October 1, 2008

XPERIA X1 Released!



Yup! It's finally out folks! smile The release of the XPERIA X1 has marked a new era in mobile communications. With this new brand Sony Ericsson will position itself at the forefront of mobile convergence. wink

Just to remind you all, wink the X1 is an arc-slider phone with the Windows Mobile 6.1 Operating System. It is Sony Ericsson's first mobile phone to feature Windows Mobile.


The phone features a three-inch touchscreen overlaying a QWERTY keypad which emerges when the user slides the touchscreen face upward, much as in the HTC TyTN II, although the X1's touchscreen slides out in an arc. Its touchscreen is a 65,536-color TFT WVGA display. It has a 3.2 megapixel digital camera which records video at thirty frames per second in VGA (640x480) quality. There is also a secondary front facing camera for videoconferencing that is of QCIF format. Connectivity options for the phone include: mini-USB; wireless LAN 802.11b/g; Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, FTP, and HID; EDGE; and quad-band GSM, UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, and HSCSD. The X1 has 400MB of internal memory, which is expandable to 32 gigabytes using High Capacity microSD cards, although currently only cards up to 16 gigabytes have been released by SanDisk.The phone also features A-GPS for navigation. Standard features on the X1 include push email, an RSS feed aggregator, and handwriting recognition.

The device is powered by Qualcomm's ARM 11 MSM7200A CPU, which runs at 528Mhz. And for those who are still in the dark, the device's memory has been upped to 384MB RAM!!

The Xperia X1 was released on September 30, 2008, in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden. The US release date is expected to be announced on November 3rd, 2008, and in Q4 2008, Sony Ericsson is expected to announce the release date for other markets.

So what are you waiting for? Rush to the nearest store and grab your X1! mrgreen

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