Take this with a bit of salt for the moment, but during a rather interesting conversation earlier today I was reliably informed that a side effect of the delay in launching the X10 would be that it would ship with Android 2.0. The original announcement set the handset’s OS as Android 1.6 of course and there were some who lamented the lack of the newer 2.0 as seen in devices like Motorola’s Droid/Milestone. Sony Ericsson quickly responded by saying that an upgrade to 2.0 (and multi-touch) would take place, but didn’t give any timescale. If this information proves correct then it would mean the X10 starts life on a more even keel with other Android handsets and perhaps more importantly would end speculation over when (and if) it would receive the 2.0 update.

It’s not just the X10 that’s about to be released of course, Kurara is almost upon us too! In fact I was told to expect it in week nine or in other words the first week of March. Whether that means Kanna will be released at the same time or not wasn’t mentioned. Interestingly enough though, well interesting if you live in the UK anyway, it looks like 3 have definitely signed up to stock Kurara. As for the X10 T-Mobile will apparently stock the handset, which is a little surprising given that they have had a somewhat troubled relationship with high-end handsets of late. There was no mention of exactly what other networks would stock the X10, but contract pricing was said to be ‘reasonsble’, somewhere in the £35/month range.