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Russ over at Mobile Tech Addicts has just posted a full review of the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1i. The Xperia X1 is a new phone from Sony Ericsson powered by Windows Mobile 6.1. It has amazing build quality and is smaller than expected from seeing the press shots and other reviews. The first thing you will notice is the truly great build quality of this device. Having had other HTC devices mainly made from plastics this is a classy build with nice metals and solid feel.
Yes it does have a 3.5mm headphone jack which is very useful when you just want to plug in regular headphones. The Xperia comes with a nice set of in-ear noise suppressing earphones which come in two parts, main lead with a mic and female 3.5 so you can plug in either the supplied headphones or your own expensive one.
Memory – This is big plus for the Xperia, it comes with 512MB ROM and 256MB RAM with an additional 128MB of dedicated graphics memory. This means that the panels do not take up much memory at all. I had Opera and Kinoma Player (which are large memory app’s) plus 5 other regular app’s running and still had over 50% memory remaining. Making the device fast and quick to switch between applications.
Data – This device has WIFI and HSDPA (Fast 3G). This is the X1i (international) which covers everywhere except US and has the European 3G bands. The device will still work in the US and as far as I know it has the right bands to pick up 3g on AT&T but don’t quote me on that. GSM voice will work fine everywhere.
Camera – Its ok, 3.2mp with touch to focus which is nice to have. The flash is not really a flash it’s a light? So it’s either on or off? Bit odd, I was expecting a proper flash.
Picture quality is fine outdoors but inside even with the light is still poor unless you are a statue taking a picture of a statue. Any movement just gives you blurred photos. It just does not work in low light very well at all. To be honest the “flash” is pretty much useless.
It does however record video at 30fps in full VGA is very nice and produces great videos when lighting permits. (The US version X1a is limited to 24fps at QVGA for legal reasons)
For the full review visit Mobile Tech Addicts
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