Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 first hands-on (with video!)
By Paul Miller 
posted September 2nd 2009 1:20PM
posted September 2nd 2009 1:20PM
Update: Video is after the break!
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Thats one solid piece of hardware!
yes it is...now all i want is for them to put this on AT&T and price it under 500$ im ditching my iphone 3G asap
compared to x1 it has.
-better bigger flush screen
-smoother and faster software
-better camera
-tv out
-no info on the faster cpu yet
-accelerometer
-vastly improved keyboard
-a bit uglier but more practical design and less weight
very very good. but i expected more. i prefer the samsung omnia pro with its 800mhz 3.5OLED screen and much cheaper price of 500euro
If anything this is gonna be an even bigger failure than the X1.
500 euros is the price of the Nokia N900 , which will hit the market next month, and by the time this old fashioned thing will be available it will have to fight for attention with HTC's snapdragon powered Leo, Archos media phone, and a slew of new models eager to elbow it into oblivion.
I have here 3 cell phones (dont ask me why, it's a long story) : an HTC Hero, a Nokia N97 and an HTC TouchHD which is nearly an year old, and I would'nt change any of those for this X2: none of them.
SE should just concentrate on bringing out the Idou/Satio if it wants to have a chance at survival; this X2 would have been good enough one year ago (maybe) , now it justs highlights the sorry state of this once glorious company.
My aging TyTn II(resistive) with SPB Mobile Shell gives me no issues whatsoever using my fingers.
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/825/tytn2.jpg
There's a pic, and as you can see by the sizeable icons, there is plenty of room for the finger to travel. With the hotspot area of a button on a resistive screen covering every available pixel, chances are pretty high when you press down with your finger you are hitting one of the hundreds of pixel-points that trigger the button's function. Works for me.
Essentially you don't need the stylus, but it's still there for old time's sake. :) They're redoing to code on a daily basis so don't let the UI sluggishness put you off. What sluggishness? That look when screen reorientation looks like it's done in "bullet-time."
Is this a joke??? What´s that clutter on the screen? Looks like some kind of jigsaw puzzle....
resistive for multimedia and internet = FAIL
Resistive is fine for the internet and multimedia.. Why does it seem that everyone associates resistive touchscreens with failure? I've had several devices with a resistive touch screen and have no issue using them and find that some can even be as sensitive as capacitive screens. Don't hate on something you don't know, that's immature
'Till the day you can use your finger for handwriting recognition then you'll see capacitive, so you sir = FAIL for failing to realize that. If you don't like the product, just breeze thru instead of wasting your keyboard battery typing nonsense
Resistive for internet, note taking and hand writing = WIN.
Capactive to me = FAIL, particularly during winter
Resistive is also higher resolution and produces much more vivid colours , as displayed by some of the new AMOLED resistive phones by Samsung.
Beastage, are you stupid? Resistive does not produce more vivid anything. The resistive layer lowers the quality and visibility of the screen. Also, screen resolution and the use of AMOLED are not dictated by the screen being resistive or capacitive, dumbass.
@iLoveApple
Woah, chill out dude, did you forget your medications or something? The guy made a simple mistake, you didn't have to be such a twat about correcting it.
capacitive wins whenever using your finger is more comfortable. Scrolling is definitely better on a capacitive screen. Virtual keyboards are 10,000x better on a capacitive screen. Handwriting is better on a resistive, so ask yourself if handwriting is actually important on a device this small... personally, I don't, but some might. Internet in general has been a much more pleasant experience for web browsing, as scrolling up and down pages is soo0o0o0o much better on capacitive. Also, pressing small links and small buttons can be done without a finger tip or stylus on capacitive, but not with resistive. The smaller the button or link, the finer the input has to be.
I prefer capacitive, but there are just certain things that resistive does better. At least until accurate capacitive styli become commonplace. Then it will be no contest :)
The reason resistive gets such a bad reputation is because we are yet to see a device that runs fluidly like the iPhone or the Pre using a resistive touch screen.
WM has not presented such a device, and Nokia isn't that fast either.
Slap the Pre or iPhone's touch algorithm, kinetic scrolling, and general smoothness with a good resistive screen, and you will forget that it is resistive.
Its all in the software implementation. And devices with resistive screens are not running OS's that have been refined enough for touch, meanwhile WebOS, iPhone OS, and Android are designed inside out for finger touch.
Hmm, it looks good, but not special or anything, I'll wait on judging this until I see a hands-on vid.
