The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is an arc slider mobile phone delivering a premium, converged mobile experience addressing web communication and multimedia entertainment.

The XPERIA X1 runs Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1, an open platform and applications designed for X1 will run on other Windows Mobile 6.1 devices with the same screen resolution and hardware features. The XPERIA X1 combines a 800×480 pixel WVGA touchscreen, a wide-pitch full QWERTY keyboard, WiFi, A-GPS, a 3.2 megapixel camera and 400MB user free memory in a quality metal-finish body. The Java ME Platform is also supported with CLDC 1.1, MIDP 2.0 and other JSRs.

Exclusive to Sony Ericsson, the XPERIA panel user interface on the desktop gives access to different options using finger-tip navigation and is configurable by the end-user. The XPERIA X1 seamlessly integrates interaction between the touchscreen, full QWERTY keyboard, 4-way key and optical joystick.

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Mobile Phone Features

• Weight – 145g
• TFT Touch screen
• Full QWERTY Keyboard
• Bluetooth
• USB
• SMS
• MMS
• Email and instant messaging
• 3.15 mega pixel camera with auto focus and flash
• FM Radio with RDS and MP3 player
• Display:
- 800 x 400 pixels/4"
- Touch Sensitive
• Network:
- 2G 850/900/1800/1900 (Quad-Band)
- 3G: 900/2100 (Dual-Band)
- HSDPA (10Mbps)
- HSUPA (2Mbps)
• Camera:
- 8 mega-pixels (auto-focus)
- 8 x Digital Zoom
- LED Flash
- Image Stabilization
- Smile Shutter
- Face Detection
• Video:
- VGA Video Recording
• Music:
- Supported formats: MP3, AAC, eAAC+
• Ringtones:
- Monophonic
- Polyphonic (64)
- MP3
- AAC
• Messaging:
- SMS
- MMS (with video)
- E-mail (POP3, SMTP, IMAP4, MS Exchange)
• Memory:
- Phone Book
- Dialled Calls
- Missed Calls
- Received Calls
- microSDHC (external)
• Call Features:
- Hands Free
- Caller ID
- Voice Dialling
• Connectivity:
- miniUSB
- 3.5mm AV connector
- Bluetooth (2.1)
- Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11g)
• Navigation:
- AGPS

All in all we have to give the Xperia X1 high marks, especially for Sony Ericsson’s first attempt at a Windows Mobile device. Having HTC by your side definitely helps, but we like Sony’s innovative panel interface even if it isn’t quite as good as TouchFLO 3D. The screen is downright gorgeous, and the keyboard one of the better ones we’ve used. There is room for improvement though, and we eagerly await the X2.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 is one of the best phones on the market today in terms of both build quality and usfulness, it works and works well. The Xperia X1 can easily be your mobile office and portable entertainemt center, with Windows Mobile at the heart of the Xperia, most people should be very familiar with it and how it works. The full keyboard and angled screen make using the Xperia easy and a pleasant experience, the angled screen allows for much easier viewing..

We're very impressed with the device, after initially doubting it could bring enough to the table to compete with the more affordable Sprint HTC Touch Pro and HTC Fuze on AT&T. The hardware is impeccable, the panels are both fascinating and useful, and of course there's no carrier bloatware! Though other phones offer many of the same features, somehow the Xperia X1 has that special sauce where the whole is greater than just the sum of its features. It's fun, it's cool...


The bottom line: The Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 is a well-designed and fully stocked smartphone that offers great customization through the interactive panel interface. However, with its high price tag, the X1 will be a hard sell for most customers and will be a purely luxury item.


Smartphone Fuses Floundering Features Together With Mixed Results We've been waiting since CTIA to get our mitts on a fully baked X1. As the full-featured flagship of Sony Ericsson's multimedia phones we had high hopes for the device. The spec sheet reads like a recipe for excellence: multiple high speed data options, customizable menus, YouTube support, with music and video apps bursting out the no-no place. But seven months later? Meh. This powerful phone may have gown...


When i saw this product before launch, i decided to buy this one. Finally i got my hands on this phone last week (disposing of my old phone took time). First impression was WOW...overall performance is good, reading email, replying them is good and easy thanks to the QWERTY keyboard but the touch screen keyboard is not so good and easy to use...i wish they can make it more spacious and easy to use. Love the panel innovation on the smartphone genre... Although...






