Selling my soul for the devils beautiful X1 (Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1)

Member Name: csao62

Product:	Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1
Date:	18/04/09 (70 review reads)
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Advantages: Great looking phone, fast processor

Disadvantages: Poor OS, tinny speakers

After selling my soul for the Xperia X1 from Sony Ericsson, I have to say that I would do it again, time and time again!

From the first glance at the fantastic large screen, to the silvery finish of the keyboard, the X1 is very well presented. For a reasonably chunky unit, the silver and black give it a sleeker look, reserved for the more flashier models that tend to lack in substance, Trust me here though, as the X1 doesn't lack in substance either.

The screen has a great resolution, combined with its size, resulting in crisp images. Either from your memory stick or the inbuilt camera. The screen is also touch, and whilst being equally responsive to Apple's Iphone, it does require using a stylus or your finger nail which results in having to stop and fiddle about with the phone.

The phone has more inputs than most super computers, with a touch screen, 4 way key pads and an tilt sensitive nubbin. You will find the touch screen the most responsive of the 3 and the most readily used.

The keyboard, full qwerty mind you, is great. With even spacing between keys and each key raised a suficient amount so you can press which ever key you need, even if you have nice chubby fingers. When you slide out the keyboard, the X1 looks great still becoming much slimer, and the screen rotates from portrait to landscape. However the phone has many little software hiccups and often will rotat late, or leave graphical inconsistencies on the screen.

The unique panel interface is definately original, allowing you to acces the phones programs and abilities in a variety of different looking front faces. Whilst the stock panels only change the aesthetic, and leaves the actual ease of access the same, other panels such as the facebook panels actualy change the programs pegging order, alowing the more important features to stand out and be used. Unfortunately all this system realy does is shows how difficult and fiddely the deep windows operating system is to use. Despite the different faces the underneith is still the same. The only pannel which changes that is the SPB pannel, which whilst accessing the programs and features, does so in a more graphicaly friendly, not to meantion finger friendly manner. This means that options are linked much more logicaly, firmly burying the messy vanilla interface.

The call quality is good, and the sony music software is nice, if not that beefy, due to a stupidly small speaker. This is fixed by the great headphones included.

The phone is quite fast, occasionaly backlogging up commands then tripping over itself to catch up. This is due to great processing power, but obvious memory issues.
Despite its shortcomings with the occasional graphical hiccup, and OS problems, I wouldn't change the phone for the world.

Summary: Despite its shortcomings, this expensive phone is one all executives out there should have!

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