Introduction, package contents
I think this would be the time to write an orotund and majestic introduction, but I somehow can’t do it, although we have seen the evolution of Sony Ericsson’s first Windows Mobile handset from close: early this year we’ve been to Barcelona to the announcement, where such sublime things have been said that for a moment even we have managed to put our skepticism aside. Of course we’re not those types to believe all kinds of marketing bullshit, we’ve been laughing quite a lot about the great, but meaningless sentences they’ve told. So this is how the story of Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 began, at least from our point of view.
The black edition
Of course we should take a closer look in order to completely understand the story. Sony Ericsson and Windows Mobile… why is this so interesting anyway? Well, for example because the Japanese-Swedish manufacturer had an operating system optimized for their own touchscreen, UIQ (based on Symbian), and WM has been one of the greatest rivals of this system. Of course there is no more UIQ and when designing Xperia there has been no Android, so Sony Ericsson didn’t have many choices, but this is still an interesting situation. To top it all, the subject of this review is not even manufactured by Sony Ericsson, but by HTC – yep, the same HTC that didn’t even exist as a separate brand a couple of years ago and now it assembles the top-of-the-line models of renowned manufacturers. I think this fact characterizes the situation of both companies.
The grey variant
X1 came about a week later to our country, although we’ve been highly expecting it, we really did. We’ve been waiting for it so eagerly that we tried to acquire it from any possible source, and so we managed to get two of them within two days, I received an English version from SpeedShop, and my colleague Bog got a German one from XXL GSM. This came out quite well, as on one hand we had a silver and a black edition too, and on the other hand we can both share our experiences and opinions with our readers – I am doing this through this review, while our chief editor inserts some comments in italic, one should be coming up right here. But let’s return to the handset: the box is the usual one from the manufacturer, which is basically okay, but I’ve felt this a bit too modest for such a phone. We also get a charger, a data cable and a high-quality headset whit it – this is not too much.
I have also been highly interested in X1, as it really looked like a unique piece. A Japanese-Swedish handset that has been assembled by a Taiwanese manufacturer and it has an American operating system running on it… what a case. According to some rumors the launch of Xperia has been delayed by a couple of months because the relations between Sony Ericsson and Microsoft haven’t been the best. It might also happen that this is the last Windows-based handset from the manufacturer, but then we have the great question of what kind of operating system will run on Sony Ericsson smartphones. UIQ is finished, Symbian is definitely under Nokia supervision and they are having problems with Microsoft, so we have Android and maybe Linux left. Anyway, it is a strong fact that since February Sony Ericsson didn’t announce a single smartphone… - Bog
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