Xperia X10, New Update coming soon

As you might know, I have been dealing with rogers lately for getting a new phone. I once got Xperia X10, it has some issues and I returned it. I was waiting for the Samsung Galaxy Captivate to be realeased and get that one. It is taking forever that rogers announce the time of its release. Even if it get released today, it has an issue with its back and search button. I will definitely see myself clicking search button instead of back button several times. Other than that, I couldn't wait forever for rogers to release its release date.


They have announced that there will be a captivate available but didn't say when. Captivate was available in US from July 18th. Rogers announced it on August 4th and after a month there is no specific date.



There is another option for the Blackberry with its new Torch lineup coming out. But there is always a problem of applications with blackberry. There are so small number of applications for blackberry and I have learned that applications written for blackberry os 5 will not work on the blakberry os 6. Google maps will not work and also the google apps, if they work with lots of bugs until they got fixed.

*This is a simple video showing how to update blackberry 9700's OS to the 6th version.



Rogers has recently announced the Torch will be available in Canada on September 24th. The price for the 3 year term plan is 199.99, 50$ more than Iphone and 100 bucks more than Xperia X10 as of now. There is no price out yet for the Samsung Galaxy S Captivate.

Having all these in mind, I have stumbled upon an article in sony ericsson's blog that convinced me to put my faith on Xperia X10 once more and order it once more. They have promissed to upgrade to Android 2.1, also the HD video recording (720P) and lots of more options. Think of a cell phone with 8 megapixel camera, capable of recording video in HD, running Android 2.1, there won't be any cell phone with the 99.99 price to be able to compete with, is there ?



So once again I have asked rogers to send me a new Xperia X10 and hope till then the updates are out and no news about Galaxy Captivate.

Sony Xperia X10, another failure

A week ago I have changed my price plan with rogers and was eligible for a hardware upgrade. Due to the high demand of Iphone 4, I couldn't get an Iphone. However, I have had the chance to get a new Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 or a new Blackberry 9700 for 99.99 dollars plus 35 activation fee.
I was trying out the Xperia X10 for quite a bit. I can say it is not what you expect from a smartphone. I have had an IPhone 3G for almost a year and now I am using a Nokia 5800.

The first problem with Xperia X10 was its battery life. It can give you the expected battery life if you don't install any application or use any special feature of the phone like new applications or even its own Timescape.

The screen is big, but I don't think the problem is with the screen, cause IPhone has the same size screen as well. After installing some application, don't ASTONISH if you see your battery goes from 100 percent to 0 in 6 hours. Then you realize that you need some application to limit the capability of your phone by disabling the data connection, GPS connection and other background application while in standby. Even using this preferences won't help the battery life for a long time. You only can barely survive a day if you see some videos on youtube, checking your email often throughout the day, do some texting and making some calls.


The only good thing about the X10 is its 8.1 megapixel camera. It is something to be loved and take some cool pictures. However, the flash on the camera is not that good. The flash on my own nokia 5800 is much much better than X10. Although the android market can not be compared with the OVI market by Nokia, but I can find the applications I need in OVI. There is an application for forsquares called waze, skype and many more. Forgot to mention that there is no skype for XPeria X10. It is a big disadvantage.


The interface is not even friendly at all. There is no foldering in the Xperia X10 and you can barely add all your applications in the main homepage. If you even want to install AWD.Laucher, a very nice home application for android phone, you will be in trouble receiving calls. Since there is a special interface in X10 receiving calls and general home application like the above are not supporting that. It is not really rational and even cool for a phone to install an application and then not be able to answer a phone call, the basic functionality of a phone.