Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1
Encyclopedia
The Xperia X1 is a high-end smartphone
from Sony Ericsson
, and is the first in the manufacturer's Xperia series
. The X1 was first presented at the 2008 Mobile World Congress
.
6.1 Operating System. It is Sony Ericsson's first mobile phone to feature Windows Mobile. The device also has a Java
virtual machine (JBed) and supports Java Platform, Micro Edition
that is claimed to have a richer set of features than typically available.
The phone features a three-inch resistive touchscreen
overlaying a keypad which emerges when the user slides the touchscreen face upward, much as in the HTC TyTN II
, although the X1's touchscreen slides out in an arc. Its touchscreen is a 65,536-color TFT WVGA display. It has a 3.2-megapixel digital camera
which records video at thirty frames per second in VGA (640×480) quality. There is also a secondary front-facing camera for videoconferencing that is of QCIF format. Connectivity options for the phone include: mini-USB; wireless LAN
802.11b/g; Bluetooth
2.0 with A2DP, FTP
, and HID
; EDGE
; and quad-band GSM, UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, and HSCSD. The X1 has 512 MB of internal memory (400 MB free), which is expandable to 16 gigabytes using High Capacity microSD cards, currently cards up to 32 gigabytes have been released by SanDisk. The phone also features A-GPS for navigation.
The X1 ships with Opera Mobile
pre-installed.
Standard features on the X1 include push
email
, an RSS feed aggregator, and handwriting recognition.
It is also able to use the GSM network feature Alternate line service
.
The device is powered by Qualcomm
's ARM 11
MSM7200A CPU, which runs at 528 MHz. The device's memory is 256 MB RAM.
or HTML
with Microsoft Visual Studio
2005 SP1 or better. There is also a third party website which simplifies to process of creating an HTML panel, as it is quite a complex task with Visual Studio.
In Hong Kong
, X1 was shipped on 29 October 2008. The first batch of X1 in Hong Kong was dedicated for the mobile operator Three HK and was reserved for the operator's VIP premium user for pre-ordering.
In South Africa, it was released to the public on December 16, 2009.
On November 13, Sony Ericsson announced that the phone would be available in North America on November 28, 2008 for $799 unlocked.
In Australia, the X1a was released on Telstra
in December 2008 and went on sale December 26, 2008. It's now also available on the Vodafone and 3 Networks.
The Sony Ericsson Canadian website reveals the X1a as "coming soon", available within three months. The availability status was spotted as early as February 14, 2010.
Weight with battery: 158.0 grams; 5.57 ounces
Talk time:
GSM: 10h
WCDMA: 6h
WCDMA video call: 3h
Stand by:
GSM: 20.8 days
WCDMA: 20.7 days
Connectivity options include :
The XDAndroid project makes it possible to run Android on some Windows Mobile phones, including the Xperia X1.
The launch is tied in closely with the "London Design Festival".
Smartphone
A smartphone is a high-end mobile phone built on a mobile computing platform, with more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary feature phone. The first smartphones were devices that mainly combined the functions of a personal digital assistant and a mobile phone or camera...
from Sony Ericsson
Sony Ericsson
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB is a joint venture established on October 1, 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to manufacture mobile phones....
, and is the first in the manufacturer's Xperia series
XPERIA
Xperia is the range of Sony Ericsson handsets which are smartphones. Since 2010 the company's main focus has been on these devices which now account for more than half of all sales. Xperia is derived from the word 'experience' which was used in the branding of the Xperia X1 in the catch line, "I ...
. The X1 was first presented at the 2008 Mobile World Congress
Mobile World Congress
The GSMA Mobile World Congress is the combination of the world's largest exhibition for the mobile industry and a conference featuring prominent Chief Executives representing mobile operators, device manufacturers, technology providers, vendors and content owners from across the world...
.
Basics
The X1 is an arc-slider phone with the Windows MobileWindows Mobile
Windows Mobile is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft that was used in smartphones and Pocket PCs, but by 2011 was rarely supplied on new phones. The last version is "Windows Mobile 6.5.5"; it is superseded by Windows Phone, which does not run Windows Mobile software.Windows Mobile is...
6.1 Operating System. It is Sony Ericsson's first mobile phone to feature Windows Mobile. The device also has a Java
Java (programming language)
Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
virtual machine (JBed) and supports Java Platform, Micro Edition
Java Platform, Micro Edition
Java Platform, Micro Edition, or Java ME, is a Java platform designed for embedded systems . Target devices range from industrial controls to mobile phones and set-top boxes...
that is claimed to have a richer set of features than typically available.
The phone features a three-inch resistive touchscreen
Resistive touchscreen
In electrical engineering, resistive touchscreens are touch-sensitive computer displays composed of two flexible sheets coated with a resistive material and separated by an air gap or microdots. There are two different types of metallic layers. The first one is Matrix, which is a striped electrodes...
overlaying a keypad which emerges when the user slides the touchscreen face upward, much as in the HTC TyTN II
HTC TyTN II
The HTC TyTN II is an Internet-enabled Windows Mobile Pocket PC smartphone designed and marketed by HTC Corporation of Taiwan. It has a tilting touchscreen with a right-side slide-out QWERTY keyboard...
