The folks at Boy Genius Report have managed to get their hands on the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1.  So what’s their verdict?  Right from the 800×480 VGA screen, optical joystick, speedy HSDPA , the device impresses, and  you really can’t throw any more specs in! With looks to die for, its not surprising that the X1 is the  #1 Windows Mobile device people are waiting for.  Their Sony Ericsson X1 gallery doesn’t have any shots of the Panel interface, so for now you’ll have to make do with some shots of the nice looking exteriors of the device.

Xperia X1 gallery

Five days ago, Sony Ericsson published the second, revised version of the X1 whitepaper.

As always, there’ll be a few moments of pure druelling and awe, but once that’s over, some people might notice a few changes. One of the changes is that the X1 now comes with 256 megabytes of RAM memory compared to 128 megabytes in the release version. This is major! This basically means that the X1 will be a lot faster, and its multitasking abilities will be greatly enhanced by this.

Another thing I noticed was some amazing battery life times. In standby, Sony Ericsson had measured standby times up to 580 hours on GSM networks, while the X1 came up to an amazing 833 hours of standby on UMTS. Wow! It’s impressive what a 1500 mAh battery can do for a phone.

Via: Esato

WM Experts is an interesting site, and they sure do know about the stuff they write about. A short while ago, they published a preview of the XPERIA X1, and it looks like they are extremely impressed;

Overall this might be the best hardware I’ve ever seen on a Windows Mobile device. [...] The screen. Good god, the screen is really beautiful. Flush, bright, and very high resolution. [...] So yes, the hardware delivers. [...] They are [the specifications], in short, nothing less than top of the line.

That sounds bloody excellent, don’t you think? Do me and yourself a favour and check out the highly positive preview of the X1 over at WM Experts.

Well, I already told you about what was going to happen at CTIA yesterday regarding the XPERIA X1 and the “mysterious” Windows Mobile 6 operating system, that Sony Ericsson continously denied talking about, and got referred to as “Windows Mobile 6… err.. 6″. Now it has finally been officially announced that it will indeed be making use of the Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system.

I guess we can expect the reviews to start rolling in quite slowly now… Release is still set to 2nd half 2008.

You might also be interested to check out our galleries where we have several photo albums with high quality photos of this beautiful device.

Numerous unannounced devices have been rumoured to be announced today. However, today will apparently not be a day of announcements (unless Sony Ericsson pulls “a T68″ like back in the Ericsson days?). It will only be about some further details on the XPERIA X1 Windows Mobile based smart phone. Will Sony Ericsson finally admit that it uses Windows Mobile 6.1 and thereby let people try it out? Only time can tell…

Update! This will be about Windows Mobile 6.1 in X1.

Something seems to have happened as Sony Ericsson today removed the Windows short cut key on the front of the X1 photos. If you compare photos of the phone before and the phone photos today, you’ll notice that the key is now blank. Check the detail here:

It seems like all photos with the exception of the press photos have been edited. I’ll try to get a comment on this. Check out the XPERIA mini-site to see for yourself!

Via: SEMC Blog

Lately there have been some rumours about the release date of X1. It was said that it supposedly won’t see the light of the day till some time in February 2009. I’ve told many people otherwise and I have now fetched an official statement regarding the X1 and its release.

- I can confirm that we will be launching the X1 product in 2nd Half of 2008, as per our announcement of 10th February that we made in Barcelona, said Aldo Liguori, who is the Corporate Vice President of the Global Communications and PR department at Sony Ericsson.

So, there you have it. The only reason for the mysterious “10th of February release” is the fact that Sony Ericsson (or should I say Microsoft) has yet to decide on when to publicly announce the operating system and technical specifications of the X1, and thereby also a precise release date.