Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 review

Granted, Timescape is good as a quick reference tool. For instance, simply glancing at it will tell you what is going on in the world of social networking and, if not, you can flick through it leaf-by-leaf until you find what you’re looking for – and all without any lag we might add. However, it’s not a patch on Friend Stream.

The Timescape home screen widget displays a picture of your contact with the text, or status, displayed on top of it – a social networking leaf. Yes, Timescape may do what it sets out to do, which is to pull info from Twitter and Facebook, but it just doesn’t look very good, and this is a problem for us – basically, it just looks a bit cheap.  

Typing is a relatively pleasant experience on the Xperia X10, whether you’re doing email or a quick text. The Xperia X10’s virtual keyboard is responsive and, thanks to the massive Snapdragon processor, very snappy, – we didn’t experience any lag whatsoever – which is something of a rarity on Android devices.

Browsing the web is, again, a very nice experience, which is largely thanks to the Xperia X10’s huge TFT capacitive touchscreen.

Videos are also displayed in crisp colour and at a size that you can actually watch – we were quite surprised by how engrossed we became viewing videos on the Xperia X10. Big screens make a big difference.

The camera function is also superb on the Xperia X10 as well. In fact, it’s probably one of its strongest point. The Xperia X10’s 8 megapixel camera shoots at a resolution of 3264x2448 pixels and has a whole host of cool features, such as touch focus, image stabilisation, geo-tagging, face and smile detection, as well as auto-focus and LED flash

Mediascape attempts to do the same thing that Timescape does – just with music and pictures. And in some ways, it actually does a good job. For starters, it looks a lot better than Timescape and is actually quite useful for when you want to find a track, a picture or both at the same time – although, it’s hardly a strong enough stand-alone-feature to sell a device on.

On paper, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 looks like a safe bet, it’s got a massive 1GHz Snapdragon processor, it’s Android-powered, has an 8-megapixel camera and all the connectivity you could possibly ever require – 2G, 3G, Wi-Fi, Edge etc.

However, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 isn’t a safe bet – it’s a dud.

The device itself is very disappointing and lacks any sort of ambition.

That said, if it came out in 2008 it would be a very different story – sadly though, it’s not 2008 and quite a bit has happened since then. Maybe someone should tell Sony Ericsson. 

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