Sony Ericsson XPERIA Photos and Review

Nirmal — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 12:48:01 +0000

Last week I purchased the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 after a long wait. The handset was not available in Mangalore, so had to get it from Kochi. I purchased the XPERIA from Sony Ericsson Experience store in Kochi. The handset is silver in Color and loaded with Windows Mobile Pro 6.1. This is my first handset on Windows platform. So here are few photos of XPERIA unboxing.

Good features XPERIA (only major ones are listed here);

9 Panel display looks amazing with few panels available for download and customizations. Facebook and Windows Live panels are useful.
Windows Mobile on touch screen is responsive
Great browsing experience with Opera Mobile
Good decent camera (3.2 MP)
QWERTY Keypad, which is one of the best features, extremely easy to type
Excellent build quality, aluminum finish
Brilliant screen 800 X 480 resolution.
Sufficient amount of RAM for speedy response

Improvement needed;

Any handset is not a perfect one and there is room for improvement for X2.

The music experience could have been better and so are the external speakers. The music player can be made Walkman
The optical joystick and buttons on the front panel could have had a better design

Overall the experience is great and I give a 9.5/10 for this handset. Now coming to the price, XPERIA is priced at 40000/- INR and this could be on a higher side. But when you consider iPhone at 35k and N96 at 36k, there is no complaint from my side for this handset to be priced at 40k as its loaded with tons of features and customizations.

I recoomend XPERIA for all people looking for a all-in-one smartphone.

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Sony Ericsson XPERIA Photos and Review