And everyone, here's the official ad (HD):
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqo3msjAY9A[/url]
Dammit, I keep forgetting you don't need URL tags here, if you're too lazy to copy paste the thing without the url tag at the end, here's it again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqo3msjAY9A
I tend to expect a video when I see any article that has the world 'Hands-On' on the same line......whether it's first, second, third, fourth, 100th hands-on...
I tend to believe there's something different in each iteration of the "hands-on" ...or is it me expecting too much?
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same old cpu? if so, no thanks :)
It isn't.
Thanks. Do you know which one is it and what frequency?
i think it was snapdragon 1000mhz
"Just found 2 Xperia 2 hands-on videos on Youtube courtesy of SE-First.com. Looks like the X2 has the same “crappy” chipset as the old one (and all HTC phones, the MSM72xx)."
If so, dead on arrival.
http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2009/09/02/sony-ericsson-xperia-2-hands-on-videos/
I don't know, there is no evidence what so ever to what cpu is being used, for good or for worse.
Still uses the same old Qualcomm MSM72xx cpu so automatic FAIL and DOA. You can't squeeze blood from the dead-rock that is Qualcomm.
This means the exact same video and screen lagginess ALL HTC/Qualcomm devices experience and will CONTINUE to experience.
Just compare it to the Acer m900 and even that has much better scrolling/panning performance.
I was one of the few that jumped on the X1, I like the idea of the panels but in reality they are just a fad, you use them the first couple weeks and never touch them again. I finally jumped on the TouchPro 2 with T-Mob.
Can we get a confirmation that this doesn't have an OLED screen?
I believe boygeniusreports said it was TFT.
2 hands-on video : http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2009/09/02/sony-ericsson-xperia-2-hands-on-videos/
Here's to hoping the keyboard doesnt crap out. My HTC TyTN II's keyboard currently has problems with the a,c,l,r, and Fn keys... :~(
Ouh, tht must rey suk.
You shoud get new smtphone.
I had the same problem with my TyTN II as well. The keyboard one of mine also lost its "clickyness." Another got random keyboard keypresses when it was closed. So far I'm on TyTN #4 thanks to the warranty/no thanks to carrier subsidies and contracts.
I held the X1 in my hands for a long time before letting go and deciding not to purchase it. The hardware felt great - the panels UI was interesting, but not good enough for me to lay down $800 - not to mention buggy and slow.
From the vids I have seen with the UI on the X2, I'd say that SE is headed down the same path. The mobile UI market is getting harder to compete with; apple, palm, google, bberry - I do not think that the SE hardware will ever equal fail, but the UI certainly could
Yo this guy missed Mariah Carey's call? Wtf.
Nah dude, Eminem had the phone @ the time
Now we all have her number, eh Nick?
http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_xperia_x2_gets_official_holds_no_surprises-news-1101.php
btw, gsmarena mentions an X2a. Hopefully this'll be coming to AT&T!
I saw zero lag as well. I also saw someone that doesn't know how to operate a touchscreen complain that it wasn't capacitive. Yeah, that must be why you couldn't get it to respond. The rep didn't seem to have any problem with it and he was looking at it upside down.
Too gimmicky, what is their target market btw? Highschoolers?
And not to mention about the lag too.
The only thing that could make a Sony phone worse is putting Windows Mobile on it. Smart move Sony....
X2? When's the X1 coming out?
The GUI of the homescreen is just plain annoying. Animation of a series of unrelated boxes in the background? How does that add to the user experience besides slowing down the menu system, and adding distractions?
Clean that up a little, please. OW, that would be the first of the Sony programs to hit the trash can if I had this phone. There are much better choices for homescreens already available from Handago.
Awesome phone! Its too bad the "reviewer" decided it was a POS even before seeing it.
Not a Sony fan but nice! I really like the Interface with those block things.
*Wonders if XDA can port the interface to the TP2.* :p
Hmm... I had an X1 for about a week before selling it. With such great offerings from HTC, is there really much point?
Looks like the cameraman (Mr. Miller?) seems to have resistive screen-incompatible fingers. Either that or the phone only responds to the rep's fingers. ... DNA-controlled phone? Nice.
Ugh... disregarding what I said, I can't get over how stupid "snacking" sounds. "Snacking on information," "snaking on messages," "messages to snack..."
Did Sony come up with that? And here I thought "Sony Bean" was bad.