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Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 Review – Power packed and expensive
Well we have got the Sony Ericsson’s most anticipated and awaited phone the Xperia X2, the original Xperia failed to deliver as with most initial versions. So we expect the Xperia X2 to perform much better in this regard. Lets have a closer look at this powerful phone.
Sony brings most of its products with advanced features and almost always leading by example, and hence there is nothing short of that here with the Xperia X2, it has a powerful 8MP camera in a full QWERTY keyboard phone all packed into rather compact phone. It is also worth to note that cameras in Sony Ericsson phones usually perform better than its competitors like Nokia and Samsung. Ohh and dont bother to compare it with Apple.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 – 110 x 54 x 16 mm
Samsung Omnia Pro B7610 -112.6 x 57.8 x 16.2 mm
Nokia X6 – 111 x 51 x 13.8 mm
Nokia N97 mini – 113 x 52.5 x 14.2 mm
Nokia N97 – 117.2 x 55.3 x 15.9 (18.2 max) mm
Well the Xperia X2 already has a competition in Nokia X6 in the dimensions area, though Nokia X6 only has a 5MP camera, in terms of other features and 40% lesser price, Nokia might get one ahead on the Xperia X2.
The phone looks good but the expected pricing of around $1000 is little too much for any phone, especially considering that this Xperia X2 doesnt bring anything totally new to the table other than a 8MP Camera on QWERTY phone.The phone has a Qualcomm MSM 7200 528 MHz processor and runs a Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional Edition. It has a RAM of 256 MB and ROM of 512 MB. The performance should be slightly better than the competition, but it ultimately depends on the OS + hardware combination, so its justified to compare Nokias running symbian OS and Xperia X2 running WinMo 6.5.
But a big letdown is the internal memory of only 110 MB and supports upto 16GB in memory cards. Unlike say N97 which comes with a 32GB inbuilt memory, this might leave many wondering why was the mass memory ignored.
Apart from the above differences it has typical features of high end phones like A-GPS,3.5mm audio jack, v2.1 Bluetooth with A2DP support,mini USB and a 1500 mAH battery with a 10 hour talk time on GSM.
The Xperia X2 still has a Resistive touch screen unlike the Apple Iphone and Nokia X6 model’s Capacitive touch screen which allows multi touch. So even in this respect the powerful X2 lags behind.
We dont expect the phone to be the best seller by any means, but will definitely come as a much improved phone overall compared to the first Xperia.
Below is the Full technical Specifications
XPERIA™ X2
Live life without boundaries
Facts and Figures
- Size: 110 x 54 x 16 mm
- Weight: 115 grams
- Colours: Elegant Black, Modern Silver
- Main screen: 65,536 colour TFT
- Resolution: 480 x 800 pixels (WVGA)
- Size: 3.2 inches
- Phone memory: Up to110MB
- Memory card support: SanDisk microSD™ and microSDHC™, up to 16GB
- Talk time GSM: Up to 10 hrs
- Standby time GSM: Up to 500 hrs
- Talk time UMTS: Up to 6hrs
- Standby time UMTS: Up to 640hrs
- Music listening time: Up to 20hrs
- Availability and versions
- Networks:
- XPERIA™ X2
- GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
- UMTS/HSPA 850/1900/2100
- GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
- UMTS/HSPA 900/1900/2100
- Available in selected markets from early Q4 2009.
