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When Sony first announced the X10 in early November after spending some time on the rumour mill in online mobile communities, the world held its breath on what could have been the finest smartphone on the planet at that time.  But after a missed deadline, a missed Christmas and now a missed Chinese New Year, we’re still a patient lot, but it looks like the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 is now antique before coming out into its target markets.  That is really the danger when you officially announce a product and wait so long before it comes out.

You now have a Motorola Droid/Milestone, the Acer Liquid A1 and the HTC Bravo cum Google Nexus.  We’re not even talking of the non-Android smartphones that have taken the thunder right out of the XPERIA X10 promises.

At the recent Barcelona Mobile World Congress, we have become privy to an even more exciting bunch of Android phones using the latest Android Éclair like the HTC Desire, the Dell Mini 5 with a 5-inch display, the Samsung i8520 Halo, the Samsung i8250 Beam and the Garmin-Asus Nuvifone A50 slated to appear soon.

Sony has announced a couple of smartphones that sent eyebrows arching all the way to the roof – the Mini and Mini-Pro versions of the X10.  We are now wondering if the X10 will ever be out of the market.   None of the new X10 derivatives will run the new Éclair, but will stick it out with an antiquated UX-enhanced Android 1.6 platform.  It is clear that Sony wants to recoup and maximize the return on its developmental investments on it.

Getting Nostalgic About Its Features

It may be a good time to refresh our memories about how good the XPERIA X10 would have been had it been released as first promised.  With the smaller and less powerful X10-Mini and Mini-Pro out in the second quarter 2010, it would be interesting to finally see the X10 in all its glory before these two get out.

To begin with, the X10 aura begins with the promise of its multi-tasking Android 1.6 Donut that Sony extensively modified to sport a more impressive User eXperience or UX interface.  It was meant to run on the most powerful engine on the planet – the 1Gz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor that is now used in many smartphones. But with the march of technology, that won’t be for long.

Housed in a monoblock oozing with stylish panache and elegant touchscreen simplicity and weighing no more than the iPhone’s 135 grams, the X10 has the largest display for any Android phone – a 4-inch 16:9 aspect WideVGA capacitive touchscreen with a scratch-resistant surface.

Imaging comes as another superb specimen from the company’s Cybershot heritage. At 8.1 megapixels with face/smile detection, image stabilization, 8x digital zoom, WideVGA video recording at 30fps, photo-video light, geo-tagging from it’s A-GPS receiver and red-eye reduction, the X10 had it all when its competitors had only a few of these, never in one package. There are now better camera phones with 12 megapixel resolution or 720p video recording.

Other superb features on the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 are basically what you can expect from an upscale smartphone.  You get high speed data connectivity like 3G/HSDPA, WiFi 82.11 b/g with DLNA, and Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR and A2DP.  There’s a 1GB internal memory with microSD support for up to 16 GB, A-GPS with Wisepilot navigation, a digital compass with its magnetometer, Mediascape and Timescape apps and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

Just supposed we do not understand how to take good pictures with a digital camera. We only shoot directly the camera to out friends and family, and her e-mail the pictures so they can remember what they were doing five minutes ago.

Is it good results? Depends, If you want superb picture, use a digital camera class, aka DSLR (digital single lens reflex). In this camera, the image entering through a lens, then reflected from a tilted mirror view finder. When you take a picture, the lens must be moved. DSLR cameras are not just price and weight lighter. Her body was too thick.

But the Sony Alpha Nex5 uses different SLD (single lens digital). At the SLD, there is no mirror. Impact, the camera body could be diluted.

Example, Sony has a flange focal length of 18mm – this is the distance from the flange where the lens associated with the camera to “film” or planar where the captured image. As a comparison, the cameras MFT (Micro Four Thirds format) from Olympus and Pentax do it in 20mm, while the Samsung NX10 within 20.5 mm.

Another problem at the camera, the higher pixel selected (Sony Alpha Nex5 a camera with 14.2 megapixels), it becomes increasingly difficult to capture each pixel into the silicon.

But Sony is a major semiconductor manufacturer and the Exmor APC HD CMOS developed and used in Nex5, is extraordinary silicon. We are not able to explain it, so if you want to know please read on Sony’s site (http://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/technology/technology/theme/cmos_01.html).

Sony Alpha Nex5 has tight competition with the Olympus Pen E-P2 and Lumix GF1. But there are unique feature at the Sony Alpha Nex5: 3D Panorama Mode. This mode lets you shift the camera slowly along the line of view and catch it in one panoramic image. The camera will automatically ‘sew’ multiple images into one wide image.

Another feature is the ability to record HD video (high definition) 1080i. LCD Viewer it can be tilted so that you can still take pictures with a view of the rather difficult position, or in a narrow space.

The biggest advantage remains Nex5 Sony Alpha is the price. In the US, the Sony Alpha Nex5 which will be sold on June 2010 priced starting at US $650. And the rival with similar product sold at a price between US$500 and US$1,000.

Running on similar platforms both formidable in terms of performance. But when you are booting simultaneously then you will be bored waiting for the Arc, the article takes up to 160 seconds to achieve the look homescreen.

Inversely proportional to the Nexus S takes only 23 seconds. But the display of wealth still seems to belong to the Arc, on the homescreen present a variety of widgets such as Timescape and Mediascape innate.

Go to the menu, you will get the same thing, Arc consistency richer range of distinctive features as well as some additional applications.
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Not enough for Sony Ericsson smart phones with Bravia technology relies on the Xperia Arc.
Now Sony Ericsson Xperia mobile phone re-introduce Ray, who also pinned technology high definition (HD) commonly used on Sony television.

Xperia Glance Ray is not much different from the Xperia Arc, could even be said is’ identical twins. In addition to a touch screen that is mounted Bravia HDTV technology, Ray Xperia size is much smaller that is 3.3 inches, compared with Xperia Arc who already have a screen size of 4.2 inches.
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Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini screen is too small while the Xperia Arc is too big, confused right?

Not to be confused for a minute there who have Xperia Ray in the background both screen size is 3.3 inch with good enough resolution that is 854 × 480 (WVGA) or the same as the Arc.

Its design is more similar to Xperia X10 but is more cool Xperia Ray, plus there are 4 color choices.

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Just on the lines of S which now almost every other company follows like be it an iPhone 3GS or the famous Galaxy S or Galaxy S 2 or say HTC Wildfire S, Desire S and many such more phones to name it all of these have the “S” factor and now even Sony too stepped in this S war.

Sony logoIn a bid to counter attack the latest offerings by other companies, Sony has now got into the bandwagon of launching the latest products with its state of art expertise by announcing the launch of the optimally designed Sony Tablet which comes flavored with the latest Honeycomb 3.0 version of Gingerbread. Though this tablet is not yet commercially available, this is now code named as the S1 which will be built keeping in mind the rich media content as well as the needs of mobile communication as well as the entertainment.
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Still a lot of mobile users who do not need a smart phone with a special OS like Android, IOS and Windows Phone, so Sony Ericsson will launch the Sony Ericsson and Sony Ericsson Walkman Mix Txt Pro.

Mix Walkman, as the name of this phone specifically for you music lovers where in it there is a feature called Zappin that makes it easy to find your favorite song. There is also a feature so that you can follow-up karaoke singing.

Txt Pro, this one has a QWERTY keyboard and special for those of you who like social jejaringn which is equipped with special applications for Facebook and Twitter.

For a matter of taste colors, the edges can digonta change color. (more…)