The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 was a surprise, I’d heard good things and was expecting to be impressed, but I wasn’t quite expecting it to knock my socks off – which it did. Despite a few niggles, it was a great phone to use, and having given it to various friends to gauge a wider opinion, general consensus agreed – it rocked!
At first I was slightly apprehensive, though I liked the design, I was a bit unsure on the size as it’s a bit bigger than most others on the market. I shouldn’t have worried though, its size gives it a durability that many other smartphones lack and the design focused on the amazing screen the size and clarity of which made it a pleasure to browse. In addition was the speed factor; there was little, if any, delay when looking at online sites, as well as switching between applications.
As always, ease of use is a big factor, and whilst the phone interface is very different to others, everything made sense and was where you’d expect it to be, making it easy to navigate though it did take me a day to figure out I needed to pull up the arrow on the screen for the main menu to appear! None of my friends had that problem though….
Alongside all these positives, the phone has a great camera (an incredible 8.1 megapixels!), an MP3 with a proper headphone jack and an 8GB Micro SD card, so if you wanted, it could easily become your one stop shop for emails, music, video, social networking, and of course making calls. It’s even USB compatible, meaning you can charge just by hooking it up to your laptop so you don’t need to worry about forgetting your charger anymore!
Though I was impressed with all these things and they combine to produce an amazing piece of kit, the real selling point for me was the touchscreen. I currently have a touchscreen phone, and a Blackberry, and I much prefer the latter thanks in main to the qwerty keyboard. Before now I had found touchscreens unresponsive and difficult to type on, and as someone who is constantly emailing that was a big no-no. But, the Sony Ericsson Xperia changed all this – typing on it was a breeze; the screen was immediately responsive, and it didn’t slow me down at all.
If you use your phone for everything – from making phone calls to Facebooking, then this is the one for you. It offers everything you could need in a neat little package – the funky design making it even more covetable. I have a feeling there’s a few friends who will be upgrading to this when they can – and I’ll tell them what I tell you all now, go for it – but just make sure you get a cover, the screen is impressive, but throw it in your handbag and you’re likely to pull it out scratched!