, although the X1's touchscreen slides out in an arc. Its touchscreen is a 65,536-color TFT WVGA display. It has a 3.2-megapixel digital camera
Digital camera
A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images via an electronic image sensor. It is the main device used in the field of digital photography...
which records video at thirty frames per second in VGA (640×480) quality. There is also a secondary front-facing camera for videoconferencing that is of QCIF format. Connectivity options for the phone include: mini-USB; wireless LAN
Wireless LAN
A wireless local area network links two or more devices using some wireless distribution method , and usually providing a connection through an access point to the wider internet. This gives users the mobility to move around within a local coverage area and still be connected to the network...
802.11b/g; Bluetooth
Bluetooth
Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...
2.0 with A2DP, FTP
File Transfer Protocol
File Transfer Protocol is a standard network protocol used to transfer files from one host to another host over a TCP-based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server...
, and HID
Human interface device
A human interface device or HID is a type of computer device that interacts directly with, and most often takes input from, humans and may deliver output to humans. The term "HID" most commonly refers to the USB-HID specification. The term was coined by Mike Van Flandern of Microsoft when he...
; EDGE
Edge device
Edge devices are routers, routing switches, integrated access devices , multiplexers, and a variety of metropolitan area network and wide area network access devices that provide entry points into enterprise or service provider core networks...
; and quad-band GSM, UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, and HSCSD. The X1 has 512 MB of internal memory (400 MB free), which is expandable to 16 gigabytes using High Capacity microSD cards, currently cards up to 32 gigabytes have been released by SanDisk. The phone also features A-GPS for navigation.
The X1 ships with Opera Mobile
Opera Mobile
Opera Mobile is a web browser for smartphones and PDA's developed by the Opera Software company. The first version was released in 2000 for the Psion Series 7 and netBook. Today, it is available for a variety of devices that run on Android, S60, Windows Mobile, Maemo , and MeeGo...
pre-installed.
Standard features on the X1 include push
Push technology
Push technology, or server push, describes a style of Internet-based communication where the request for a given transaction is initiated by the publisher or central server...
Email
Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
, an RSS feed aggregator, and handwriting recognition.
It is also able to use the GSM network feature Alternate line service
Alternate line service
Alternate Line service is a GSM feature for supporting two different phone numbers on the same mobile device.The AlternateLineService was introduced as additional service with the former "PCS-1800" standard, in a specification called "CPHS"...
.
The device is powered by Qualcomm
Qualcomm
Qualcomm is an American global telecommunication corporation that designs, manufactures and markets digital wireless telecommunications products and services based on its code division multiple access technology and other technologies. Headquartered in San Diego, CA, USA...
's ARM 11
ARM architecture
ARM is a 32-bit reduced instruction set computer instruction set architecture developed by ARM Holdings. It was named the Advanced RISC Machine, and before that, the Acorn RISC Machine. The ARM architecture is the most widely used 32-bit ISA in numbers produced...
MSM7200A CPU, which runs at 528 MHz. The device's memory is 256 MB RAM.
Panel interface
The home screen on the Xperia X1 supports up to nine different "panels" which can be switched between by the user, each offering different functionality. This allows users to select exactly which functionality they want on their homescreen, and switch easily. Extra panels can be downloaded from Sony Ericsson or third parties. Sony Ericsson released an SDK for developers which allows panels to be created using either C++C++
C++ is a statically typed, free-form, multi-paradigm, compiled, general-purpose programming language. It is regarded as an intermediate-level language, as it comprises a combination of both high-level and low-level language features. It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at Bell...
or HTML
HTML
HyperText Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. HTML elements are the basic building-blocks of webpages....
with Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Visual Studio
Microsoft Visual Studio is an integrated development environment from Microsoft. It is used to develop console and graphical user interface applications along with Windows Forms applications, web sites, web applications, and web services in both native code together with managed code for all...
2005 SP1 or better. There is also a third party website which simplifies to process of creating an HTML panel, as it is quite a complex task with Visual Studio.
Release date
The X1 began shipping on the September 30, 2008. It became available to the UK market on October 27, 2008 (only on Vodafone). The handset is available through the Carphone Warehouse and Phones4Uin the UK. In Europe it will be sold only in Fnac stores (Belgium and France).In Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is one of two Special Administrative Regions of the People's Republic of China , the other being Macau. A city-state situated on China's south coast and enclosed by the Pearl River Delta and South China Sea, it is renowned for its expansive skyline and deep natural harbour...
, X1 was shipped on 29 October 2008. The first batch of X1 in Hong Kong was dedicated for the mobile operator Three HK and was reserved for the operator's VIP premium user for pre-ordering.
In South Africa, it was released to the public on December 16, 2009.
