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

A recent Handango newsletter made mention of the fact that the Sony Ericsson X1 will launch with Handango’s InHand service pre-installed. Whilst that is interesting news in its own right the newsletter also mentioned that the X1 would launch in mid-September.

Handango via Engadgetmobile & MoDaCo

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.

This year’s CeBIT trade fair has just closed down after a week of visitors and interesting products. Sony Ericsson was of course present and a couple of the German blog writers had a look at Sony Ericsson’s booth and new products. We’ve collected a large gallery for you, hope you enjoy