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Smartphone Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 based on Android operating system has successfully been tested in the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

Smartphone Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 (Xperia X3, Rachael) is the first Android-phone of the Swedish-Japanese company. In addition, it is the first of Sony Ericsson smartphones based on Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon processor with 1 GHz. Judging by the stated support networks EDGE 850/1900 MHz and WCDMA Band I, IV, VIII (900/1700/2100 MHz), its appearance is to be expected in the retail shops of mobile operator T-Mobile. There is no official date of release reported. According to one source, XPERIA X10 goes on sale in February 2010, another source believes that the implementation of the device will start a month earlier on January 18.

Specifications of the smartphone include a 4-inch capacitive touch display, protected from scratches, with a resolution of 480×854 point, the GPS chipset, 8,1-megapixel camera with autofocus, LED-flash, geo tagging support and a range of features to improve the quality of photography, Bluetooth 2.1 and WiFi b / g modules, 1 GB of internal memory plus a slot for MicroSD memory cards. The device runs on Android 1.6 OS (Donut).

Sony Ericsson has today officially unveiled two environmentally friendly phones, Elm and Hazel.

The two new phones Sony Ericsson Elm and Hazel are included in the green series Greenheart. Devices of this series are characterized by a high content of recycled products, and have included charger with reduced power consumption.

Both phones work in quad networks GSM / GPRS / EDGE and dual-band HSPA (2100/900 MHz), support of the HD Voice technology (with audio codec AMR-WB) and tight integration with such services MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Another interesting feature of the phones is the duplication of personal information on the company’s website that allows you to be sure of its safety in case of loss of staff.

Except for the size display (2.2 inches by 2.6 inches and Elm from Hazel, the QVGA resolution), the specification of the phones is the same, including support for GPS-navigation and Wi-Fi-networks, 5-megapixel camera with autofocus, an accelerometer, slot for microSD memory cards, Bluetooth module, microUSB port, and SensMe, TrackID and MegaBass multimedia features.

The Sony Ericsson Elm dressed in black and pink package (Metal Black, Pearly Rose) will appear on sale in the first quarter of 2010, and Sony Ericsson Hazel will slide in the second quarter of 2010 in black and red color (Superior Black, Passionate Rouge).

It seems that recently problems do not leave the Sony Ericsson company.

After the suspension of the implementation of the smartphone Sony Ericsson Satio, the Swedish-Japanese company will probably need to give up the hope to take opportunity of Christmas shopping, and somehow fill the financial gap through the implementation of XPERIA X2 on Christmas Eve.

According to the website of the mobile operator Vodafone, smartphone XPERIA X2 will appear in the mobile market after the New Year in January, the month not quite favorable for sales. After the XPERIA X2 will be available in the market, the sales of Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 will start. Though, it looks like this will also happen later than the scheduled day. First quarter of the year is not the best time for sales. This may be another miscalculation of the management team of Sony Ericsson.

Several major retailers in Europe have suspended sales of the new touch smartphone in connection with a large number of returns due to malfunction in the software.

Touch smartphone Satio, so cordially welcomed by fans of the brand and fans of mobile devices, has been withdrawn from sale by the two major European retail chains selling electronics. According to the Carphone Warehouse and Phones 4U companies, they actually stopped selling touchscreen smartphones Satio in connection with a large number of negative reviews and returns, based on the instability of software of the new device.

According to the official announcement of the company, the reason for failure lies in the software, which may be caused by separate applications running on the phone. This failure leads to immediate shutdown of the smartphone, and all temporal information that the user did not have time to save disappears. Representatives of Sony Ericsson have already responded to this incident, claiming that defects will be corrected by Christmas, and everyone who has already run into the problem, will be offered a new phone and a small compensation for the inconvenience.

Previously, there were rumours that Sony Ericsson’s X1 would get an update to Windows Mobile 6.5 after a supposed leaked ROM hit xda-developers. Well, sources close to the matter are apparently dashing those hopes, saying that no official update is actually in the works. Considering the X1 already has a customized user interface, you aren’t really missing out on the facelift, and Marketplace is coming to 6.1 anyway, so the only substantial feature X1 owners won’t be enjoying is My Phone. Big loss? Not really.

Boy, we sure do love our early glimpses of pre-release hardware, and today we have not one, but two sources of purported pictures of the Sony Ericsson Kurara. Touted as a sibling to the Satio, the Kurara is mooted to have a 3.5-inch AMOLED touch-sensitive screen, 8.1 megapixel camera and, wait for it, 720p video recording. The image above seems to confirm this with a big “HD” inscription next to the camera lens, but that label is missing in the gallery below. We’ll just put that inconsistency down to the extremely early samples on show, and start getting all frothed up in excitement over the possible UX inclusion on this Symbian S60 device when it starts selling in the first half of 2010.

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 has been officially announced! Alongside the super-cool device, the company also unveiled its UX open platform.

Here’s the X10 specs rundown:

Quad-band GSM/EDGE connectivity – 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, plus tri/quad-band HSPA 900/1700/2100 (T-Mobile USA?) or 800/850/1900/2100 MHz

4-inch WVGA (480×854 pixels) capacitive touchscreen

8.1-megapixel auto-focus camera with an array of camera technologies including touch focus, face recognition, smile detection, image and video stabilizer, geo-tagging. Where’s flash???

1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8250 CPU!

GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3.5mm audio jack

1GB of internal memory, plus a microSD memory card slot (8GB card should come in box)

Google apps pre-loaded

Android 1.6 Donut – I’m guessing it will be upgradable to 2.0 Eclair

Size: 119×63×13 mm, weight: 135 grams

Colors: Sensuous Black and Luster White

In a nutshell, pretty impressive first Android phone from Sony Ericsson.

As for the mentioned UX platform, it is developed not for the X10, only, but for the whole series which will be launched in the first half of 2010. Included with UX are two signature apps Timescape and Mediascape, which allow users to manage their social networking activities (Timescape), and browse all the media, both on the phone and on the Internet (Mediascape).

And that’s almost it. Plus we have a video to share which Sony Ericsson kindly uploaded to YouTube. It follows after the jump. Enjoy!