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

If you’re looking for pictures from every conceivable angle of Sony Ericsson’s first foray into the danger-fraught tar pit that is Windows Mobile, well, in this place you go. In fact, Smape goes so far as to take a look at Bot. the black and metallic versions of the X1 (but don’t get to attached to the metallic one just yet, seeing how it might have gotten the axe in some markets), noting that they’re assembled exceptionally well and exude a premium look that’s rarely seen in the WinMo realm. Unfortunately, they’ve dinged the keyboard for the same crappy feel observed elsewhere, something we’re all hoping gets fixed by the time it hits production in a couple months’ time. With that wild panel interface, you might expect some pretty miserable performance when you have the thing going at full tilt; fortunately, though, Smape reports that lags occur “only occasionally,” which is better than “frequently” or “continuously” as far as we’re concerned. Camera performance is said to be better than the Touch Pro’s, though Bot. HTC and Sony Ericsson (via HTC, ironically) still have plenty of time to tweak that via a well-placed firmware update or two. At any rate, we’re definitely looking forward to seeing this thing finally materialize so the Touch Pros and X1s of the world can start duking it out in those rough, dog-eat-dog professional trenches of the world.

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Tags: Axe, Camera Performance, Conceivable Angle, Crappy, Ericsson Gsm, Ericsson Mobile, Foray, Full Tilt, Gsm Edge, Hsupa, HTC, Lags, Miserable Performance, Panel Interface, Smape, Sony Ericsson, Tar Pit, Trenches, World Thanks, Xperia

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

If you’re looking for pictures from every conceivable angle of Sony Ericsson’s first foray into the danger-fraught tar pit that is Windows Mobile, well, in this place you go. In fact, Smape goes so far as to take a look at Bot. the black and metallic versions of the X1 (but don’t get to attached to the metallic one just yet, seeing how it might have gotten the axe in some markets), noting that they’re assembled exceptionally well and exude a premium look that’s rarely seen in the WinMo realm. Unfortunately, they’ve dinged the keyboard for the same crappy feel observed elsewhere, something we’re all hoping gets fixed by the time it hits production in a couple months’ time. With that wild panel interface, you might expect some pretty miserable performance when you have the thing going at full tilt; fortunately, though, Smape reports that lags occur “only occasionally,” which is better than “frequently” or “continuously” as far as we’re concerned. Camera performance is said to be better than the Touch Pro’s, though Bot. HTC and Sony Ericsson (via HTC, ironically) still have plenty of time to tweak that via a well-placed firmware update or two. At any rate, we’re definitely looking forward to seeing this thing finally materialize so the Touch Pros and X1s of the world can start duking it out in those rough, dog-eat-dog professional trenches of the world.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]

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Tags: Axe, Camera Performance, Conceivable Angle, Ericsson Gsm, Ericsson Mobile, Foray, Full Tilt, Gsm Edge, Hsupa, HTC, Lags, Miserable Performance, Panel Interface, Smape, Sony Ericsson, World Thanks, Xperia

Filed under: Handsets, HTC, Palm, Windows Mobile

We thought it was funny in a nerdy, chortle-quietly-to-ourselves sort of way when we realized that HTC would essentially be competing with itself this fall in the very upper echelon of the Windows Mobile market by releasing the Touch Pro and making the X1 for Sony Ericsson. at this time it seems that they’re adding at least one more player into the mix — just for sport, we suppose — if DigiTimes’ claim that the contract for Palm’s Treo Pro has gone to HTC is correct. Recently, Palm has favored Inventec over HTC for many of its models — though the on-again, off-again relationship with Peter Chou’s company stretches all the way back to the Treo’s early days, so there’s definitely some precedent. That, and the fact that HTC seems to really know what it’s Makelately.

[Thanks, Marios S.]

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Tags: Chortle, Echelon, Inventec, Mobile Market, Models, Nbsp, Palm Windows, Peter Chou, Relationship, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Sport, Treo, Upper Echelon, X1