Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 unboxed, played with on video

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Charles @ Oct 13th 2008 6:25AM

Yawn... sure glad my T-Mobile G1 is about ready to ship :) The tiles are jerkily animated, and the screen takes forever to switch between portrait and landscape. MS better get going with WM7, this might generate buzz at an industry trade show, but it'll gather dust on the shelves of retail.

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Nippero @ Oct 13th 2008 6:54AM

I dont see what you mean about the tiles being jerky. Theyre not meant to be smooth by like fading in and out, they bounce around by design. Actually, in other videos you see the little panels shaking, quite cute in my opinion lol.

The screen orientation there does take a while to switch though, but that video shows a prototype actually, some other reviews have actually said the switch is actually pretty fast.

Heres some other reviews:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sourceid=navclient&hl=en&u=http%3a%2f%2fwww.jouwmobiel.com%2ftoestellen%2freview%2fshow%2fSony%2bEricsson%2fX1%2f2aba950f-d17e-4b65-b310-cc1fecb3532b%2f

http://www.tracyandmatt.co.uk/blogs/index.php/2008/10/13/sony-ericsson-xperia-x1-answers

The second one states the orientation switch takes approx. half a second. To me thats pretty good.

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carlo2 @ Oct 13th 2008 10:07AM

But what's so much better about the G-1??? No one seems to be able to answer that.

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justinhub2003 @ Oct 13th 2008 1:12PM

whats better about the g1 over the x1 is the OS. win mo 6.1 is very inferior to what i've seen (and played with at the store) on the g1 and its android operating system. but if say the x1 had android then there is no denying that the x1 would be better. its just i am a win mo user now and have become a very dissatisfied customer, its so slow and freezes up .
now say when win mo release 7.0 this might change and hopefully they address the issues people are unhappy with.

but as of right now, if i had the choice i would still take my not so pretty g1 over a very slow and clunky x1 with win mo. x1 wins the style award but g1 takes the cake with best performance and useability.

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Nal @ Oct 13th 2008 3:40PM

Charles, have you seen other phones with accelerometers like the Touch Pro, Diamond, and the iPhone? I'll assume you haven't because that was pretty decent compared to other phones.

And as for the tiles being "jerky", those transitions were pretty smooth for phones nowadays. I doubt you can find a phone that has those types of transitions and execute them any more smoothly. I'm sure they'll perfect it in a few months or years but hey, that's where mobile technology is now.

And as much as I like the G1, that phone does look pretty outdated compared to the Xperia. The Xperia is far more stylish and creative. And I like the more refined animation the Xperia has compared to the simple UI of the current version of Android. I would compare it to TouchFlo3D. I like Android and all but it's not that big on style and detail. And sure, I will end up with an Android phone eventually, but it sure won't be the G1. Compared to phones like this (Xperia), the G1 pretty much sucks as far as physical appearance is concerned. Android? Awesome. G1? Not so much.

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