Review by Clicktician for Sony Ericsson X2 Xperia Silver Unlocked GSM QWERTY Keyboard, Quad-Band,8.1 Megapixel Camera, Video-/MP3-Player, WLAN, Bluetooth, USB, microSD Slot
Rating:
The Xperia X2 specs are impressive. Sony has crammed a lot into this little phone. I’ve used it for a little over a week.

Pros:

+ I like the form factor. But I appreciate business-like phones with no unnecessary do-dads. Smaller than my Nokia N900.

+ The keyboard is wonderful. I buy a new phone every 6 months and most have keyboards. This one is the best. Numbers are not across the top qwerty row, but rather they are clustered in a phone key pad arrangement. You’ll immediately get used to it and makes for a lot less stretching of your fingers. Enter key is very large for a phone.

+ Headphone jack. Stereo speakers. Everything sounds great. Works with my Nokia, Jabra, and Plantronics stereo bluetooth headsets.

+ Home screen has several “panels” which change the home screen completely. These changes can be based on an event like time of day. I like the SPB shell panel the best, but then I’m used to SPB and I like densely packed home screens.

+ I installed Opera Mobile, Mocha VNC, WMWifi, and CorePlayer which are essentials for me. All work.

+ Phone calls are quite clear even on speaker phone.

Cons:

- Have to remove the battery frequently because the phone locks up.

- Came with a Euro wall adapter for the charger. No USA adapter.

- Performance on AT&T 3g network is poor. Internet services hang and often the phone has to be powered down to recover. All of the smartphones I’ve owned have significantly better internet performance on AT&T 3g.

- Media Player couldn’t play any of my mobile video collection (divix, mp4, mpg1). It only recognized .wmv and was unable to play that without serious stutter and hang.

- CorePlayer, of course, could play everything in my mobile video collection, but it strained to play anything but the mpg1 files (400×240 var bit rate). Dropped frames and video tearing were the most common problems on divix and mp4.

- Email does not alert when the phone is in standby or locked. Only when you wake it, does it discover e-mails have arrived and then it plays the sound and updates the screen with the e-mail count. For me, it must alert on any message just like it does with an incoming call.

Conclusion:

Yesterday, I ordered an HTC HD2. The Xperia X2 is unusable for me. When the HD2 comes in, I’ll give the Xperia away to a colleague who just makes calls, but goes through a lot of phones because his toddlers play with them and drool eventually kills the phones.

Review by TeaBoy for Sony Ericsson X2 Xperia Silver Unlocked GSM QWERTY Keyboard, Quad-Band,8.1 Megapixel Camera, Video-/MP3-Player, WLAN, Bluetooth, USB, microSD Slot
Rating:
Great phone.

has keyboard.

Touchscreen.

Wifi.

almost everything needed..

Also a market place to download application.

Better then the x1

A ok upgrade if you are upgrading from the x1