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The X1 is an arc-slider phone with the 6.1 Operating System. It is Sony Ericsson's first mobile phone to feature Windows Mobile. The device also has a virtual machine (JBed) and supports JavaME that is claimed to have a richer set of features than typically available.

The phone features a three-inch resistive overlaying a keypad which emerges when the user slides the touchscreen face upward, much as in the , although the X1's touchscreen slides out in an arc. Its touchscreen is a 65,536-color display. It has a 3.2 mega pixel 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; bluue tooth 2.1 and quad-band. The X1 has 512MB of internal memory (400MB free), which is expandable to 16 gigabytes using High Capacity micro sd cards, currently cards up to 32 gigabytes have been released by SanDisk. The phone also features for navigation.

The X1 ships with opera mobile pre-installed.

Standard features on the X1 include push email an , and handwriting recognition.

It is also able to use the gsm network featur

The device is powered by sMSM7200A CPU, which runs at 528 MHz. The device's memory is 256 MB.

Display

• 3" resistive touchscreen with a resolution of 800x480 pixels (WVGA)
• 65 thousand color tft display

Device colors

The phone is available in 2 colors

• Solid Black
• Steel Silver

Physical Attributes

Dimensions: 110.0 x 53.0 x 16.7 millimeters; 4.33 x 2.09 x

0.66 inches
Weight with battery: 158.0 grams; 5.57 ounces

Battery

Lithium-Polymer, 1500 mAh.

Talk time:
GSM: 10h
WCDMA: 6h
WCDMA video call: 3h

Stand by:
GSM: 20.8 days
WCDMA: 26.7 days

Connectivity

The Xperia X1 supports an ‘always on’ 3G broadband Internet connection with high-speed data transfer. This enables audio and video streaming, Web surfing,

multimedia messaging and email.

Connectivity options include

• 3.5G broadband
• HSDPA with download transfer rate up to 7.2 Mbit/s
• HSUPA with upload transfer rate up to 2.0 Mbit/s
• WiFi
• blue tooth with a range of 10 meters
• GPRS modem for dial-up Internet
• Synchronization and content sharing with PCs
• USB mass storage
• USB cable support

Software Features

Windows® Mobile® Operating System• Microsoft® Outlook Mobile: email, contacts, calendar, tasks • Microsoft® Office Mobile: Word, Excel, PowerPoint • Opera Mobile • Windows Media Player™ Mobile • Windows Live™ • Exchange ActiveSync® • Voice control • Utility Applications: file explorer, calculator, pictures & video, notes

Facts and Figures

Size: 110 x 53 x 16.7 mm Weight: 145 grams

Available colours: Solid Black or Steel Silver

Main screen: 65,536 colour TFT Resolution: 800 X 480 pixels Size: 3 inches

Memory Phone memory: up to 400 MB microSD™ memory card support

Availability and Versions Networks GSM / GPRS / EDGE 850/9

00/1800/1900 UTMS / HSDPA / HSUPA 900/1900/2100 MHz UTMS / HSDPA / HSUPA 850/1900/2100 MHz

CONNECTIONS COVERED

There is no way that the unlocked Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 is going to leave you hanging at that pivotal moment. With Quad-Band GSM and Tri-Band 3G connections, everywhere you go you'll have signal. This world phone offers a Wi-Fi signal to surf around the internet, and of course Bluetooth and USB to store data.

Design
For once, the photoshopped images haven't lied. The X1 is every bit as stunning in the flesh (or in the brushed metal, as the case may be). The arc-slider slips fluidly on its rails with a satisfying snap when opened or closed. The four-row QWERTY keyboard is excellent, even if it seems a tad too small at first glance. Using the keyboard is easy, even at night, thanks to its bright backlighting and well spaced buttons. Unlike many keyboards on smartphones the X1 dedicates buttons to common punctuation, saving you from having to dip into symbol menus to find an "@" symbol for email addresses, etc.

