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Rikard Skogberg at the Sony Ericsson Product Blog today confirmed  that the Sony Ericsson X10 will receive a Gingerbread update . The update will be available in the end of Q2 / early Q3 this year. Only X10 will receive the 2.3 update, not minis or X8.

However the X10 will loose some features like the following:

• The current plan is that the Xperia^TM X10 will get the Android standard Camera user interface and therefore features like e.g. face recognition, smile shutter etc will be lost.
• Moxier is replaced by the gingerbread native EAS functionality.
• Mediascape is being replaced by the media experience widgets and music player included in our new 2011 products.
• DRM keys for protected content on your phone will be lost in the upgrade process.
• The Sony Ericsson Backup and Restore client is not supported in the Gingerbread version and will therefore be lost.
• Support for bi-directional languages will be reduced compared to the latest version of the 2.1 version of the Xperia^TM X10.

Seems as X10 will get most of the new Xperia Arc stuff to.

Source:

http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/products/2011/03/25/update-on-xperia%E2%84%A2-x10/

Yesterday (10th March) Sony Ericsson registred 2 new firmwares for the X10i at PTCRB.

The firmwares are known as 2.1.A.0.454 and 2.1.1.A.0.19.

As for now we have no info on what’s new in these firmwares or when they’ll be released for public.

More info here:

http://www.ptcrb.com/ctiastaff/complete/view_complete_request.cfm?modelid=16755

The famous hacker George Hotz (a.k.a GeoHot) confirms in this video that he has bought a Sony Ericsson X10 to watch over the security. Great news for the X10 users if bootloader gets cracked.  If you don’t want to see the whole interview watch from 4 mins in the video.