handsets available on the three | | | | somewhat lacking at the highest magnification, but |
| most popular operating systems, each offers slightly | | | | otherwise you can expect good results from your |
| different capabilities. | | | | pictures. The camera doubles as a video recorder and |
| First and foremost the Xperia X10 is a slick looking | | | | there is a LED flash built in. Additional enhancements |
| touch screen handset with a large screen taking up | | | | include auto focus and face recognition to help you |
| the front of the device and measuring 4.7 inches, or 119 | | | | achieve clear in focus pictures. |
| x 63 mm, with 480 x 854 pixel resolution. Built into this | | | | Webrowsing is competent and there are the email and |
| are two special interfaces, one that they call | | | | messaging features you would expect to help you |
| Timescape, for navigating the social networking | | | | stay in contact. Other features include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, |
| features of the X10 and the other called Mediascape, | | | | hands free speaker and built in GPS. As this is a |
| which is an impressive front end media player for the | | | | Google powered phone, you get Google Maps as the |
| music, pictures and video you may store on it. Heavily | | | | navigation solution which has some nice features but |
| icon based, Mediascape allows you to view album art | | | | only currently has voice guided navigation in the USA. |
| for your music and browse your online picture albums. | | | | There is 1GB memory on the Xperia X10 and this can |
| There is also a link to the PlayNow download site to | | | | be expanded through microSD memory cards to |
| add songs to your collection. | | | | 16GB. |
| Through the Timescape interface the Xeperia X10 | | | | |