Xperia X10 Features + Launch
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 is the first Android phone from Sony Ericsson. The Xperia X10 sports an 8-Megapixel camera, 3G HSDPA and Wi-Fi connectivity, as well as a specially developed user interface that sits on top of the Google Android 2.0 OS. The Xperia X10 comes with a 4-inch capacitive touchscreen and a 1GHz Qualcomm snapdragon processor.
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Key Features:
OS: Android 2.0
Size: 119 x 63 x 13 mm, 135 g
Display: 4″ 65K-color TFT capacitive touchscreen, 854 x 480 pixels
CPU: Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon 1 GHz processor
Memory: 1GB storage, 256MB RAM, microSD, 8GB card included
Camera: 8 megapixel auto-focus camera with LED flash and face detection
Connectivity: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, standard microUSB port, GPS receiver with A-GPS, 3.5mm audio jack
The phone is expected to hit the market in January 2010.
This phone was code named Rachael by Sony Ericsson before it was given its current name: the Xperia X10.
Asus to launch PDA phone with GPS
AsusTek in India will be launching a PDA phone with support for GPS (Global Positioning System) navigation. Priced at around Rs 35,000, the company claims it to be India’s first PDA phone to have GPS support. The model – P535 tri-band PDA phone – incorporates full wireless functionality, GPS and high quality auto-focus camera in a compact form-factor. The tentative plans are to launch this phone in the month of January 2007 along with the appointment of a new national distributor for this product.
Originally developed for military use, GPS now has a wide range of civilian applications like tracing addresses in a foreign land, tracking distance and speeds on road trips, treks or while jogging. The P535 offers the capabilities of GPS in a compact, handy form-factor.
Asus would also be introducing the world’s first wireless Skype music phone to the India market. Apart from the Skype support this phone, called the AiGuru S1, connects to any computer using 802.11b+g wireless broadband technology and can be used to listen to music from the computer.
Along with the P535 model, the company would be launching the P525 Quad-Band PDA Phone also. The P525 quad-band PDA phone incorporates Push E-mail, Wi-Fi support and built-in numeric keypad to deliver a complete mobile business solution. The phone also integrates use of Skype’s VoIP service.
Andrew Tsui, MD, AsusTek India, said, “We will be soon announcing an appointment of distributor for our phones.” Company insiders informed that the company has already finalized on the distributor but is not ready to disclose the same as formalities are yet to be completed.
While the company is ready to present the PDA phone as a first time phone launch from Asus, the channels are not convinced of the same. According to them, this is actually the second time, Asus is disclosing plans to launch phones in India. The first time such an announcement was made in February 2005, wherein the company had displayed two mobile phones and one PDA phone in the Mumbai. These phones never came in to the market. When asked about this, Tsui said, “Those phone model were signed up for an OEM contract arrangement and hence were not marketed here.”
From January, Asus is gearing up to enter the mobile phone market more aggressively than before. The rough estimation of global production output for its own brand of mobile phone will be over two millions units and there will be 500,000 units in Taiwan market alone.
As a global strategy, Asus has been putting a lot of stress on GPS-based mobile phone. According to the company GPS PDA mobile phones have been gaining popularity in the global market. Globally, Asus expects PDA and GPS related products to account for 50 percent of the overall revenue from hand-held devices in 2007.
