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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1

The Xperia X1 is a smartphone from Sony Ericsson, built by High Tech Computer Corporation, and is the first in the manufacturer’s Xperia series. The X1 was first presented at the 2008 Mobile World Congress

The X1 is an arc-slider phone with the Windows Mobile 6.1 Operating System. It is Sony Ericsson’s first mobile phone to feature Windows Mobile. Device also has Java virtual machine (JBed) and supports JavaME that is
claimed to have richer set of features than typically available..

The phone features a three-inch touchscreen overlaying a QWERTY keypad which emerges when the user slides the touchscreen face upward, much as in the HTC TyTN II, although the X1’s touchscreen slides out in an arc. Its touchscreen is a 65,536-color TFT WVGA display. It has a 3.2 megapixel digital camera which records video at thirty frames per second in VGA (640×480) quality.

There is also a secondary front facing camera for videoconferencing that is of QCIF format. Connectivity options for the phone include: mini-USB; wireless LAN 802.11b/g; Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, FTP, and HID; EDGE; and
quad-band GSM, UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, and HSCSD. The X1 has 512MB of internal memory (400MB free), which is expandable to 32 gigabytes using High Capacity microSD cards, although currently only cards up to 16
gigabytes have been released by SanDisk. The phone also features A-GPS for navigation.
The X1 ships with Opera Mobile pre-installed. This phone also is able to use the GSM network feature Alternate line service. Standard features on the X1 include push email, an RSS feed aggregator, and handwriting recognition.
The device is powered by Qualcomm’s ARM 11 MSM7200A CPU, which runs at 528 MHz. The device’s memory is 384MB RAM.
Specifiactions:
General
2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network: HSDPA 850 / 1900 / 2100
Announced: 2008, February
Status: Available. Released 2008, October
Size
Dimensions: 110.5 x 52.6 x 17 mm
Weight: 145 g
Display
Type: TFT touchscreen, 65K colors
Size: 800 x 480 pixels, 3.0 inches
- Full QWERTY keyboard
- Optical trackpad
Ringtones
Type: Polyphonic, MP3
Customization: Composer, download
Vibration: Yes
Memory
Phonebook: Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
Call records: Practically unlimited
Card slot: microSD (TransFlash), buy memory
- 400 MB internal memory
- 256 MB RAM, 512 MB storage memory
- Qualcomm MSM7200 528MHz processor
Data
GPRS: Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
HSCSD: No
EDGE: Yes
3G: HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps
WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
Bluetooth: Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared port: No
USB: Yes, v2.0 miniUSB
Features
OS: Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
Messaging: SMS, MMS, Email, Push email, IM
Browser: WAP 2.0/HTML (IE), RSS feeds
Games: Yes + downloadable
Colors: Solid Black, Steel Silver
Camera: 3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels, autofocus, video(VGA@30fps), flash; secondary videocall camera
- Built-in GPS receiver
- A-GPS function
- Java MIDP 2.0
- FM radio with RDS
- MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player
- 3.5 mm audio jack
- Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer)
- TrackID music recognition
- Picture editor/blogging
- Organiser
- T9
- Built-in handsfree
- Voice memo/dial
Battery
Standard battery: Li-Po 1500 mAh (BST-41)
Stand-by: Up to 833 h
Talk time: Up to 10 h
Price: BDT 35,000