The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 - Mobile Phone Review

Sony Ericsson have a good track record when itmakes it easy to link into social networking applications
comes to their mobile phones, although slightly marredlike Facebook and Twitter and see all the latest
recently with the poor performance of the short livedupdates 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 putmessages and the like.
that bad experience well behind Sony Ericsson andPacked into the X10 is an 8.1 megapixel camera, which
also marks their first foray into the Google Androidproduces good bright photos with a relatively fast
operating system. Whilst this does mean that Sonyshutter speed. The 16 x magnification digital zoom is
Ericsson now have handsets available on the threesomewhat lacking at the highest magnification, but
most popular operating systems, each offers slightlyotherwise 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 lookingthere is a LED flash built in. Additional enhancements
touch screen handset with a large screen taking upinclude auto focus and face recognition to help you
the front of the device and measuring 4.7 inches, or 119achieve clear in focus pictures.
x 63 mm, with 480 x 854 pixel resolution. Built into thisWebrowsing is competent and there are the email and
are two special interfaces, one that they callmessaging features you would expect to help you
Timescape, for navigating the social networkingstay 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 theGoogle powered phone, you get Google Maps as the
music, pictures and video you may store on it. Heavilynavigation solution which has some nice features but
icon based, Mediascape allows you to view album artonly 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 tobe expanded through microSD memory cards to
add songs to your collection.16GB.
Through the Timescape interface the Xeperia X10