01 March 2011 by Liam
It’s been a long road for Xperia X10 Mini and Mini Pro owners waiting for their Android 2.1 Éclair update but the last network to roll out the update in the UK, Vodafone, is now making the update available. The update isn’t going out over the air, so once you get a notification that your update is ready, you’ll have to connect up to a PC and use Sony Ericsson’s PC Companion syncing tool to load the firmware upgrade. While many users will remai...
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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 mini deals on contract
Rumored as the Robyn before its release, the new Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini is a dwarf brother to its larger X10 Android smartphone. Its “Mini” designation describes in a word its minimized feature set. This seems to be turning out to be an emerging trend among mobile phone brands to have a more affordable lite or mini version of a fuller high spec phone that has created market following in the upscale markets if only to widen its market reach.
A Minimized Feature Set
The X10 Mini is a mini outside were you get 3mm thinner, 7mm narrower, 26mm shorter and weighing 47g lighter than the X10. It accommodates just a 2.6-inch capacitive touchscreen with a regular QVGA resolution but with brilliant 16 million colors. There’s the usual gravity accelerometer and a screen surface treated to be scratch resistant.
Its imaging gets scaled from 8 to 5 megapixel camera with autofocus, LED flash, geo tagging from its GPS receiver but with the same VGA recording at 30fps frame rate with video light. There’s no image stabilization or face/smile detection found on the X10.
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Under the hood, the X10 Mini is also a mini. You won’t get the super 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon that’s entirely overkill with its minimized feature set, rather you get a more appropriate Qualcomm MSM7227 processor clocked at 600 MHz. It still runs the same Android 1.6 Donut tweaked with the Rachel UX (user eXperience) user interface.
Its internal storage also gets diminished from 1 GB on the X10 to a mere 128 MB and comes with the same nearly unlimited phonebook entries and fields as well as a microSD slot that makes it expandable up to 16 GB.
Features Common with the X10
Despite a minimized feature set, the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini Pro remains your competent 3G Android phone on the dual band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA and a quad band GSM with class 10 GPRS/EDGE on 2G that makes it usable anywhere on the planet. You still get WiFi 802.11b/g for hotspot surfing with Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and microUSB 2.0 for high speed wireless and wired data transfers, respectively.
There’s SatNav as well with A-GPS supported by Google Maps and a digital compass. Multimedia get the same media players with TrackID music recognition, stereo FM radio with RDS and a 3.5 mm audio power.
The Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini comes bundled with the same Timescape and Mediascape features as well as Google apps like Google Talk for IM, Google Search with voice activation, push email, Gmail, HTML browser and document viewers for PDF and MS Office files. Talk times are not generous at only 4 hours with a standby time of 265 hours on a full charge.
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Latest Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 mini News
05 November 2010 by Best Mobile Contracts
Orange Mobile UK has just announced that it will be launching a Fashion lineup for the X10 Mini. The ad stated that the handset would be having casings with fashion aesthetics that are in the style of Milan, Paris and London. The Fashion Covers, as well as style apps will be available from the network operator for those singing up for the handset. With a special 20 Pound monthly tariff (under the Dolphin plan), subscribers will be able to enjo...
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Orange Mobile UK has just announced that it will be launching a Fashion lineup for the X10 Mini. The ad stated that the handset would be having casings with fashion aesthetics that are in the style of Milan, Paris and London. The Fashion Covers, as well as style apps will be available from the network operator for those singing up for the handset. With a special 20 Pound monthly tariff (under the Dolphin plan), subscribers will be able to enjo...
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03 November 2010 by Best Mobile Contracts
Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA series of handsets are getting the Android 2.1 Éclair treatment with updates for the X10, X10 Mini, X10 Mini Pro already out –though the update is not yet available in the UK. Many predict that the Local release of the X10 updates will be done by the end of the year or possibly till early 2011. In any case, this marks the last set of high end current generation handsets moving onwards from the older 1.X Android systems to t...
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Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA series of handsets are getting the Android 2.1 Éclair treatment with updates for the X10, X10 Mini, X10 Mini Pro already out –though the update is not yet available in the UK. Many predict that the Local release of the X10 updates will be done by the end of the year or possibly till early 2011. In any case, this marks the last set of high end current generation handsets moving onwards from the older 1.X Android systems to t...
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09 September 2010 by Best Mobile Contracts
When it comes to comparing smart phones, dealing with all the specs and style details can get pretty hair-raising, after all, what is great and practical to one person may be completely useless for another. But when the only thing you look at is the sales performance, then it is easy to see which mobile phones truly are succeeding in the UK. Starting things off, no list would be complete without the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini handset. The small si...
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When it comes to comparing smart phones, dealing with all the specs and style details can get pretty hair-raising, after all, what is great and practical to one person may be completely useless for another. But when the only thing you look at is the sales performance, then it is easy to see which mobile phones truly are succeeding in the UK. Starting things off, no list would be complete without the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini handset. The small si...
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02 September 2010 by Best Mobile Contracts
Here is a bit of good, though expected news for Sony Ericsson Android owners: the official Android 2.1 Éclair update will be arriving this month of September for all devices. The move is expected –it was announced much earlier this year and has been the source of disappointment and frustration for many XPERIA handset owners. After all, while other mobile phones are already lining up for the Android 2.2 Froyo update, the expensive Sony Ericsson...
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Here is a bit of good, though expected news for Sony Ericsson Android owners: the official Android 2.1 Éclair update will be arriving this month of September for all devices. The move is expected –it was announced much earlier this year and has been the source of disappointment and frustration for many XPERIA handset owners. After all, while other mobile phones are already lining up for the Android 2.2 Froyo update, the expensive Sony Ericsson...
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