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The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is without a doubt the hottest smartphone Sony Ericsson mobile this year - learn why in this test.

The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 smartphone has pretty much everything you need, and should make a statement that the developer is a strength with which it in the coming years. But although the potential is certainly there are shortcomings in the performance.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 provides many functions already visible on the Sony Ericsson mobile phone. His previous products in the segment of smartphones emergence of new ideas were limited by the slow, somewhat illogical UIQ interface.

By contrast, the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1, but the kitchen sink in the kitchen and the use of Windows Mobile 6.1. That gives you many advantages in comparison with its predecessors, but it also makes clear that some ways impressive. It also lacks a bit of Sony Ericsson "touch" in various ways.

The exterior of the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 has a receiver for the eye, we have long since made by Sony Ericsson in relation to its Walkman music phones, a 3.5 mm jack for headphones. It is the first Sony Ericsson and where we have seen before that, for all Windows Mobile phone. Congratulations. Most of the phone is solid, with a budget of metal, but the button almost ridiculous plastic unstable, contaminated our first impressions.

A joy, the functionality of Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is the crusade navigation, with a central button, with a touch surface. It is not entirely in our tastes, as a pointer is found nowhere else on the screen, a better implementation of functionality, such as the Samsung I780 at the beginning of this year.

Well, what instead of the way, but we have the old school click more efficient. We found another use for both the navigation Cross, when the keyboard is extended, because there is no arrow keys on the keyboard. After you complete five key in the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 cousin of the HTC Touch Pro, which bothers us a little that you can use the function to access the numbers.

In addition to the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 keyboard is of good quality, light, with buttons with separate sitting outside a thumb. It is quite handy for writing, but here is not as comfortable as with the HTC Touch Pro, corresponds.

There are good reasons that we continue on the HTC Touch Pro, as phones are more or less identical in terms of hardware. The "Sony Ericsson" XPERIA X1 is used by HTC, if Sony Ericsson climbed into lengths of communication, they've got the phone without Title: Entrance. Also, it is logical that the two, because the two phones are Windows Mobile-based and are also in the same price category - at least in the Swedish market.

The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is a little more RAM and the display is 800x480, compared to the right-Tressen of VGA resolution in the Pro Touch. That there on the screen and thus the entire X1, a little longer and narrower tank, why not also own key on the keyboard.

The basis of Windows Mobile on the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 has, like all Windows Mobile phones with touch screen, was accompanied by a graphical interface called X-house group, as the system itself is the guide for the definition of the word disturbance.

The X-group consists of a number of different startup screen appears, as a network or a fan. The only screen, you can not replace a built-in (or download) Other models is the main Today screen, which is the basis of Windows Mobile. The applications include a media file drawer we have seen in other models from Sony Ericsson, a calendar wallpaper, radio, Google and so on.

The best screen, as we have seen during the trials is available for free download and is an adaptation of Spb Mobile Shell, but simply shows the normal Windows does not, but reinforces the importance of promoting use of their fingers instead of the index with the stylus.

The idea behind the X group is solid, the execution less. A large part of the information is in two copies (in some cases three times) on the screens, which feels a little superfluous, but our main concern is the speed. It only takes a few seconds to the X-Group, a few seconds to the library in the media. Most of the other pop-up displays quickly into low-resolution mode, but are blocked by using another seconds before the version with high resolution Join Customs

Another community is the emergence of cards in which the objects in a group depends on the screen after the past. We are quite sure that the error can be through a firmware update, but it is not just a phone so late, in our opinion. For comparison, the HTC Touch Flo 3D works very quickly and without problems - at least in the Pro Touch.

Another thing to us is the lack of features that we have done with Sony Ericsson, the things that have contributed to their own mobile phones better. The music player is something recognizable from the Walkman phone of goods, provided they comply with the format of music.

Otherwise they are a little chaotic mobile version of Windows Media Player. Receive add-ons such as dealing with the media at a distance via Bluetooth or the characteristic theme song ID recognition also to be desired, and will probably remain so. Not even the music store Play Now Arena is on the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1, despite the large combine Sony Ericsson has in other channels.

The same goes for the camera. Sony Ericsson Cybershot has always been at the forefront of camera phones, but the 3.2Mp camera and software on the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 Windows Mobile are standard rooms - which are quite ropey.

On a positive note, we would like to mention the range of applications in the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1, always the great strength of Windows Mobile. Apart from MSN Messenger and Office package, among many other things, the opera replaces Internet Explorer as your default Web browser, which is an improvement (even if IE is for those who prefer), and Google Maps is installed. Although we prefer Google Maps for the processing of the cards in the rule, we would like in the navigation and especially the nature of perception, Wayfinder that Sony Ericsson has been a precedent role that have been here.

The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is without a doubt the hottest smartphone Sony Ericsson mobile this year - learn why in this test.
Specifications

53x110x16.7mm; 146G; quad-band GSM, WCDMA, HSDPA, 3in, 800x480 pixel display, battery time (talking): 10 hours of battery time (Idle): 440 hours Memory: 400 MB, Windows Mobile 6 / 1 with X - group; 3.2Mp; light, GPS SCF

Verdict

All in all, the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 is a telephone, and in cooperation with the HTC Touch Pro is without doubt one of the best Windows Mobile smartphones to this day. The disadvantages are slowly boring and the fact that Sony Ericsson in some cases took the easy road with the functions of Windows instead of the implementation of its own higher compared to the platform. A large part of this assessment can be established, before it is to kill microbes and accelerate the software, but our long-term commitment for the next XPERIA phone has a better observance of Sony Ericsson very heritage. Especially when, it seems, we still need a little more time for the issue of the next generation of Windows Mobile.