Smart Phones of today

There are lot phones that hit the market every year but only a few make their way to be successful, some phones create a lot of hype in the market even before the release and achieve tremendous success in the market, one such phone is the Sony Ericson’s Xperia X1. This phone has made a lot of buzz about it all over the globe.

Sony Ericcson Xperia X1 is a Windows based Smartphone that has got the attention of Gadget Lovers. This phone is currently available in the USA and soon to be released all around the globe. The Xperia X1 will certainly make Apple Iphone and HTC touch pro run for their money, though the X1 is priced luxuriously.

Specifications

Sony Xperia comes preloaded with Window Mobile professional 6.1 (which is a bit buggy). It has a 3 Inch TFT LCD touch screen with a screen resolution of 800X480 and 65,536 colors, Xperia weighs about 158 grams and it has 400 Mb inbuilt memory, and expandable memory with Micro SD Memory Cards. It has a talk time upto 10 hours, standby time upto 500 hours and video call upto 3 hours.

Design & Looks

Sony Ericcson has put a lot of effort on the looks and design and its efforts haven’t gone in vain. The innovation is seen in the perfection, giving this phone a stunning look and design, which can be rated among the best phones of sony Ericcson in the smart phone Category. It is a a four-directional navigation control with a press function and optical joystick navigation, using which you can brush your finger over the navigation key to move the pointer on screen. The slide out QWERTY physical keyboard which is beneath the phone making typing Emails and other messages simple and easy. [This will lead the phone to be used in landscape mode more often]. This phone is a bit thicker than the iphone.

Camera, Music and Entertainment

Sony Xperia comes with 3.2 MegaPixel Camera with auto focus and digital Zoom upto 3X. Another good feature in this phone is the “photo light feature”, which allows you to take clear pictures even during bad light conditions. There is also a touch auto foucs tool, which enables to set the focus to get the best picture. It supports Video recording too. It has Windows Media® Player Mobile, Music tones and sony Ericson Trademark music features like Bluetooth stereo and PlayNow and also supports 3d games and Java allowing to add more interactive games and application to your smartphone. There is also a built in FM radio, and X1 has a standard audio jack. The 3.0″ screen does good justice to output the best clarity, to view Divx movies.

Sony Ericcson X1 panels

You do not access the same applications, when you are work and when you are at home. Sony Ericcson panels comes to this rescue. You can add as many panels as you want, and each panel is customizable with your applications, and even has desktop like alerts like message alerts, calendar appointments and much more. You can also download panels from other websites. A few users are however not pleased with the user interface and are displeased with the buggy windows applications and poor user interface.

Business and Connectivity

Sony X1 is loaded with very good features, which a high end business users would expect. You can access your email, calendar and tasks, on the go. You can also view and edit documents such as Microsoft word, excel, PowerPoint and Adobe PDF files. Taking the business experience to the next level, X1 also allows you to sync your phone with your PC in a easy fashion. With a large screen, viewing documents is quite easy and the menus are very similar to that of the PC, and allows you to add your most accessed features in the “quick links”. Threaded SMS gives you a ichat like experience and is boosted with powerful search features. Like you would expect, X1 supports multiple inboxes and attachments too. With X1, you can connect to the intenet using turbo 3G or use wifi, if you are in a hotspot. Email search is powered by google, so you can search your emails in a flash.

Security

Assuming your X1 gets stolen, you can have your phone locked and even delete sensitive information remotly. This gives business users the confidence, that no other mobile has provided yet.

Sony Ericcson X1 keyboard

Typing emails in the X1 is very easy with the QWERTY physical keyboard. While a virtual keyboard could save space, this QWERTY keyboard cleanly docks itself under the phone and comes into play, only when required. There is also a effective cut, copy and paste in sony Ericcson X1, making it easier for quick editing. If you are not a big fan of the QWERT keyboard, there is also a virtual keyboard at your disposal.
Assisted GPS with Google Maps

With turbo 3G, downloading maps is pretty quick. The advanced GPS locates you and can guides you to your desired locations, at a touch of a button.

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It’s no mystery that Palm hasn’t been on the top of most mobile phone shoppers even though they have consistently produced some decent handsets in recent years. The fact that their phones were a bit boring in appearance was reason enough that there was never much buzz about their newest phones, until now. At the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, Palm introduced their entry into the touchscreen handset market with quite some fanfare. But will it be enough to change this company’s future as a player in mobile phones?

To look at the Pre’s specs you’ll see that it comes with some pretty impressive features. It doesn’t have the largest screen when it comes to mobile phones, but at 3.1 inches it’s adequately large as well as bright and clear. For those that are heavily into texting, you’ll like the fact that it does have a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, so you can be all thumbs without being ‘all-thumbs’. Yes, this is a 3G phone that also has Wi-Fi capabilities as well as TeleNav GPS, and to make this phone a contender in this ever-expanding phone category, it was needed.

Currently the Pre is reported to only come in a one size model, 8GB which is not bad, but other phones on the market already offer more storage. As well, it can not accommodate expandable memory either, which seems to be a bit of a non-starter for some people. On the upside the Pre does have a 3MP camera as well as stereo Bluetooth connectivity. We can pretty much expect that it does have a music player, but there’s no word on an FM tuner or satellite radio support. If it’s entertainment features are as good as we hope, then this will be a popular phone to have.

Overall the Palm Pre is a really sleek-looking phone with plenty of features to like, but we’ll have to see what the customers will have to say about when it comes to market sometime in the first half of this year. The Palm Pre will be available through Sprint with a contract of course, but with Sprint’s flat-rate monthly fee you won’t get any unsuspectingly large bills. So, for now Palm is grooving on the buzz that this phone is producing, and we hope that this is just the beginning.

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