Xperia X1, a rival for iPhone

Sony Ericcson Xperia X1

Sony Ericcson decided to join forces with Microsoft in order to realize a smart phone powered by Microsoft’s Windows Mobile, Xperia X1.

Xperia X1 will have a 3 inch touch screen and will include a full QWERTY keyboard within a quality metal-finish body, with a stylus and a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto-focus.

“They’ve really got some great consumer brands that we’d love to partner with and bring to Windows Mobile,” Microsoft Vice President Pieter Knook said in an interview.

The phone was introduced by Sony Ericsson during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona which heralded the advent of the XPERIA series. The first XPERIA phone was the Sony Ericsson X1. It has quad-band GSM (850/900/1800/1900MHz) and 4 bands of HSDPA/HSUPA (850/1700/1900/2100MHz or 900/1700/1900/2100MHz) support. It includes also WiFi connectivity. Xperia X1 measures 110mm x 53mm x 17mm (4.3″ x 2.1″ x .7″) and weighs in at 145g (5.1oz) and it includes also GPS support.

Windows Mobile is a compact operating system combined with a suite of basic applications for mobile devices based on the Microsoft Win32 API. Windows Mobile 6, formerly codenamed “Crossbow”, is the latest version of Windows Mobile platform and was released on February 12, 2007 at the 3GSM World Congress 2007. It comes in three different versions: “Windows Mobile 6 Standard” for Smartphones (phones without touchscreens), “Windows Mobile 6 Professional” for Pocket PCs with phone functionality, and “Windows Mobile 6 Classic” for Pocket PCs without cellular radios.

Sony Ericcson Xperia X1

It is possible to have soon Windows Mobile based smart phones manufactured by Nokia, Samsung and Panasonic.

Meanwhile, Techcrunch says that Microsoft has acquired Danger, a cell phone manufacturer with a revenues of $56.4 million (up 14 percent), and a net loss of $12.4 million (double from the year before) for the last fiscal year.

So, we will have soon Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android (where the founder of Danger, Andy Rubin, is now working for Google!), Sony Ericcson’s Xperia and, maybe, Microsoft’s Danger.

Do you feel the trend?

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3 Responses to “Xperia X1, a rival for iPhone”

  1. kelly Says:
    June 5th, 2008 at 11:42 pm

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    FULL SPECIFICATION FOR XPERIA X1

    General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
    3G Network HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100 / 1700

    Announced 2008, February

    Size Dimensions 110 x 53 x 16.7 mm

    Weight 145 g

    Display Type TFT touchscreen, 65K colors

    Size 800 x 480 pixels, 3 inches
    - Full QWERTY keyboard
    - Optical joystick navigation

    Ringtones Type Polyphonic, MP3
    Customization Composer, download

    Vibration Yes

    Memory Phonebook 1000 x 20 fields, Photo call

    Call records 30 received, dialed and missed calls
    Card slot microSD (TransFlash)
    - 400 MB internal memory
    - 128MB RAM, 256MB storage memory
    - Qualcomm MSM7200 528MHz processor

    Data GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
    HSCSD No
    EDGE Yes
    3G HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps
    WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11b/g

    Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP

    Infrared port No
    USB Yes, v2.0

    Features OS Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional
    Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant Messaging
    Browser WAP 2.0/HTML (IE), RSS feeds
    Games Yes + downloadable

    Colors Solid Black, Steel Silver

    Camera 3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels, autofocus, video(VGA@30fps),
    flash; secondary videocall camera
    - Built-in GPS receiver
    - A-GPS function
    - Java MIDP 2.0
    - FM radio with RDS
    - MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player
    - Motion sensor (with UI auto-rotate)
    - TrackID music recognition
    - Picture editor/blogging
    - Organiser
    - T9
    - Built-in handsfree
    - Voice memo/dial

    Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion, 1500 mAh

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  2. iPhone Says:
    September 15th, 2008 at 6:03 pm

    Good Stuff. Good Article. Useful information about the iPhone

  3. Chadhurbhujaya Says:
    February 15th, 2009 at 7:18 am

    There is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points in Features also.

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