The word compact has taken on a whole new meaning with the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini. It measures just 83 x 50 x 16mm and weighs 88 grams as a featherweight. This makes the X10 Mini one of the smallest mass-produced mobile phones ever! The device features a digital camera, built-in accelerometer and FM radio and comes in a color palette that includes red and lime green. There’s full web connectivity and social media apps, the X10 Mini even won the Red Dot award for brilliant design!
The Xperia X10 Mini runs on the Android UX interface which has been tweaked a bit for use on the 2.55 inch QVGA display which I might add renders over 16.7 million colors perfectly thankfully the UX interface brings with it the TimeScape function. TimeScape gathers all your Facebook messages, missed calls, tweets and status updates in one convenient location for a complete overview of your various communications, it also allows you to manage your social media accounts; updating their status and making tweets. To extend the communication capabilities of the devices, it has full email integration, allowing account synchronization, giving you the ability to check your inbox and reply to messages wherever you are – convenient!
With the Android operating system, a variety of Google applications are available, applications that include Google Talk, Google Maps, YouTube and
G-mail. The platform also comes with Android Market, which offers a variety of apps you can download and install on your own X10 Mini, and Google search, which can be useful for tracking music and video information.
The Sony Ericsson X10 Mini comes well equipped with wireless connectivity; Wi Fi and Turbo 3G connections are built in for fast connectivity and combined with the intuitive WebKit browser offer a very responsive browsing experience, Bluetooth connectivity is available for data transfer between compatible devices and the use of wireless headphones as well. , navigation services have been pre-installed; WisePilot and Google Maps have proven useful in this field along with built-in aGPS.
The phone’s digital camera has a 5-megapixel lens and comes complete with photo flash and autofocus; there is also a geotagging feature for image location. The camera can handle video capture quite well at 30fps at 640 x 480 pixel resolutions and playback looks fantastic on the 16.7 million color TFT display too! The music player manages your songs quite well; its interface handles commands very well.
To wrap up this review, with the Xperia X10 Mini, Sony Ericsson packs as much smartphone technology as possible into its tiny frame without affecting the phone’s performance; They have done it with ease. The X10 Mini has email and social media integration, a decent digital camera and a good web browser, Sony Ericsson have hit the nail on the head with this model and with the Xperia X10 Mini Pro by their side they might have the edge over the competition immediate; phones like the HTC HD Mini and the Motorola Milestone.
