Your Sony Ericsson X10 questions and requests
It’s that time again, folks. if you have a question about the X10 that you want answered on video, or want me to demonstrate it doing something specific (i.e., bog it down, watch videos, play a certain game), @reply me on Twitter: PhoneDog_John; or send a text message to 503-MOB-BARK. That’s for text messages only; calls and voice mails will be disregarded. Also, be sure to include the phrase “X10″ in your message, or I probably won’t get to it.
I’m getting more questions and requests for these than I used to, which is great. But as a result, I probably won’t be able to hit them all. I will address the most common messages though, and will cover as many of the others as I can manage.
Part 1: Display, screen sensitivity, responsiveness, and typing. I realize I’m comparing this thing to what I consider to be the best phone available, but that’s what you asked for!
NIce Part 1 review. One item to note from what I've read is that the 65K color screen is a limitation of Android 1.6 and not the hardware itself. Admittedly not something everyone would recognize in doing a comparison, but something to note.
It's interesting to hear about the keyboard. Have you tried additional tests with a different keyboard on the X10? Is the one you were using on the Nexus One available or was it preinstalled by HTC/Google specifically for that phone?
Thanks for the post!
For future reference the gradient issue is called “banding”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_banding
Thanks, Greg. You got me comparing a bunch of spec pages and I found one that indicates 262k colors. I also put a note in the video. I appreciate the help.
Yes, I tried other keyboards and found improvement, but still had problems compared to using the same keyboards on another phone (Nexus One). The one I use on the N1 in the video is the Sense keyboard. I have not tried that one on the X10.
What I really dislike about the changes they made to the homescreen is the app-drawer. I’ve seen plenty of hands-on videos of the X10 now and EVERYBODY who is trying to close the drawer is pulling down the notification bar. That would so go on my nerves as it does already when I see it happen to somebody else.
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You're right, John…On camera the X10's screen makes the N1 look dull. How much of a difference is this in person?
The elephant in the room for all these devices is battery life. I read somewhere the X10 has a different battery type that should last longer. Would like to know if it's true as my current Android's short battery life is driving me crazy.
Other than that, a main reason to get this device is it's camera.. Can we have some low light tests please? Typical outdoor night, macro, pub shots, without flash, compared to the iPhone, which doesn't have flash but has good low light capabilities, better than N1.
For keyboard, with such a large screen I'd like to see an easier way to access numeric/punctuation/symbol characters.
Tweeted these also. Thanks!
Yeah, even after making a conscious effort to be aware of it, I still do it all the time.
In person, I felt like the N1's display looked much better. I need to do more tests, but as I said, it doesn't come out the same on camera. I'll do some outdoor video in direct sunlight.
I like the comparison on keyboards that you did, and must agree that the HTC long press concept works way better. In order to judge the responsiveness of the screens, it would have been better to take the keyboard out of the equation and use the HTC keyboard on both screens. Great series though, thx alot!
Just want to emphasize in case this is seen.. there is no comparison when it comes to photo quality between the N1 and X10. Take a look at the pictures near the end of http://www.swedroid.se/test-av-sony-ericsson-xp… . The N1's pics are bad, the X10's are better. is it simply processing or is it hardware quality? It is really too bad so many sites gloss over the actual realization of simplistic stats. They are doing a big disservice to the Android community because the iPhone's photo capabilities under different light conditions are still generally better, and only a critical feature by feature review will change this.
“X10″ want to ask about the MT why now they sed there will be not any MT and about the speakers a the 2 stereo speakers or 1 mono
I got this phone last week but I am so disappointed with it.
It advertised to have the best camera among the Android phones on the market so far, but the camera application with the phone is soooooo bad.
First, you took a photo and you would like to see whether it is good or not, but when you enlarge it, no matter what it is blur. Seems the photos cannot refine themselves. So, it is really difficult to see whether it is really blur because of shaking of the camera or it is OK.
Second, you cannot use the LED light as flash. Either you turn it on all the time or you need to turn it off and there is no short cut for it, you need to always go through all the setting steps to turn it on or off.
Also, the camera application is quite energy consuming, it will take 10% of the battery for everything 15 to 20 minutes use.
Other problems with the phone is the UI is confusing in some place, i.e. it still has the unmount SD card option, but you cannot take the SD card out, since it is blocked by the batter. The stupid SEMC UI design people never think through the problems. Also, when you are making a phone call, the power button is used to end the call not turn off the screen as in other scenario. Also, it has face recognition features, but you cannot add the face to a name that is not in your contact list. So, for example, if you took a photo of your boss and his wife, you cannot put his wife's name on the photo without creating an empty contact.
There is apparently not that much improvement of this phone compares to the first HTC android phone on the market around 6 months ago. You can still not use the alarm when you turn off the phone and you cannot charge the phone when it turned off. Also SEMC does not fix all the common Android problems, such as you cannot force stop the running applications even though in the settings you have options to do that. So, they spend 6 months more only for the two badly designed Timesacpe and Mediascape.
There are also lots of problems that I am tired to mention here. I am quite disappointed with this phone and the developing ability of SEMC. Apparently they can never make good product. Swedes+Japanese=Bad quality and Kinky ideas.
I got this phone last week but I am so disappointed with it.
It advertised to have the best camera among the Android phones on the market so far, but the camera application with the phone is soooooo bad.
First, you took a photo and you would like to see whether it is good or not, but when you enlarge it, no matter what, it is blur. Seems the photos cannot refine themselves. So, it is really difficult to see whether it is really blur because of shaking of the camera or it is OK.
Second, you cannot use the LED light as flash. Either you turn it on all the time or you need to turn it off, and there is no short cut for it, you need to always go through all the setting steps to turn it on or off. Also, the camera application is quite energy consuming, it will take 10% of the battery for everything 15 to 20 minutes use.
Other problems with the phone is the UI is confusing in some place, i.e. it still has the unmount SD card option, but you cannot take the SD card out, since it is blocked by the batter. The stupid SEMC UI design people never think through the problems. Also, when you are making a phone call, the power button is used to end the call not turn off the screen as it is in other scenarios. It has face recognition features, but you cannot add the face to a name that is not in your contact list. So, for example, if you took a photo of your boss and his wife, you cannot put his wife's name on the photo without creating an empty contact.
There is apparently not that much improvement of this phone compares to the first HTC android phone on the market around 6 months ago. You can still not use the alarm when you turn off the phone and you cannot charge the phone when it is turned off. Also SEMC does not fix all the common Android problems, such as you cannot force stop the running applications even though in the settings you have options to do that. So, they spend 6 months more only for the two badly designed applications Timesacpe and Mediascape.
There are also lots of problems that I am tired to mention here. I am quite disappointed with this phone and the developing ability of SEMC. Apparently they can never make good product. Swedes+Japanese=Bad quality and Kinky ideas.
I'm having issues with calls on the x10. The person on the other line can hear short bursts of static. They come randomly but they are really annoying. I can't hear them when I make the call or receive a call, however, any person on the other line can. Any suggestions?
Im having the same issue also. Can someone please help?
Im having the same issue also. Can someone please help?
X10 MINI-
a)why can’t i charge my phone through a power outlet? even though i have already connected the USB cord to it..i can only charge it through the computer.
b) why can’t i see my stuff in nicely sorted out files?
c) how do i delete all messages rather than “delete several”?