Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 (black, unlocked)

Pros: - Panel concept
- very good and responsive keyboard
- great screen (800x480)
- solid and firm design
- great Opera web browsing experience
- decent FM radio reception

Cons: - terrible(!!!) loudspeaker. It would be a shame to find such a loudpeaker even on a cheap FM receiver!
- a cheap and plastic feeling of the front control buttons below the screen
- SW bugs
- unbelievably cheap and badly designed delivery box

Summary: Compering to Nokia top models, for example Luna 8600, which is not their top model phone, this Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 phone delivery case seems rather cheap and badly designed. Like you didn't just bought the SE top smartphone model?! There is no etui nor screen cleaner delivered with it like they use to deliver with P900. No cradle. Just a USB cable aimed for charging and PC communication ... Dissapointed.

The loadspeaker gives out a very thin and week sound! There is only one louspeaker installed on this phone and it is positioned on the lower left lateral side of the phone, so as a right handed person you can easily cover it and completely deafen the sound going out from this phone. I had a chance to hear the Nokia E71 phone ringing with it's default NokiaTune ringtone - it's fantastic!! That can be called a loadspeaker. And if I'm write, there were two of them on the phone. And the phone is half the price of the SE X1. Again - dissapointed.

The control buttons on the front side feel and look a bit cheap in reality. By pressing the five direction navigation button you can avoid loud plastic clicks.

There are a lot of SW bugs. I haven't played with the phone so much, but I've already found several bugs: you can't control the ringing sound volume with marked phone icon - you should do it with the earphone icon. But it's completely reverse when you are setting the ringtone! You can't see the video files from video player application. Instead, you have to start the video from file manager ...

As I've expected a lot from this top SE smartphone model with an extremely high price, I have to admit that I'm neither happy with nor completely dissapointed. Because of that I've insisted on it's bad sides in this review. Those are my first impressions after using this phone for first 15 days.

Updated on Mar 11, 2009

And yes, the battery isn't so good as I've expected. It drains out after two days of rear use with very short several calls ... even the FM radio listening drains the battery out vary fast ...