You know how the Sony Ericsson X10 was launched a short while back? And you know how, at the press event, it was running on early software, which made it a bit sluggish? And you know how I said a new software build would fix that?
Yeah. Sony Ericsson have fixed it. Oh blimey, have Sony Ericsson fixed it. Y’see, another video preview of the Sony Ericsson X10 has popped up online, and it is looking, oooh, mightily impressive now. The first bit that the video shows of well is that… well, I’d been led to believe, in previous reports, that the Sony Ericsson X10′s camera hadn’t got a flash. It has. And it appears to be really bright. So, my one big bugbear with the design of the phone turned out to be unfounded, anyway! This has made me very happy.
And as for the software, well, check out the ten minute hands-on preview, and see for yourself:
Yep, that phone flies, now (as if there was ever any doubt it would). Now they’ve got the software up to a decent speed, we can finally see how good the Sony Ericsson X10 will be. And the answer is ‘very’. Put it this way, as I’ve said many times on this very blog, my next phone is going to be a HTC HD2. There’s no question about that, I have fallen 100%, completely, head over heels in love with it. I hold the HD2 up as the ultimate mobile phone currently in existence. It is superb.
The Sony Ericsson X10 is to Android phones what the HTC HD2 is to Windows Mobile. It’s the phone that takes the OS to a whole new level. In other words, I reckon that when the X10 is released, it and the HD2 will be the two best phones on the market, by a long way. In the end, which one you get will come down to which OS you prefer; I, personally, prefer Windows Mobile, so I’ll be getting the HD2, but that really is just a personal preference, because both operating systems are brilliant.
However, if you prefer Android, get the Sony Ericsson X10, because unless HTC make an Android-powered equivalent to the HD2, the X10 will be the best Android phone you can possibly buy…
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