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declare to the world in early November last year, the Xperia X10 has been Sony Ericsson’s paper flagship device for a good few months at this time, and unfortunately the latest official word seems to confirm that the wait will be even longer. NTT DoCoMo has already stated it’ll launch the handset in Japan this April, and T-Mobile has at this time also gone official with an April timeframe for the X10’s German arrival. Guess we can consider that February 10 “expected launch” in the UK dead and buried by this point. It’s all rather lackluster in our eyes — we’ve seen HTC produce the devastatingly versatile HD2 and even the Nexus One in the time it’s taken Sony Ericsson to iron out bugs in a UI we suspected was too ambitious from the start. Let’s hope the final product is worth the wait, eh?

Xperia X10 officially headed to T-Mobile in Germany this April originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Considering the LG Pop’s milquetoast specs, the best thing going for it has to be its trick solar rear that’s capable of injecting three minutes of talk time for every eleven minutes of sunshine you pour into it. Problem is, the panel was an accessory that didn’t ship in the box — you had to buy it separately, and back at the Pop’s launch, it wasn’t available. That’s all been cleared up at this time with news out of LG’s German press office that the panel’s available for a stout €34.90 (about $49) on top of the phone’s €169 ($236) sticker — pricey, perhaps, but you figure you’ll make it up in power savings over the course of a few years’ use. Over the long term, all phones should have these suckers built in just for kicks, so let’s hope LG’s setting a precedent in this place.

LG GD510 Pop’s solar panel add-on finally ships originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:52:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

The CLIQ isn’t having all the Android over-the-air update fun today — and unlike Motorola’s little debacle, this upgrade looks like it’s in this place to stay. The myTouch 3G has started receiving what appears to be the tiniest of cute little updates — so tiny, in fact, that it fixes just one bug: a dodgy missed call indicator that wasn’t showing up consistently. The bottom line is that you can’t expect Android 2.0 or 2.1 in this place — you’ll still be at 1.6, and if you’re intentionally not answering your phone, you may have actually preferred the bug anyhow. Let us know how your updates go, folks.

T-Mobile myTouch 3G granted ultra-minor firmware update, too originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.