Sony Ericsson Announces the Xperia X10 Google Android Based Cell phone.

Today Sony Ericsson their first Google Android based cell phone the Xperia X10 in a press event in London. The Xperia X10 will feature a 1Ghz Snapdragon chip, a 4.1-inch wide capacitive touch display, and an 8.1 mega pixel camera with LED flash, 1 gigabyte of internal memory and an 8 gigabyte microSD card included which is expandable to 16 gigabytes, also supports Bluetooth and a 3.5 mm headset jack. The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 will run Google Android version 1.6 with Sony Ericsson’s Android based user interfaced called “UX” which stands for user experience on top. The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 has a strong emphasis on social networking & communication integrations by using what Sony Ericsson calls Timescape. Timescape aggregates your social networking such as Facebook & Twitter, text messages, missed calls, emails all in one place though stacks on the screen, which can be filtered by source or by person. Another feature of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is Mediascape, which puts all of your photos, music, and video all in one place in a similar sense that Timescape does for social networking & communication. Also Mediascape will not only gather media you have stored on your phone but it will also gather media online, and also make suggestions in genres of music according to what your listening to. The Xperia X10 will also feature facial recognition, which will recognize up to five faces in any picture and will automatically sync them with whatever social network they are on & also any related communication with that person. The Xperia X10 will have the standard on screen Android keyboard unfortunately there is not a slide out keyboard as a lot of people thought. According to Engadget website site Sony Ericsson plans on putting their UX user interface on future handsets both Android based and Symbian based. The Xperia X10 will have the standard Android web browser and use Google Maps for navigation. The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is to be available in selected markets in the 1st quarter of 2010 in both black and white. One thing I did notice in the press release was the cell frequencies that the cell phone runs on, which does support T-Mobile USA 3G (1700/2100) frequencies. Below is a video of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 shows the basic functions of the cell phone, the handset used in the video is a preproduction model of the cell phone. To see the press release and complete spec sheet go to the Engadget website.

Go to mobilenewsnow.net for the video.