Sony X10

[b4gga83]

My upgrade is due up soon, does anyone have one? What are your thoughts?

[The Ben]

good camera, great screen size, okay touch screen though a bit laggy!

[s.m.h.]

I'd like to know why its nearly 4 months late and only a few ££'s less than the N900. Which was part of the reason I didn't get one down to SE constantly changing the release date. Glad I did, the N900 is spot on for what I need.

[Dakkon]

I pondered hard between this and the Desire, the X10 has a better camera and a slightly bigger screen and more internal memory for storage of aps, the Desire has more ram, a higher OS (Android 2.1) but for me the killer is that the Desire is multi touch and the X10 is not and even if they one day update the OS, it will still never be multi touch.

The other thing that put me off the X10 is that they have added their own features to the Android OS, so to upgrade to 2.1 they need to upgrade their own features as well and this will be true for every other update of Android.

You just know that Google will be churning out new Android OS's relentlessly as they try to muscle more and more into the mobile market and I don't think the X10 will keep up, it is already behind going on sale now.

I have also read that the battery life on the X10 is woeful.

[andyps]

Dakkon said:

I pondered hard between this and the Desire, the X10 has a better camera and a slightly bigger screen and more internal memory for storage of aps, the Desire has more ram, a higher OS (Android 2.1) but for me the killer is that the Desire is multi touch and the X10 is not and even if they one day update the OS, it will still never be multi touch.

The other thing that put me off the X10 is that they have added their own features to the Android OS, so to upgrade to 2.1 they need to upgrade their own features as well and this will be true for every other update of Android.

You just know that Google will be churning out new Android OS's relentlessly as they try to muscle more and more into the mobile market and I don't think the X10 will keep up, it is already behind going on sale now.

I have also read that the battery life on the X10 is woeful.

You have outlined my thoughts on the X10 well, except that I went for a Nexus One as the Desire has HTC features on Android 2.1 so when Google update Android HTC will have to update their own features before they will be able to offer it. The fact they were already on 2.1 rather than 1.6 for SE with the X10 did SE no favours for me.

I did have a play with an X10 to see what it was like, the screen is great, camera has some nice features and the timescape is good if you are heavily into facebook and things, but having played with it I didn't think I had made the wrong decision through impatience and am quite happy with my Nexus. Had I waited, maybe the X10 camera would have swung it as I do miss the extras.

[bodhi]

s.m.h. said:

I'd like to know why its nearly 4 months late and only a few ££'s less than the N900. Which was part of the reason I didn't get one down to SE constantly changing the release date. Glad I did, the N900 is spot on for what I need.

SE initially quoted it would be out in Q1/Q2 of 2010, which it was? How was it 4 months late?

I'm kind of wishing I hadn't jumped the gun and got a Satio and waited for the X10 instead. Nothing wrong with the Satio, just the X10 does everything I'm after, and the one I had a tinker with was a joy to use. The Satio is a more than adequate phone instead however, had it 4 months, no issues yet.

[s.m.h.]

X10 was on Vodafones site in November/ early December as coming soon - even before they had the N900 on there. My BB deal ran out in October and I waited to see what came out and left it till Feb before buying anything.