On November 13, Sony Ericsson announced that the phone would be available in North America on November 28, 2008 for $799 unlocked.
In Australia, the X1a was released on Telstra
Telstra
Telstra Corporation Limited is an Australian telecommunications and media company, building and operating telecommunications networks and marketing voice, mobile, internet access and pay television products and services....
in December 2008 and went on sale December 26, 2008. It's now also available on the Vodafone and 3 Networks.
The Sony Ericsson Canadian website reveals the X1a as "coming soon", available within three months. The availability status was spotted as early as February 14, 2010.
Display
- 3" resistive touchscreen with a resolution of 800×480 pixels (WVGA)
- 65 thousand color TFT display
Physical Attributes
Dimensions: 110.0 × 53.0 × 16.7 millimeters; 4.33 × 2.09 × 0.66 inchesWeight with battery: 158.0 grams; 5.57 ounces
Battery
Lithium-Polymer, 1500 mAh.Talk time:
GSM: 10h
WCDMA: 6h
WCDMA video call: 3h
Stand by:
GSM: 20.8 days
WCDMA: 20.7 days
Connectivity
The Xperia X1 supports an always-on 3G broadband Internet connection with high-speed data transfer. This enables audio and video streaming, web surfing, multimedia messaging and email.Connectivity options include :
- 3.5G broadband
- HSDPA with download transfer rate up to 7.2 Mbit/s
- HSUPA with upload transfer rate up to 2.0 Mbit/s
- Wi-Fi
- BluetoothBluetoothBluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...
, with a range of 10 meters - GPRS modem for dial-up Internet
- Synchronization and content sharing with PCs
- USB mass storage
- USB cable support
Software features
Windows Mobile operating system- Microsoft Outlook Mobile: email, contacts, calendar, tasks
- Microsoft Office Mobile: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Opera Mobile
- Windows Media Player Mobile
- Windows Live
- Exchange ActiveSync
- Voice control
- Utility Applications: file explorer, calculator, pictures & video, notes
The XDAndroid project makes it possible to run Android on some Windows Mobile phones, including the Xperia X1.
Networks
- Quad-bandMulti-bandIn telecommunications, the terms multi-band, dual-band, tri-band, quad-band and penta-band refer to a device supporting multiple radio frequency bands used for communication...
GSM / GPRSGeneral Packet Radio ServiceGeneral packet radio service is a packet oriented mobile data service on the 2G and 3G cellular communication system's global system for mobile communications . GPRS was originally standardized by European Telecommunications Standards Institute in response to the earlier CDPD and i-mode...
/ EDGEEnhanced Data Rates for GSM EvolutionEnhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution is a digital mobile phone technology that allows improved data transmission rates as a backward-compatible extension of GSM...
: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - Tri-bandMulti-bandIn telecommunications, the terms multi-band, dual-band, tri-band, quad-band and penta-band refer to a device supporting multiple radio frequency bands used for communication...
UMTSUniversal Mobile Telecommunications SystemUniversal Mobile Telecommunications System is a third generation mobile cellular technology for networks based on the GSM standard. Developed by the 3GPP , UMTS is a component of the International Telecommunications Union IMT-2000 standard set and compares with the CDMA2000 standard set for...
/ HSDPAHigh-Speed Downlink Packet AccessHigh-Speed Downlink Packet Access is an enhanced 3G mobile telephony communications protocol in the High-Speed Packet Access family, also dubbed 3.5G, 3G+ or turbo 3G, which allows networks based on Universal Mobile Telecommunications System to have higher data transfer speeds and capacity...
/ HSUPAHigh-Speed Uplink Packet AccessHigh-Speed Uplink Packet Access is a 3G mobile telephony protocol in the HSPA family with up-link speeds up to 5.76 Mbit/s. The name HSUPA was created by Nokia...
: UMTS 850 / 1900 / 2100UMTS frequency bandsThe UMTS frequency bands are radio frequencies used by third generation wireless Universal Mobile Telecommunications System networks.They were allocated by delegates to the World Administrative Radio Conference held in Málaga-Torremolinos, Spain between February 3, 1992 and March 3, 1992...
X1a, UMTS 900 / 1900 / 2100UMTS frequency bandsThe UMTS frequency bands are radio frequencies used by third generation wireless Universal Mobile Telecommunications System networks.They were allocated by delegates to the World Administrative Radio Conference held in Málaga-Torremolinos, Spain between February 3, 1992 and March 3, 1992...
X1i/X1c - SARSpecific absorption rateSpecific absorption rate is a measure of the rate at which energy is absorbed by the body when exposed to a radio frequency electromagnetic field; although, it can also refer to absorption of other forms of energy by tissue, including ultrasound . It is defined as the power absorbed per mass of...
value: 0.57 W/kg
Publicity
The launch of the Xperia X1 is being accompanied by a video called "Who is Johnny X?".The launch is tied in closely with the "London Design Festival".