The touchscreen has a WVGA resoltuion (800x480) which is 2.5 times higher than that of the iPhone 3G. This sounds like a good thing, and for watching videos it is; however, we've found this resolution fills the screen with sharp, but tiny characters. Some menus, like the alphabetical listing in the contacts menu, is entirely illegible because the letters become so small. Even with the fonts adjusted to the largest setting we've still struggled to read some elements of the screen.

Importantly, this means the X1 isn't a finger-friendly touchscreen. During our testing, we've relied on the stylus for input more than with any touchscreen we've seen for a long time. This is disappointing; using the stylus significantly slows down input and hampers the usability of a touchscreen phone.

Panels
Sony Ericsson is putting a lot of faith in its extensive Windows Mobile skin called the Xperia Panels. While companies like HTC also skin WiMo with a custom interface to increase ease of use, the Xperia Panels is a system offering numerous interface options. Out of the box, the X1 has seven panels pre-installed with from a Sony Ericsson web portal.

Our first impressions of the Panels weren't particularly favourable. The seven pre-installed Panels range from being too cluttered to use to being utterly useless. For example, one of the more attractive panels featuring three swimming goldfish barely shows notifications and offers no shortcuts to frequently used apps — hardly an interface you'll leave active for very long.

It wasn't until we downloaded a Facebook panel and another by Windows Mobile modders that we saw how excellent this system could be. The Spb Panel acts exactly like the one the company designed for all Windows Mobile handsets, and the Facebook Panel is as good as any app on the iPhone — in fact, it looks more like an iPhone app than a WiMo app.

Features
Under the Panels the X1 is a pretty standard Windows Mobile. At its announcement during World Mobile Congress earlier this year, the X1 was set to be best-in-show, with features to blow everyone else out of the water. That was almost a year ago and now the X1's connectivity combination of HSDPA, Wi-Fi and AGPS isn't exciting, but is nonetheless essential to the productivity of customers looking to use the phone for business purposes.

For pleasure seekers, the X1 is a pretty mean multimedia machine. As mentioned above, videos look amazing on the the high-res display, and one of the pre-installed panels is the Sony Ericsson Walkman music player menu. Our only recommendation is that you upgrade the bundled headphones to a pair capable of producing a well-rounded sound — the 'phones in the box are too light on bass to be of much use.

The X1 also sports a 3.2-megapixel camera with auto-focus and an LED photolight. These specs aren't extraordinary for a smartphone these days, but its performance was much better than expected. The photos we took during testing showed good colour and focus, and even photos at night turned out well — the bright LED managing to illuminate subjects within about two metres of the lens.

Performance
Exploring the phone's performance, through accessing common apps and the menu structure, has provided us with a real mixed bag of results. The X1 runs a 520MHz Qualcomm processor with a massive 256MB RAM, and for the most part this is sufficient. Executing Java apps and opening menus is pretty pacey, and launching other programs, like Opera Mobile, requires only a few seconds of loading time.

Xperia Panels seems to require more resources, however. We noticed considerable lag between pressing the Panels' soft-key and having the interface active, and again after a Panel was selected. For this reason we tended to remain in the panel we found most useful, though this obviously defeats the purpose of having nine active panels to choose from.

Responsiveness, or the lack thereof, seems to be the crux of the first impressions for just about everyone we showed this phone to. While executing applications seem fine, there are too many times when the X1 stops responding to input — immediately after sending an SMS, for example.

Battery life cycles were, in our experience, low to average. Sony Ericsson estimates a whopping 10 hours talk-time for its 1500mAh battery. We saw only about a day and a half between charges, with moderate use of calls and messaging, and push email active throughout the cycles.

Overall
More often than not, we either love or hate the phones we see. The X1 is a rare example of a smartphone that has grown on us over the course of our review. The first few days tested our patience as we turned to the stylus too often, and indeed this element hasn't changed, but with the right Panel interface active, using the X1 is easy enough. In truth, we could do without the Xperia Panels. Of the 15 available at launch, we might use two, and the Panels system seems tremendously resource inefficient.

That in mind, the X1 is a well-featured phone that checks all the important smartphone boxes. We don't love the X1 — the frequent lag spikes are frustrating, and there are definitely cheaper and more intuitive smartphones available — but we think it's a gallant first attempt at a WiMo smartphone and a very attractive handset at that.