No wonder Sony Ericsson's XPERIA X1 is so good: HTC makes it

by Ryan Block, posted Feb 10th 2008 at 10:18PM

The company that once designed the Treo for Palm (and countless other amazing white-label devices) is apparently back in the ODM game. That's right, if you were wondering how the hell Sony Ericsson pulled the XPERIA X1 rabbit out of its hat, look no further than HTC. While we don't think they did any of the special software, we heard it through the grapevine that the X1 is all HTC-built, which kind of explains a lot if you ask us.

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Sony Ericsson, Windows Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS

Tags: odm, x1, xperia

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mikeed8986 @ Feb 10th 2008 10:24PM

OMG i'm not sure i even care who makes it this phone is gorgeous. can SE overtake Nokia with their newfound partnership with WinMo?

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Student Driver @ Feb 10th 2008 10:53PM

Yeah, I hate Sony (nothing against Ericsson) but I am very interested in this phone to replace my Dash later this year. Being an HTC is a plus, unless they are looking for another model to put a Ti OMAP 200MHz clocked at 180MHz in.

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Alex @ Feb 10th 2008 10:42PM

Does this mean there will be no proper graphics chip drivers?

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carlo2 @ Feb 10th 2008 10:44PM

You beat me to it, hahaha.

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fyreblazer @ Feb 11th 2008 10:08AM

So I guess these old unfunny "no drivers" jokes aren't going anywhere eh.

And the next reply to this will be, "not until we get them fixed!"

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Scott @ Feb 10th 2008 10:46PM

I tried to get my punch in also for those video drivers.

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shadow @ Feb 10th 2008 11:04PM

OH NO! please don't let HTC provide service, took 90 days to fix my Tilt.... Will have to buy from the carrier to ensure proper service.

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Mehul @ Feb 10th 2008 11:51PM

I have been a Sony Ericsson fan since the T610. After that, I've had 3 more SEs but THIS right here is what I've been waiting for all this time. I dont care if HTC makes it, I think its better than any HTC branded phones

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mikeed8986 @ Feb 11th 2008 1:11AM

i'm in the same SE lover's boat you're in bud. love 'em or hate 'em... Sony Ericsson's a growing boy. =D

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lifes2short @ Feb 10th 2008 11:58PM

Gotta LMAO at those professing such dear love for HTC today. Yes, the same HTC that all the geeks were paranoid-schizophrenic about less than 2 years ago about such a "secretive, controlling company". Puuuleeaaase!!

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Darren @ Feb 11th 2008 12:15AM

who says it's good? we haven't seen it yet. sure the faked up video with the model looks good, but the actual "in the wild" shot is pretty drab. is it really more than just an HTC Tilt with Sony lipstick?

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Smiley @ Feb 12th 2008 5:14PM

Actually they have two persons on their booth demoing the thing, and it DOES look pretty awesome. I'm talking about the hardware. They refuse to demo apps on it, they admit they're too buggy and not ready yet (even for a demo where they wouldn't let you handle the phone even one second). And their "Xperia UI" is nothing more than a glorified Today screen from what I've seen: the fancy stuff you see on the pictures are just shortcuts to different screens (custom Home/Today screens mostly, it seemed), but beyond that you'll fall back onto the default WinMob UI pretty quickly.
All in all I can't wait for HTC to release their own version. Heh.

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Anand @ Feb 11th 2008 12:26AM

it can't possibly be made by htc - it actually looks nice and has a high-res screen

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PEZ @ Feb 11th 2008 6:50AM

But.. no one DID ask you.

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eater of babies @ Feb 11th 2008 2:58PM

great so how much of a premium do i get to pay for se's version of the tilt?

i'm glad they didn't go the nokia route though and make xp1-1 for europe and six months later xp1-23RMM@%5352349 for america

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Chris @ Feb 21st 2008 12:18AM

My wife used to use a Samsung (touchscreen w/ stylus) with Windows Mobile on it, not sure of the version. Very uninteresting and slow to get to were you want. The Xperia is a 'sexy' looking phone, even more so than my iphone, but Windows Mobile, bah. Also, it is going to be released a whole year after the iphone (it took them that long to copy and see what people didn't like about it). Let's if Apple is smart enough to release the 2nd generation iphone around xperia's release date.

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