The XPERIA X1 is a luxury smartphone from Sony Ericsson, manufactured by High Tech Computer Corporation, and is the first in the manufacturer's Xperia series. The X1 was first presented at the 2008 Mobile World Congress. The X1 is an arc-slider phone with the Windows Mobile 6.1 Operating System. It is Sony Ericsson's first mobile phone to feature Windows Mobile. Device also has Java virtual machine (JBed) and supports JavaME that is claimed to have richer set of features than typically available.
The phone features a three-inch 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 (640x480) 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 2.1 with A2DP, FTP, and HID; EDGE; and quad-band GSM, UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, and HSCSD.
The X1 has 512MB of internal memory (400MB free), which is expandable to 32 gigabytes using High Capacity microSD cards, although currently only cards up to 16 gigabytes have been released by SanDisk. The phone also features A-GPS for navigation. The X1 began shipping on the 30th of September 2008, and was meant to become available in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Sweden. It became available to the UK market on October 27, 2008(only on Vodafone) but it is not clear when it will be released to the rest of the EU.
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 South Africa, it will be released to the public on December 16, 2008. The North American release date was expected to be announced on November 3rd, 2008; however, it was not. On November 13, Sony Ericsson announced that the phone would be available in North America on November 28, 2008 for $799 unlocked.
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