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Sony Ericsson XPERIA™ X10 introduces an open and integrated world of social media, communication and entertainment

XPERIA™ X10 is the flagship phone in a family of phones coming to market during the first half of 2010. The XPERIA™ X10 will be available in Q1 2010
New UX (user experience) platform lets consumers organise everything and discover more with the most open, human and intuitive user experience yet

With a 1GHz Snapdragon chip from Qualcomm, 4-inch capacitive touch display, an 8.1 megapixel camera, and the lovely Rachael Android UI, the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 will be a great 2010 entry into the Android market for Sony Ericsson.

As far as the unpolished UI goes, Sony Ericsson has already put some personal touches on there with Timescape and Mediascape, which aggregate all communication and media, respectively. While those features seem fantastic in theory, the early software build left questions as to just how seamless and smooth they truly are.

There are some things that definitely appear lacking with the X10 which can’t be blamed on the pre-production build though. For starters, there’s barely any internal memory, though an 8GB MicroSD card is included to remedy that. The big annoyance is the absence of multitouch features such as zoom or rotate. With such a wide touchscreen, it’s a shame to skip out on that.

By the time the phone is ready for stores, the Snapdragon chip, combined with a final build of the UI, should put the X10 among the fastest running phones on the market.

Size: 119 x 63 x 13 mm
Weight: 135 grams
Phone memory: Up to 1 GB
Memory card support: microSD™
Memory card included: 8 GB
Operating system: Google™ Android Donut, version 1.6
Processor: 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon™ QSD8250
Availability and versions

Networks
UMTS HSPA 900/1700/2100
GSM GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
UMTS HSPA 800/1900/2100
GSM GPRS/EDGE 850/900/1800/1900
Available in selected markets in Q1 2010
Colour

Sensuous Black
Luster White

New features to expect in devices coming out with Android 2.0:

Contacts and accounts

• Multiple accounts can be added to a device for email and contact synchronization, including Exchange accounts. (Handset manufacturers can choose whether to include Exchange support in their devices.)
• Developers can create sync adapters that provide synchronization with additional data sources.
• Quick Contact for Android provides instant access to a contact’s information and communication modes. For example, a user can tap a contact photo and select to call, SMS, or email the person. Other applications such as Email, Messaging, and Calendar can also reveal the Quick Contact widget when you touch a contact photo or status icon.

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HTC has announced their budget Android phone. This would make HTC’s fourth Android phone for this year and would put the phone into the low and mid-range phones for the market. There are no exact dates for launch in S.E.A but there have been news of the availability in Europe, namely Vodafone UK . Guess the South East Asian market is still too small for companies to decide to launch it in Singapore first.

Being a phone that was designed for the budget-conscious consumers, it does come with pretty standard hardware specifications:

• Qualcomm MSM7225 528MHz processor
• 512MB ROM
• 256MB RAM
• 2.8″ touchscreen LCD display (240 x 320)
• 900/2100MHz HSPA/UMTS
• Quad-band GSM/EDGE
• 3.5mm headset jack
• microSD memory card slot
• Wi-Fi connectivity
• Built-in GPS and digital compass
• Bluetooth 2.0 support
• 3.2-megapixel camera with autofocus

Having this phone aimed at the budget-conscious consumers, it does have noticeable differences. The HTC Tattoo no longer has a trackball navigation decice which HTC Dream, HTC Magic and HTC Hero has. Instead in its place,  is a 4 way navigation pad. Whether this new navigation pad will work out as well as a trackball, we will have to wait to see. It also follows HTC Hero in featuring a 3.5mm headset jack that was lacking in HTC Dream and HTC Magic.

The phone, compared to HTC Hero, comes with Google Android 1.6 (codenamed Donut) and Sense UI which HTC had previously rolled out on Hero. Google Android 1.6 is Google’s latest update to Android and HTC is quick to incorporate 1.6 into their new phone alongside Sense UI. Sense UI is HTC’s answer to a completely customized look for Android. It is HTC’s identify and mark on Android. It is similar to HTC’s TouchFlo 3D which are featured in HTC’s Windows Mobile phones.

Well with HTC making their mark on Android, this has given the company a headstart in the Android market. Will they be able to manage the current lead into 2010? Hopefully, HTC will be able to fulfil Google intial goal: to make an OS that makes cheap phones cheaper. So far, we have seen that the Android OS is capable of producing flagship phones like HTC Hero and also able to produce budget phones like HTC Tattoo. Watch out Windows Mobile, Android is coming for you.

New products from Apple Inc silently entered into the Apple store. They finally updated the old Macbook with a new polycarbonate uni-body plastic shell, on par with its current uni-body brother Macbook Pro. New built-in battery promising 7-hours of usage and new multi-touch technology trackpad adds value to this portable. Yet, the price remains at $1588 SGD.

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pxp2000

Not enough money for a PSP Go? Not to worry, the factories in China went all in to make a replica that is 99% PSP Go look-alike. However, you get what you pay for. For just USD $84, you will get a PXP-2000 that support most of the popular video codecs (RM, RMVB natively, AVI, WMV, ASF, MPG, MPEG, MPE, MP4, DAT, MOV, DAT). Besides that, it is also an emulator for gameboy and NES.

Storage wise, it has 2GB of on-board memory and a microSD slot so that’s plenty of storage for all the movies and games.

$84 for this or $250 for a real deal PSP Go? You decide.

More pictures and full specification after the break.

More replica products from China: http://forums.edmw.sg/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=50863

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