Xperia X10 Launch Event interviews, available now at Rogers
Today Rogers launched the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Android-packing phone, for $149.99 on a 3 year contract, $549 outright. It runs Android 1.6, with Sony Ericsson’s custom Timescape and Mediascape UI. It has 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 4″ (480 x 854) screen and an 8.1 MP camera. Included in the box is a 16gb MicroSD card, charger and wired stereo headset, but sadly no carrying case. We should be getting an X10 to play with soon, and will post our in-depth hands-on review next week. You can buy phone today at your local Rogers Wireless store, or online here.
We also had the opportunity to attend the Canadian launch party for the X10. Besides the free drink tickets and an early chance to try out the premium Android device, towards the end of the event we sat down for a few minutes to talk with talk with Anderson Teixeira, President of Sony Ericsson US and Raj Doshi, Vice President, Device and Product Management of Rogers.
If the video weren’t a giveaway, it was a dimly lit bar setting.
A couple of interesting takeaways include that the Xperia X10 will be getting the Android update treatment during the Christmas season, to coincide with new models packing the latest Android. Sony Ericsson also plans on taking the four OS approach (Android, Windows Phone, Symbian and their own proprietary OS) going forward, and in regards to Windows Phone in the future, well he said that SE still has “a very close relationship with (Microsoft), but that’s all I can tell you.”
As for whether the funky Timescape and Mediascape would appear on non-Android SE phones? “No comment”. Read into that what you will.
Remember to check back soon for our in-depth review…
A short hands-on X10 video from the Rogers Redboard blog
[…] in the world, the handset usually comes with an 8GB card, the X10 is listed on Rogers and noted by RGB Filter, who attended the event, as having a 16GB MicroSD card.During the event, RGB Filter also got to […]