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The Xperia X1 is a high-end smartphone from Sony Ericsson, manufactured by HTC Corporation, and is the first in the manufacturer’s Xperia series. The X1 was first presented at the 2008 Mobile World Congress.
The X1 is an arc-slider phone with the Windows Mobile 6.1 Operating System. It is Sony Ericsson’s first mobile phone to feature Windows Mobile. . The device also has a Java virtual machine (JBed) and supports JavaME that is claimed to have a richer set of features than typically available.
The phone features a three-inch resistive touchscreen overlaying a keypad which emerges when the user slides the touchscreen face upward, much as in the HTC TyTN II, although the X1′s touchscreen slides out in an arc. Its touchscreen is a 65,536-color TFT WVGA display. It has a 3.2 megapixel digital camera which records video at thirty frames per second in VGA (640×480) quality. There is also a secondary front facing camera for videoconferencing that is of QCIF format. Connectivity options for the phone include: mini-USB; wireless LAN 802.11b/g; Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, FTP, and HID; EDGE; and quad-band GSM, UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, and HSCSD. The X1 has 512MB of internal memory (400MB free), which is expandable to 16 gigabytes using High Capacity microSD cards, currently cards up to 32 gigabytes have been released by SanDisk. The phone also features A-GPS for navigation.
About the Xperia™ X1
No need to beat around the bush — the very thing that caught everyone’s attention when this beauty was originally unveiled was its magnificent body. From end to end, top to bottom, the XPERIA X1 is drop-dead gorgeous. Yeah, you could probably credit HTC for that, but either way, there’s no denying just how striking this piece is in the hand. Sure, it’s a bit bulkier than some of the fashionphones we’ve seen lately, but it’s hardly “thick” for a WinMo powerhouse. In fact, we actually admired the heft and felt that it was just thick / heavy enough to feel “solid” without bleeding into the undesirable realm of “chunky.”
Quite frankly, it’s astounding the level of detail that’s here. From the brushed black aluminum body to the tasteful chrome accents to the curvaceous slide-out keyboard, it’s easy to see that every square millimeter of this was combed over before heading to production. The high-end exterior doesn’t end there; flick your thumb against the loose side of the front panel and experience a silky smooth opening that reveals a chrome / silver QWERTY keyboard that’s just begging to be touched. And if you take this gem behind closed doors and flip off the lights, be prepared to be all sorts of impressed with the backlit keys that light up automatically with the onset of night.