Check out this rather interesting video of an X1 running Android. It looks pretty sweet although finger navigation doesn’t look too hot, rather the stylus seems to be the order of the day. Check out this thread on XDA Developers for more information on doing this yourself.
Here’s another video of that DoCoMo X10 we posted about earlier today. The clip has no sound unfortunately, but it does again show the ‘whited out’ sensor/camera at the top of the handset and it’s a pretty nice demo of the handset to boot!
The last couple of days have seen something of a flurry of Android news, pretty much all centring around the ‘Google Phone’ or Nexus One to use its proper title. There have already been a few pictures leaked and of course the specs list is pretty much public knowledge, but there are finally some videos of the handset available. From what I’ve seen so far it looks nice, but X10 nice? I’ll still be buying Sony Ericsson …
Having taught us how to make calls on the X10, Sony Ericsson have now put together a couple more tutorials, this time showing messaging and Timescape on the device.
Messaging on the X10:
Timescape:
Things are looking good to me and I’m far from bored of watching stuff about this handset…just let me buy one!!
Mik
You probably didn’t think you needed telling how to make calls but Sony Ericsson thought they’d provide a tutorial anyway. Seeing as we like to see as much as possible regarding the X10’s progress we thought it was worth a look so here you go:
Mik
Our good friend rog has posted a huge preview of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 over at se-first.com.
The preview offers videos of Timescape, Mediascape, e-mail client, browser, messaging and camera application in action as well as a plethora of live images!
Here’s a snippet of the article:
Let’s start with some facts and figures. The X10 sports (among a lot of others) the following main-features:
Android 1.6 (Donut)
WVGA screen (480 x 854)
Scratch resistant, 4 inches, capacitive TFT touchsreen
Size: 119 x 63 x 13 mm, 135 grams
1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 processor
Sony Ericsson Timescape™ & Mediascape™ User Interface2
HSPA
8 Megapixel camera with touchfocus, multipoint-focus, automatic scene detection, smile detection
WVGA video recording
Face recognition on pictures
aGPS
Exchange ActiveSync
3.5mm headset jack, miniUSB connector
1500mAh battery
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Let’s get into details a bit more, our first video gives you some impressions of the Xperia X10’s look, which hopefully gives you some better feeling of the Android device (for best quality, watch it in HD!):
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Next thing: let’s have a look at the newly introduced concept of Timescape™ and Mediascape™, which basically represents Sony Ericsson’s customization of the Android UI.
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What can we say about XPERIA X10 at the current stage? Well… It is definitely fun to use, the huge screen displays every content in a brilliant way, the capacitive screen is responsive, and once the firmware gets into a more final state, the phone for sure will also be more fluent in the usage. A glimps on the power that is hidden under the hood is very noticable already now in the browser, which is ultra-fast.
Sony Ericsson’s approach of including a wide area of social networks and tearing down the borders between those services in such a forceful way is certainly something new in the mobile phone area. A little doubt remains though: will the average (and even the above-average) user really make complete use of all the features that the X10 offers?
The preview is excellent and the phone is looking great, probably the most responsive we’ve seen it performing so far. So head on over to se-first.com to read the full article as well as another two videos and of course loads of live photos.
Cheers rog!
Mik
A nice promotional video from Sony Ericsson here and it shows off the handset a lot more than some other recent promos we’ve seen. The X10 looks rather large to me in this video to be honest but maybe the lady holding it just has small hands….
Mik
Everybody is busy making their own custom UI for Android and not to be outdone by SE’s UX Platform or Motorola’s MOTOBLUR, Samsung have produced TouchWiz which you can expect to see on the Behold II handset.
This is a cube based navigation system, perhaps reminiscent of the Linux cube, but I’ll let you see that for yourself…here’s the vid:
Cheers,
Mik
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