The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Android phone is real. After months of leaks, it’s finally broken cover officially, and while Sony Ericsson did a better job than most of keeping the name under wraps, the Google phone formerly known as the X3 is now out of the gates, with that gorgeous new UI in tow. Want to know exactly what it does? Read on for the deets.

On the hardware front, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is pretty much the phone we’ve seen leaked for months. It’s got a 4-inch, capacitive touchscreen, eight megapixel camera, a superfast 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 3G and Wi-Fi, plus a microSD slot. Up close, it’s a gorgeous slab, if not quite as skinny as the HTC HD2.

The skin (codenamed Rachael, but nameless at the time of our briefing due to legal reasons and due diligence checking) for the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 focuses around two signature applications, Timescape, and Mediascape. The former works like Motorola’s Motoblur, pulling in emails, texts, Facebook and Twitter into a reverse chronological stream. Touch a contact’s profile picture within it, and you can pull up all the relevant information around them. Messages, numbers, it’s all here. It’ll even drag in photos of them.

Mediascape on the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 works just as we saw in the teaser video yesterday, aggregating your own music as well as recommendations from the PlayNow service (Sony Ericsson says mobile networks’ own music stores can plug themselves in here too, if they like).

There are a couple of truly classy touches in Mediascape too: pressing the “Infinite” button on the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 while listening to music pulls up Youtube content related to the artist you’re listening to, while Sony Ericsson has also included face tagging, so you can shoot photos of someone once, and they’ll be automatically tagged in the future.

Sony Ericsson’s head of portfolio planning, Steve Walker, told us that this is just the start, and that in future we’ll see closer integration with other Sony products, though he wouldn’t comment as to whether the PS3 was a possibility, via Remote Play like the Sony Ericsson Aino.

Are there any downers to the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10? A few: it’s only running Android 1.6 rather than 2.0, although Sony Ericsson says it will move to tasty Android 2.0 “in time”, and there’s no multitouch for pinch zooming. Otherwise though, it’s shaping up to be a stonking phone, and more than a worthy entry into the world of Android for Sony Ericsson.

The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 will be on sale in the first quarter of 2010, with network carriers still to be confirmed.

Computerworld - Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB's first Windows Mobile device, to appear in the second half of 2008, will be called Xperia X1, the company said today.

An arc slider device that will draw obvious touch-screen comparisons to Apple Inc.'s iPhone, the new X1 will also have a full QWERTY keyboard.Its Speed also very fast.

Sony Ericsson made the announcement at Mobile World Congress 2008 in Barcelona, Spain. The company also announced two new additions to its Cyber-shot line of phones. Sony Ericsson sold more than 100 million handsets in 2007.

Xperia is the first brand to come completely from within Sony Ericcson, which is a joint venture of Sony Corp. and LM Ericsson Telephone Co. that was formed in 2001, according to the company.

It will support the HSDPA/HSUPA and Wi-Fi standards, as well as slower GSM and EDGE networks.

A 3.2-megapixel camera and features of Windows Mobile are included, such as Outlook Mobile for e-mail and Office Mobile for Word, Excel, PowerPoint andInternet Explorer Mobile.

Jack Gold, an analyst at J. Gold Associates, said the X1 announcement is "interesting" because it will extends Microsoft's presence in Europe and because it indicates that Sony Ericsson may not want to stick with its own user interface known as UIQ, which runs on top of the Symbian operating sytem.

"This may be a trial balloon by Sony Ericsson to see if the Windows Mobile path is a way for it to exit the UIQ," he said. He suggested it might be a step toward Sony Ericsson's showing an Android-based device soon. Android is the mobiles platform from Google Inc.

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Android Gingerbread 2.3.3 update for Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 has been released. The end users can downloadthe latest update from the official online source or seek instructions in case they are apprehensive. The new OS stands to offer better battery optimization needs and can also help users in leveraging from the better user interface options too. The new Gingerbread update from Sony Ericsson has taken its time in being released especially considering that Samsung was up to the task when it came for the release of the nee Android OS on their platform. The Xperia X10 handset has won accolades amongst the users for its streamlines performance along with enriching user interface options.

The gaming options too are supreme over the platform and users are expected to cherish the new improved O.S on the device. The update is being offered to the global consumer base unlike Samsung whose Gingerbreadd updates are being rolled out in UK region first and the rest to-be followed. The users who are unsure of upgrading their OS to Gingerbread should essentially look to seek professional help at all times. The dedicated solutions can help one and all in leveraging from the streamlined information at all times.