Sony Ericsson Xperia X10

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is truly powerful and impressive, this Android device features a slim profile design and brags about its 4’’ capacitive touch screen – bright, vibrant, The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 equipped with a Snapdragon 1GHz processor – handling different application at ease. Mostly importantly, an 8 MP camera is packed in, in conjunction with the 16x Digital Zoom and features like autofocus and LED flash, delivering an exciting photography experience.Also you can roam internationally throughout worldwide with Quad-Band network support on 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM and 3G network support on UMTS/HSPA 900/1700/2100, UMTS/HSPA 800/850/1900/2100

Main Features

§  8.1 megapixel camera with 16x digital zoom

§  GSM, 3G Support

§  4.2'' capacitive touchscreen display, 480 x 854 pixels WVGA

§  Google Maps

§  Wi-Fi

§  Build-in accelerometer

§  Support microSD

Package Content

§  1 x Sony Ericsson Xperia X10

§  Other Standard Accessories

Specification

Network

GSM/GPRS/EDGE850/900/1800/1900, UMTS/HSPA 900/1700/2100, UMTS/HSPA 800/850/1900/2100

Screen

4-inch, 480 x 854 pixels WVGA, 65,536-color TFT touchscreen

Memory

microSD? up to 16GB, 8GB included, Phone memory 1GB

Size (LxWxH)

12 cm x 6.3 cm x 1.3 cm

Gross Weight

0.400 kg

Package Size (LxWxH)

15 cm x 8 cm x 5 cm

MORE DETAILS
The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is a high-end smartphone designed by Sony Ericsson in the Xperia series. It is the first Sony Ericsson smartphone to run the Android operating system. The phone runs Android 1.6.

The phone features an 8.1 MP camera and a 1GHz  Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU. The screen supports DVD wide-screen resolution. It allows users access to "apps" available in the Android Market. Connection speeds up to HSDPA (3G+) are possible with the handset. It introduces a new UX platform that will evolve across the product portfolio and expand over time adding new features and capabilities. The UX platform gives Xperia X10 one application to lift together all the users different communications, Timescape, and one to lift together all the users media, Mediascape.

An Xperia X10 functions as a camera phone, including text messaging , a portable media player, and an Internet client, with e-mail, web browsing, and Wi Fi connectivity. The user interface is built around the device's touchscreen, including a virtual keyboard rather than a physical one.

Hardware

The display is a wide screen, aspect ratio 16:9, with WVGA resolution of 480 x 854 pixels, covered by a capacitive layer that is designed to detect touch by fingers. The 8.1 megapixel camera has with a 16x digital zoom, image stabilizer, auto-focus, geo-tagging, smile detection and face detection. The camera can also record video. The phone has a led light that will help taking pictures and video in poor light. The Xperia X10 has as a 3-axis accelerometer and built in GPS.

Networks

The Xperia X10 is called a quad-band phone as it covers all four GSM/GPRS/EDGE frequency bands, but is actually a multi-band phone as it also covers three or four UMTS/HSPA frequency bands. Xperia X10 is sold worldwide and therefore has both common frequency band layouts.

Software

Sony Ericsson has made its own custom overlay on top of the Android operation system called UX, short for User eXperience, which consists of design elements, themes and custom applications. The main applications are Sony Ericsson Timescape and Sony Ericsson Mediascape. Timescape is a program that lifts together Facebook, Twitter, SMS and mail into a flowing column on the home screen. Mediascape is a player and library application for media files that also connects to Facebook and Picasa accounts online and to the phone's contacts list. This makes it possible to attach photos you have taken with the camera to your contacts or send them to your Facebook account. The phone contains all normal smartbook applications and some stand out ones: Wisepilot (navigation software), Google Maps, YouTube, Sony's Play Now and TrackID (to identify a song by recording a small part of it).

Rooting

The X10 is an Android powered device. The Android OS uses a Linux kernel and has the usual Linux concepts of groups and user-accounts. One of the default user accounts in Linux is called the "root" user. This user has full control over the system. Obtaining "root access" on the system is important for the deployment of custom ROMs. Custom ROMs are usually developed to bring newer versions of the OS to the hardware.