Here it is, folks. Sony Ericsson's
newly official XPERIA X2 in the flesh. It's got a flashy (gimmicky?) home screen, along with a view for "snacking" on bubbled-up information. Lots of buzzwords, but we'll need more time hands-on to know how we feel. The hardware? It's still a heavy beast, but perhaps just a bit more loving in this incarnation. We don't love the resistive touchscreen one bit. After a strong caveat that what we're looking at is preproduction software, a Sony Ericsson rep admitted that Windows Mobile 6.5 isn't all it could be -- though we're unsure why Sony Ericsson didn't throw a bit more hardware at the problem,
Toshiba style. Still, the interface breaks down to stylus-friendly Windows Mobile-isms with just a few taps, and none of the "wow" of the floating Sony Ericsson home screen seemed to excuse any of the UI lag it introduces. Again, early software, but the X1
didn't exactly rise above its preproduction jankiness.
Update: Video is after the break!
posted Sep 2nd 2009 1:20PM
I'm not interested. Resistive screen with Winmo 6.5? Really? I'm bored! Lets see some X3 action!
Keyboard is interesting, otherwise it looks like a hunk of junk.
Qualcomm hardware will always lag! Where have you guys been.
wow, looks sexy, I'd buy it.
Who decided to make that homescreen take so long to rotate? It's just ridiculous.
I'll stick with my P1i
When will these stupid developers learn?! If you want to put a cool, rotating, moving, 3D, Icon-driven UI on the phone, you MUST have 3D acceleration hardware!! Anyone else look at this screen in the video and think it could be really damn cool if it didn't chug along like an old lady in a Buick?? I mean, really- throw in a Snapdragon or Tegra chip, a faster processor, and be done with it! Same goes for HTC as well- I remember when TouchFlo first came out, it wasn't exactly snappy on most US phones. Sure, it wasn't terrible, but still. If you guys want to compete with the iPhone, you'll have to step up your game. And no, I'm not an Apple fan boy. I've had all kinds of WinMo devices, and I have an iPhone. I loved the WinMo customizability, but love the Apple interface. Give me something that is as smooth and slick as the iPhone's interface with all of the options and openness of WinMo, and I'll be happy.
damn, it looks slow. though like the addtl panelization options that come with the new SDK (from se developer world) so after iphone opens up for flash, se phones will support too. and yeah, WinMo customizablity is f**ng great!!!! I`d be up for this one I guess, even though its not as fast as other ones might be.