Camera
- 8.1 megapixel camera
- Up to 16x digital zoom
- Auto focus
- Geo tagging
- Image stabilizer
- Send to web
- Touch focus
- Video light
- Video recording
Music
- Album art
- Bluetooth™ stereo (A2DP)
- Equalizer
- Sony Ericsson media player
- Music tones (MP3/AAC)
- Equalizer
- Sony Ericsson media player
- Music tones (MP3/AAC)
- PlayNow™ arena*
- Stereo speakers
- Windows Media® Player
Web
- Bookmarks
- Google™ search
- Internet Explorer®
- Pan & Zoom
- Web feeds
Communication
- Call list
- Conference calls
- Polyphonic ringtones
- Speakerphone
- Vibrating alert
- Messaging
- Microsoft® Exchange ActiveSync®
- Handwriting recognition
- Instant messaging
- Picture messaging (MMS)
- Predictive text input
- Text messaging (SMS)
Design
- Auto rotate
- Media
- Picture wallpaper
- Touchscreen
- Wallpaper animation
- Windows Mobile® 6.5
Entertainment
- 3D games
- Java™
- Motion gaming
- Tracker
- Video streaming
- Video viewing
- YouTube™ application
Connectivity and Softwares
- A-GPS
- Bluetooth™ technology
- DNLA Certified™
- Google Maps™
- Modem
- Synchronisation
- TV out
- USB mass storage
- USB support
- Wi-Fi™
- Organizer
- Adobe® PDF Reader
- Alarm clock
- Calculator
- Calendar
- Flight mode
- Microsoft® Office Mobile
- Notes
- Phone book
- Stopwatch
- Tasks
- Timer
Accessories
In-Box:
- XPERIA™ X2
- Battery
- Battery Charger
- Stereo Portable Handsfree MH500
- USB cable
- TV out cable
- 4GB SanDisk microSD™ memory card
- User guide
Optional accessories:
Bluetooth™ Headset PV740
Car charger AN300
Video Viewing Stand IM920
Symbian Series 60 v3 what is it? how is it different from UIQ ?
Symbian is a OS for mobile devices.Well everybody knows that, then what is this series 60 v2 and v3 and then they call feature pack.What exactly are these?.To know what they are we need to have a look at a bit of history.
Symbian Ltd is the original owner of Symbian OS , Symbian is currently owned by Nokia (47.9%), Ericsson (15.6%), Sony Ericsson (13.1%), Panasonic (10.5%), Siemens AG (8.4%) and Samsung (4.5%).
That time the UI was of different variants, It was fragmented between Nokia and Sony ericsson. Development of different UIs was made generic with a “reference design strategy” for either ‘smartphone’ or ‘communicator’ devices, subdivided further into keyboard- or tablet-based designs. Two reference UIs (DFRDs) were shipped – Quartz and Crystal. The former was merged with Ericsson’s ‘Ronneby’ design and became the basis for the UIQ interface, the latter reached the market as the Nokia Series 80 UI.
Later UIs were Sapphire,Ruby and Emerald. But in end it was Crystal for Nokia and Quartz for Sony Ericsson. By 2002 Symbian stopped development of UI and started giving its OS without UI. The UI development was taken by Nokia and Sony Ericsson. Whereas the Core OS is same for both companies UI’s differ. Nokia went on its development of Series 60 whereas Sony Ericsson came out with UIQ. Till this day this is the norm with both these companies, and even others like Motorola use either one of these UI’s.
Current major version of Symbian core is 9.1 and Nokia’s s60 v3 uses this version.Sony ericsson devices M600 and W950 uses this core. The Symbian 9.1 was a major upgrade from symbian 8.0 with more security and other features.
There have been three releases of Nokia S60: “Series 60” (2001), “Series 60 Second Edition” (2004) and “Series 60 3rd Edition” (2005). The third version is not compatible with earlier two versions and is based on Symbian 9.1.
2nd edition phones were the popular Nokia 3230,Nokia 6085,N70,N90,N72.
3rd edition phones include N73,N93,N95(with feature pack),E61i.
Nokia is planning to bring out the Series 60 v5 (they are skipping on v4 as 4 denotes death in Asia.. Im also from Asia but never knew this) in 2008, with support for touch screen much like iphone. But the only touch screen phone available currently from Nokia is 6708, it uses UIQ(sonyericsson’s) .
Nokia also has S40, the main differentiating factor being the S40 is not multitasking. You cant open more than a single application. Nokia 5300 is latest addition in S40.
S80 is the communicator series with Nokia 9300 and Nokia 9500. S90 being the N7700 or the new N770. S90,S80 and S40 are not compatible with S60.
S60 is also licensed and used by Samsung,LG,Lenova and Panasonic.UIQ is used by Motorola and others. Symbian covers almost 60+% of Smartphone market with Windows Mobile at 15% and Windows CE and RIM devices at 10%.