Welcome The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini
It's not uncommon for mobile phone makers to come out with special lite or mini versions of handsets that enjoyed some success in their markets. This is done to extend the success to a wider market as a lite or mini version is often more affordable with a reduced set of features.
This time, you have Sony Ericsson announcing a couple of Xperia X10 derivatives during the recently concluded 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. These are the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini and a QWERTY slider Mini Pro using the same Android 1.6 Cupcake OS with the Rachel/UX (User eXperience) user interface.
Sony is hoping to cash in on the market anticipation and excitement of the announced Xperia line and has jumped the gun, so to speak, with a lighter, smaller and presumably more affordable X10 smartphones even before the X10 has proven any level of commercial success.
There's nothing new in the in the handsets other than their miniature shadows of the mighty X10 out this April from Vodafone UK and in Germany via T-Mobile as advertised on the Vodafone website. And since the two new Mini versions will be out in the 2nd quarter, we won't be surprised if they become available all at the same time.
Superb Features
At first glance, the Mini is a fairly attractive touchscreen monolith measuring 83 x 50 x 16 mm and weighing a remarkably light 88 g to make it one of the lightest touchscreen smartphones todate.
Don't look at Daddy Xperia X10 as you're sure to be disappointed with its inferior feature set that's understandable for a lite or mini version. But on its own, it's a fairly competitive smartphone on a rather dated OS.
When it finally arrives, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini is expected to come in six different colors to choose from – black, pearl white, pink, red, silver and lime.
- For starters, you won't get the 1 GHz Snapdragon processor of the X10 as that would be overkill for a minimized feature set. You get a less powerful Qualcomm MSM7227 processor clocked at 600 MHz.
- The Mini is your standard quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE phone on the 2G network as well as a 3G phone on the dual band UMTS with HSDAP/HSUPA. You get WiFi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and microUSB 2.0 to support its local data connectivity options. There's also SatNav functionality with a built-in A-GPS receiver with Google Maps.
- Its display is typical for its body size with a 2.5-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen display that features a QVGA resolution and 16 million colors. It comes with the usual gravity accelerometer for auto rotate viewing and a scratch resistant glass cover.
- For imaging, Sony pared down the 8 megapixel camera on the X10 to a 5 megapixel snapper with the same autofocus camera, LED Flash, face/smile detection and geo tagging features. Video recording details are scant other than having a video light.
128 MB is all you get for its internal memory but there's a microSD expandability of up to 16 GB. You also get a standard lithium polymer battery the delivers a talk time of up to 4 hours and a standby time of up to 285 hours when charged to the max.
Questions and Answers
How easy it is for Sony to bring the lofty and mighty to the ground is well exemplified in minimizing the superlatives of the X10 into its Mini version that should arrive in the 2nd quarter of the year. One wonders if there'd be enough market left for another average looking and average featured Android handset when most X10 fans will have saved enough to get the real thing which is now being offered free at T-Mobile for a 2-year Pay Monthly plan of just ₤35/month.
The World's 4th and tumbling to the 5th mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson seems to be riding on the worldwide excitement generated by its very first Android smartphone announced last November, the XPERIA X10. It still hasn't hit the markets and we hear it will up for grabs on April under a Vodafone UK contract but at the recent 2010 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the struggling company released a couple of inferior derivatives.
Riding high on the crest of its X10 popularity that just got released as its first ever Android smartphone, the 4th largest mobile phone maker will be releasing in the 2nd quarter of the year a minimized version in the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini. It has been announced in February at the Mobile World Congress held in Barcelona and if it doesn't inherit the company's penchant for delayed releases as it should make landfall anytime soon.
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