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Future Release Date: May of 2010

Retail Price: TBA but Guessed to Be $600 with Regards to Comparable Models

Battery

Because of the Sony Ericsson XPeria X10a’s large display, 3G wireless capability, and extremely fast CPU, this phone will eat through a battery charge within a day. The included lithium ion battery of 1500mAh may last most moderate users the majority of the day with the need for a nightly charge. However, other comparable Smartphones tend to drain their battery’s power at a similar rate. Anyone who uses their cell phone heavily will benefit from an extra battery to swap during the day.

Memory and Processor Speed

This XPeria phone is being highly acclaimed for its lightening fast 1GHz processor speed thanks to its Snapdragon processor made by Qualcomm. To date, this processor is among the fastest made specifically for cell phones and mobile devices. The internal storage of the XPeria X10a is also fantastic due to its 1GB of RAM, 256MB of ROM and an included 8GB micro SD card.

Screen

The display size of the X10a is nothing short of remarkable. Its 4 inch, 854 x 480 pixel resolution screen that is sharp and bright takes its place as one of the most large cell phone display screens available in today’s market.  However, the sweep screen feature will be a source of frustration for many users as they will find it to be too long of a motion to complete quickly enough for the sweep feature to actually work.

Form

This model of XPeria by Sony Ericsson features a plastic shell that comes in either white or black. While the X10a comes off as slightly tall with the screen as its overwhelming feature, its three mechanical buttons of chrome located below the screen do not add to the phone’s size. Even though the phone is plastic encased, this particular model has a matte finish and curved CPU, making it easier to hold. The right side of the XPeria X10a holds the volume and camera button while the USB port, power button, and headphone jack are located on top.

Controls

Even though the 4.0 screen size should give the X10a users a definite typing advantages, testers of the per-released X10a model reported both the portrait and landscape mode to only give them a 50% average accuracy.  And while not perfect, most people believe the Android keyboard options works better.

Camera

The Sony Ericsson XPeria X10 has a virtually unbeatable 8.1 megapixel camera that includes LED flash and auto-focus. However, users have many more options than auto-focus, including a single and multi auto-focus feature as well as face detection, macro, and infinity focus. It also allows users to pick from a wide range of preset scene modes that have an optional exposure tweaking function. Some of these scenes include beach, snow, sports, document, party, night, and portrait.

Other Features

•    Google Map compatible Wisepilot GPS
•    Android 1.6 that will be upgraded at the end of 2010
•    Timescape and Mediascape
•    Sony Ericsson Sync