Let's start off the Barcelona Mobile World Congress with SE. Sony Ericsson have quite a few touchscreen Symbian UIQ devices… but the recently unveiled Xperia X1 promises to be its next flagship device.
One of the reasons is that it’s running Windows Mobile. However, it’s not your normal touchscreen Windows Mobile. Sony Ericsson have added a new feature… panel navigation.Here’s a demo video of panel navigation…
Sliding QWERTY keyboard
800x480 display!!!
The Specs:- GSM/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA
- 3-inch WVGA (800x480) 65,536 colour TFT display
- High quality video recording & playback at 30fps
- Web feeds
- Touchscreen UI
- Multiple input & navigation - Touch, QWERTY, Optical Joystick, 4-way Key
- Windows Mobile
- 3.2 Megapixel Camera
- aGPS
- Handwriting Recognition
- 400MB Phone Memory
- microSD slot
Now… for the bashing…I’ve never liked SE devices - this one isn’t going to make me change my opinion. Before considering its specs, let me talk about SE ultra-deficient marketing department. The two “official” SE websites looks to have been made by amateurs - the specs website is total disaster. As for the device itself, they’ve chosen the wrong colours for displaying the panels… (This may be the last time I’m posting a SE device).
Anyway, the device has a very innovative (while ultra-ugly) panel interface built on Windows Mobile 6. It has a touchscreen & loads of buttons (triangular!?!?!). OK, I admit it has a very large screen (800x480) & microSD slot (instead of Memory Stick), but it is ugly-looking. Only 400MB of memory. If you are adding a QWERTY slider (which is ripped from an ATM), you would expect more gadgets… but there’s only WiFi, GPS & 3.2 MP camera… Goodbye SE. Back to business with Nokia in the next post!
It's rumoured that HTC made this device for SE... so it may explain why it's so "good."
More Live Pics here.More info here.
The Specs