The Sony-Ericsson XPERIA X1

I’m not the biggest fan of Sony-Ericsson phones (with the exceptions of their fantastic high-resolution cameraphones like the K850i, but they’ve certainly proved me wrong today with the introduction of their new XPERIA X1 mobile phone.

This is a huge step for Sony-Ericsson because it’s a departure from their usual OS (UIQ/Symbian) to Windows Mobile which is one of my favorite phone operating systems due to the large amount of software available for it.

This isn’t just any regular old Windows Mobile phone, however. Sony-Ericsson took the road paved by HTC with their touch Touch of customizing the user interface running on top of Windows Mobile to make it more usable with fingers. Their proprietary “Panel Interface” looks quite a bit like Seattle-based Zumobi’s UI, with shrunken representations of program windows so you can see what programs are running and switch between them.

It’s got a 3.2MP camera, a 3 inch WVGA touchscreen (that’s more pixels than the iPhone with a little less screen area), A-GPS, Wi-Fi, EDGE/UMTS/HSPA data on all bands you’d find around the globe (oddly including 1700 MHz, which matches up with T-Mobile’s AWS spectrum for HSPA in the United States, a truly rare frequency offering on a global mobile phone).

Press Release - Sony Ericsson

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