Comments on: Big Disappointment Or No Biggie: Xperia X10 Launching With Android 1.6

By: Jeanne

Jeanne — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 06:03:04 +0000

If I buy 1.6 now, how can I upgrade to 2.1? do i have to buy a new one?,

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:06:09 +0000

Doesn’t make any difference to me if it’s Android 1.6, 2.0 or 2.1. Currently have a T-Mobile G1 on 1.6 and it runs well, the X10 is much faster, much bigger and hopefully much better, really cannot wait and will be getting as soon as my current contract finishes! £35 a month, £18 for phone, 1200 mins, unlimited texts, unlimited internet, 8GB memory card, sounds like a fantastic deal to me! :)

By: Raymond

Raymond — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:51:17 +0000

My only question that I still can’t get answered is if you can get rid of that horrible blue background. And if the X10 uses the same camera as the Vivaz then why isn’t 720p recording enabled on the X10. I thought Ericsson wanted to change their reputation this go round.

By: lincoln

lincoln — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:30:47 +0000

Ok so I ave the cliq, cool phone but the os is 1.5 :-( I have tmobile witch they have good service, and decent pricing, but there us phone selec is garbage. I agree that the normal cattle doesn’t care about there os cuz the ibitch is soooooo cool.(choking on vomit) it would be nice for tmobile us to make a good dec about getting us a good phone. Sory back to the topic I would love a X10, but yea Se doesn’t hold too much weight with me, and 1.6 come on why not give us the 2x, this phone will retail for over 500 without a contract, and we have no garuntee the os will ever be updated. It is a bitch ass move and I for one will never purchase another so called revolutionary phone(moto blur is a joke) all the things it does are pretty much available in the app store. I am a phone junkie and would love to sport the mighty droid! But again tmobile decided that the cliq was a better route, so I for one will wait til someone dazzles me with a mighty great product.

By: Rauk

Rauk — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:25:08 +0000

From the Sony Ericsson dev blog.

“X10 will launch with Android 1.6 and it will be possible to upgrade to a later Android release as part of upgrading the whole UXP. I can´t be explicit about what version nor exact timing at this time and therefore it’s difficult for me to discuss the details on which of the 2.1 capabilities that will be leveraged in the upgrade. This is as we are enhancing the product with a different approach using our UXP layer. I understand your frustration as you have reference points in the market and thus your views of what we should support.”

By: Cybersedan

Cybersedan — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:01:24 +0000

@Zapote21

Very good point, I guess we geek out in here about specs and OS versions because well, most of us are geeks, but at the end of the day the average buyer could care less how much RAM/ROM a phone has or whether the processor is snapdragon, as long as it works fine and wows them now and then.

I’m still telling people about Nexus one, I’m amazed the amount of people who say to me “what’s that”, while most of us here knew a month or more before it came out.

By: Zapote21

Zapote21 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:34:35 +0000

You people realize that only the geeks actually care? My wife has a MT3G and could care less what she is running. I rooted it, put Cyanogen and a theme on it and she could care less… All she wants is for it to look good and work.
Now, I on the other hand, I do care, but the vast majority of people are sheep and dont care. Hence the popularity of the Icrap… I mean Iphone…

By: Zircon

Zircon — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:55:48 +0000

I wouldn’t mine running 1.6 for a short time, however, as a SE phone user, i know for sure that Sony-Ericsson is abandoning their products quite fast.
So, they are releasing an already outdated phone and they promising us they will update it to current version. It will happen by the time everybody else will be running 3.x and i don’t expect SE to also update to that version.

I had toughts on getting a X10 but I’ll probably aquire a HTC or Samsung.

By: Tovachea Nealy

Tovachea Nealy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:41:45 +0000

no i didn’t get raped that was my so called friend who put that up there i did not get raped seriously u suck dalton

By: Tovachea Nealy

Tovachea Nealy — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:38:00 +0000

this guy just tried to rape me!

By: pie-eater

pie-eater — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:25:33 +0000

Crying myself to sleep as my Hero is still running 1.5, I miss well-working Bluetooth, FLAC support, some apps that require 1.6 or higher and more speed. I have Sense UI, so it’s not all bad. And two-fingered zooming is also available on my Hero so no problems there.

By: G

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:18:58 +0000

They have the specks and the time before launch, why not upgrade the phones before 2H 2010??

By: Abrown

Abrown — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:53:54 +0000

I think it definitely matters when it come to OS. I mean when buying a new computer would you want to buy one with Windows XP or Windows 7? Yeah I know a lot of people hated Vista and clung to XP but thats a different story. I personally would want the latest OS on my NEW device. Now it kind of sucks that Google is having a hard time making a standard when it comes to issuing the latest OS and figuring out upgrade paths for existing hardware. Hopefully they’ll figure out a system that works better than what they’ve got going on right now.

Hey I’ve got a computer with a quad core 3GHZ processor; it’s Blu-Ray capable; has an OLED monitor, 1 TB hard drive, and a Nvidia GeForce GTX 295…and certified Windows XP! Any takers?

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:49:40 +0000

It all depends on what kind of magic SE has done to 1.6.

I wont decide til Ive seen a couple of reviews.

By: Matt - London

Matt - London — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:32:15 +0000

Its taken too long for this phone to come out. Im going to wait until April as Im hoping the wait means a really good build.