Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 is a smartphone, 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 32GB using High Capacity microSD cards, although currently only cards up to 16GB have been released by SanDisk. The phone also features A-GPS for navigation.

The Xperia X1 supports an ‘always on’ 3G broadband Internet connection with high-speed data transfer.
This enables audio and video streaming, Web surfing, multimedia messaging and email.

Connectivity options include:

• 3G broadband
• HSDPA with download transfer rate up to 7.2Mbit/s
• HSUPA with upload transfer rate up to 2.0Mbit/s
• WiFi
• Bluetooth, with a range of 10 meters
• GPRS modem for dial-up Internet
• Synchronization and content sharing with PCs
• USB mass storage
• USB cable support

Xperia X1 features:

• 3.2 MP camera with auto-focus, photo light and video capture
• 3″ touchscreen with a resolution of 800×480 pixels (WVGA)
• 65 thousand color TFT display
• Bluetooth stereo (A2DP)
• Media player
• Music tones
• 3D games
• FM Radio
• Java application support
• Video streaming
• Video viewing
• RSS feeds
• Polyphonic ringtones
• Speakerphone
• XPERIA panels
• Touch Navigation
• aGPS
• WiFi
• 400 MB internal memory
• microSD support
• GSM/GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
• UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA 850/1900/2100 MHz
• Dimensions: 110.0 x 53.0 x 16.7 millimeters; 4.33 x 2.09 x 0.66 inches
• Weight with battery: 158.0 grams; 5.57 ounces