Sony Ericsson's Android-powered XPERIA X3 sorta confirmed by way of retailer

We don't take the word of just any retailer at face value, but when a big player like eXpansys decides that it's time to list a new phone in its inventory, that usually means something's afoot. The company's British outpost has now listed full details for a phone it's identifying simply as "Xperia" in its headline, but if you read further in, you'll see that the product code is "SEMXP3_BLK_UK", suggesting X3 is the likely moniker for Rachael. For your hard-earned (but yet-to-be-determined) money, you'll get pretty much everything you could possibly want, spec-wise: 10Mbps HSDPA and 2Mbps HSUPA, 8 megapixel cam with image stabilization and LED flash, 3.5mm headphone jack, a 4-inch 800 x 400 display (a first at this resolution for a production Android device), AGPS, and microSDHC expansion. Sadly, it's listed as 900 / 2100 only for the 3G radio, so we'll need to rely on the telecommunication gods (and Sony Ericsson, we suppose) to deliver a North American version as well.

[Via Slashgear and the::unwired]

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 21st 2009 1:27PM]

You are the best now Sony Ericsson, announce these phones as soon as possible, to beat Nokia!!!!! Sony Ericsson 4ever!!!!!!!!!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 21st 2009 1:32PM]

Sony can announce phones all they want. Sony's problem has never been announcing phones. When they start releasing some of them then we'll see.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 4:39AM]

People in these comments need to stop talking about SE phones as Sony phones, it's 50% 50% between Sony and Ericsson. Sony has never been big in the phone making buisness but Ericsson has (larger then Nokia)

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 21st 2009 2:14PM]

The X2 will be available in November, and this in Januarry, or Februarry.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 21st 2009 2:18PM]

Actually how can reply somebody, plz tell me to know, coz here I can't find the reply...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 21st 2009 2:21PM]

everything you could possibly want except a keyboard :-(

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 2:56AM]

But then it would be fatty fat. I dont know. Maybe the screen is big enough to live without a hardware keyboard...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 22nd 2009 3:27AM]

Not everything as the x3 doesn't feature :
- quad band 3G (only dual band 900/2100 = annoying when you travel however there's always wifi) but it may be only that uk version as pda.net lists umts 1900 ?
http://pdadb.net/index.php?m=specs&id=1967
- a search button: google changed the google experience terms when htc released the magic; as the x3 only has the menu / home / back buttons, it shouldn't be a google experience phone, therefore wouldn't support upgrade through the air, we may have to plug the usb cable to the computer.
- an amoled screen :>
- a keyboard to play games !

And what about this 800x400 screen resolution ? this may be a typo, i hope it is 800x450 so to have a perfect 16/9 screen ratio for videos

Otherwise i find this to be the most desirable android handset yet with its modded UI assembling all the social networks updates under one contact name.

Questions remain : when and how much ?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 24th 2009 1:48PM]

The phone has already gone MIA from expansys' web site. If you follow the link above to expansys, you get a friendly missing product message, and searching on the site doesn't help either.