XPERIA X10 Phone Family

We lucky people at Latemag got the opportunity to have some hands on experience with Sony Ericsson’s  Xperia™ X10 family before their official UK release in Q1/Q2 this year. Now I’ve always been a Sony Ericsson chick (my last 5 contract phones have all been Sony Ericsson) due to their superior battery life and easy to use menu systems (not to mention their sleek and shiny looks), but did the latest addition to the Sony Ericsson family live up to expectations?

Well first off, let’s take a high-level look at the specs…

Gone are the days when a phone was just a phone, digital entertainment required separate technological trinkets, social networking was still a buzzword gestating in the brains of PR gurus and no, we didn’t have an app for that. Nowadays we want to stay connected to the world at all times, we want a singular device to entertain us when we’re on the move and yes, we want an app for everything. This is where the Xperia™ X10 family ticks all the boxes; it’s just a case of choosing which sibling is your perfect match.

Making up the bunch to pick from are the X10, the X10 Mini and the X10 Mini Pro. All three are Sony Ericsson’s first Android compatible handsets. Android  is Google’s set of software for mobile devices including an operating system, middleware and applications. This opens up a whole new world of 1000’s of apps for your X10 phone. Also present across the range is Sony Ericsson’s Timescape™. Timescape™ manages all your Facebook™, Twitter™, photos, calls, emails, and texts all in one place and in one view like a deck of cards. The larger of the handsets, the X10 also has Mediascape, the smart way to get all the music, photos, videos you want from your favorite artists in one place.

As all three phones have very similar specs, choosing which of the siblings to go for is really a case of 3 main criteria, imaging, user interface and aesthetics. If imaging is your bag then the X10 has an 8.1 megapixel camera and Mediascape whereas the X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro have a 5 megapixel camera and no Mediascape. If you use your mobile to send emails on the go then you may do better with the X10 Mini Pro as this has a full pull out Qwerty keyboard, making longer texts and emails easier, as well as a touch screen interface (both the X10 and X10 Mini have just a touch screen interface).

All three models are great looking, sleek, thin and light although varying in size. The X10 is the bigger of the bunch with its 480 x 854 pixels WVGA 65,536-color TFT touch screen.

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