Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1
When it was announced a few months ago the Sony XPERIA X1 like Windows Mobile, the answer to the Apple iPhone, with its cool screens custom animations and icons.
What everyone to sit and listen is a promotional video that Sony Ericsson downloaded online.
The video shows an incredible imagination interface, with icons, zooming in and out and to flip - for the essentials, the promise of a shrill on the altbacken is usually the menus of Windows Mobile.
So, now it’s here, not the fulfillment of Sony Ericsson, the promise of a better smartphone?
In the
Prior to the Nitty-Gritty, we will look at everything you need for the more than 3 000 RM (according to official sources), you are obliged, for the XPERIA X1.
Apart from the handset itself, you get a charger, a pair of headphones with a microphone and of course the usual plethora of manuals, installation CD and brief instructions.
The X1 costs through its mini-USB and the group of Ignition, in fact, the power supply for recharging of the unit.
Of course you can, even if the X1 is to synchronize with your PC if you do not really need the device into the power adapter, if you synchronize with your computer several times per day and for power Topper.
The X1 itself feels pretty good in the hand - no more or less to thin smartphone, but it is sufficient that the narrow, well he holds in his hand.
On the front, the phone is always good for Windows Mobile buttons ready, in a kind of double-X model on each side of the directional pad.
This shows the X1 the first of its secrets - during the directional pad works, as you might expect, where you press up, down, left, right and center buttons, it’s like a block - and notes touchpad, with helps you to just above your fingers along the surface.
It is cool enough to do this, there’s really not much difference between using this method, by comparison with the directional pad.
Turn the X1 and you have a beautiful backdrop - the show is really a high resolution of 800 x 480Pixels screen, one of the highest currently available on any smartphone.
Thanks to the high resolution and the relatively small size, the screen looks Silky Smooth with the pixels that are really invisible from the field - I can not stress how beautiful on the screen of the X1 is.
It can not be said to the X1 the slide-out keyboard, such as on the QWERTY keyboard are simply too flat and in the form of wrong type with the ball with the thumb or fingernail not beat buttons on the side That you want.
Interface
I have previously said and I repeat it again the interface of Windows Mobile needs an Alienware seriously.
like the HTC Touch series, the XPERIA X1 has a duty to change altbacken menus of Windows Mobile with its flashier interface.
To begin, the X1 imitates the iPhone by “Flick-to-scroll” function, allowing you to focus on the whole by just Flicking your finger on the screen.
In addition, Sony Ericsson has some of its own applications, including a replacement for the Today screen with a big analog clock on the front and the links to the e-mail application and the wireless settings.
There is also a group of shrill X applications that give you a list of abbreviations animated a number of applications, including custom XPERIA the Today screen, built-in media player and radio, among others.
But even if it is cool is certainly the Group X has a practical benefit - on the one hand, it is not allowed to add links only a limited number of applications, rather than leave, add a link in any software you wish.
For another, the flashy animation (you enter either a tile or an animation to fan) slows the machine and not for accessing your software faster.
In addition, the X1 does not go far enough to keep you away from the interface and Windows Mobile need you to the whims of Windows Mobile e-mail application for all your e-mail and messaging needs.
It is not bad, for example, Windows Mobile 6 / 1 adds a text message with threads, much still needs to navigate the menus in order to send a message.
The entire software directly into the ROM to Google Maps, with the aid of GPS-X1 and best of all, the latest Opera browser for Windows Mobile 9.5.
9 / 5 Opera browser is a very solid and very much better, smoother and faster than Internet Explorer Mobile, which allows you to Web pages and zooming in and out of the columns are not as many Safari on the iPhone.
Oh yes, while Mobileis joint office in all Windows Mobile smartphones now, the version with Windows Mobile 6.1 enables you to open and save documents in Microsoft Office in his last 2007format.
As for the games, Sony Ericsson has a pair at the top of the Windows Mobile standard Bubble Breaker and Solitaire ie Sudokuand Astra product of Bejeweled 2 - Nice, but odd games work only in the landscape.
3.2-L ‘-megapixel digital camera with autofocus pretty good product especially when shooting photos of the full day.
With the Sony name attached to this phone means that you have a music and multimedia players, apparently better than plain old Windows Media Player Mobile and a radio tuner beautiful application with the built-in FM tuner .
One thing that I really liked that the X1 is equipped with a 3.5 mm stereo jack, so you Third earphones if you wish, that the supplied earphones are good enough for me and comes with a microphone to answer a call.
Ask
Battery life on the XPERIA X1 is only average - you can focus on one and a half days if you do not have WiFi for all.
If you have a little surfing via WLAN for an hour or two, however, to expect that from X1 until the end of the day.
We also have some problems with our unit from examining how the crash X1 several times during the day, and the problems remain even after hard reset, the device, and we started from zero.
To be fair, a small sticker on the side of the X1 on the packaging indicates that the device is a “unit test / prototype,” said the problems were due to the stability firmware n ‘is not yet completely done.
Hope that this in the retail version.
Final
In terms of size and shape, the XPERIA X1 is really not bad.
Unfortunately, the thing that really seems the X1 the Windows Mobile operating system itself, that Sony Ericsson can not go far enough with adjustments to a minimum, the problems with the operating system.
Their verdict? The material is pleasant, but for the price, Sony Ericsson really need to get the HTC Touch is now with his latest handheld PC, and really the X1 with the speed in terms of performance and cost.
