Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro Review by ThatSnazzyiPhoneGuy By Snazzy Labs

This is coin, that's nasty, iPhone guy, and this is going to be the full review of the Sony Ericsson Xperia x10 mini pro by Sony Ericsson. Now this is going to be a pretty quick and fast-paced review. So put your listening ears on, because I do have to go and return this phone in about 35 minutes. So let's go. This is the Sony execs and Xperia x10 mini pro. What it includes is headphones, which are FM, radio, capable a power, brick, a USB charger and then a manual and that's about it.

That's all that's included with the phone. Now the phone will run you 499 US dollars of retail unlocked. You can find it on various online retailers for a little less about 340. However, it still is pretty up there, but that is due to the fact that it is unlocked and not subsidized by your carrier. There are a few carriers around the world that will subsidize this phone for you, I, don't think there's any in the u.

s. , namely T-Mobile and AT&T, because it is an HS DPA and GSM capable phone, but let's get into it and let's review these Sony Ericsson Xperia x10 mini pro now the difference between the mini pro and the mini is the slide-out QWERTY keyboard which we'll get to in a minute. But it is well worth your extra $100. Now the phone itself is running Android 1.6. You know I'm kind of disappointed by that, because it feels like there's a general lag Enos to the OS and that's not because it's running Android 1.6, but that's because it's skinned heavily by Sony Ericsson's UI. It's not bad, but I don't feel like it's quite there.

I feel like it could have a few improvements, and you know, while it is a good phone and still does pretty well in performance, you know it is a little laggy her than you would hope, and it's not due to the processor, because the processor is you know it's 600 megahertz, it's not the fastest one out there, but it's not by no means a slow processor. I just feel like the OS isn't quite there because it runs games pretty well, and that is my other point is when you can find games that work due to the fact that it does run Android 1.6 many of the newer games do not support the phone, and you will get errors, and you will get all this pretty ugly stuff. So you will want to note that before you buy, the phone is that it is not on the current Android OS, and it's not even 22.0 yet, so you will find that you're not running a lot of apps that you would like. So that's definitely one thing to know now. If we go around the phone here a little, we will discover a few things.

This is a microUSB port on the side and that's where it charges off spot Sony. Ericsson has always put stuff in a weird bizarre place to charge. I would have preferred the bottom, but on the bottom you have a lanyard strap, and then you have a microphone on the side. You have the camera button, and then you have the little nub in the phone which allows you to pop off the back cover and access the battery, the SIM card slot and the micro SD card. And then you have the volume here with the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack on the top, which means it will fit pretty much every headphone. And then you have the sleep/wake button.

Now it does come with a 2, gigabyte micro SD card, and that is necessary because it only comes with a near 128 megabytes of internal memory. However, if 2 gigabytes isn't quite enough for you, that's fine, because it is expandable to up to 16 gigabytes. Now, on the back here, you'll see the speaker grill these Sony, Ericsson and Xperia and graving's, and then you'll find the 5 megapixel camera with the LED flash. Now let me talk about the camera. I am hugely impressed with it, I'll throw in a few pictures here at the end, just to show you how good they are.

I'm, really appalled by the quality of these Sony Ericsson, Opera, x10 mini pros, capable to excuse me capability to shoot photos. It does really well in low-light solutions, which is pretty unusual for camera phones due to the smaller camera sensors. Now the Xperia Z's you can pretty much tell is a little bigger than most smartphones and this results in better quality pictures, even though it is only quote-unquote, 5 megapixels. It is better than a lot of other smartphones I've tried, including the Droid, the Droid X and the Samsung Captivate. So you know it is a pretty remarkable camera.

Now, when you get to shooting video, that's another story, it only shoots VGA at 30 frames, a second, the Lighting's, really poor, and I just think it's a mediocre video camera. So if you're looking a video, the Sony Xperia x10 mini pro, is definitely not for you, but if you're a point-and-shoot kind of person, you know an amateur photographer that wants a camera on their phone. This is one of the best on the market, so the camera mode is 5 megapixels. It shoots in 2560 by 1920 pixels and has an autofocus which is really nice, and then it has the LED flash. So the camera on this phone is really superb.

If you're taking shots, if you're taking video and not the best, so let's get to the QWERTY keyboard. This is without a doubt why this phone shines. It is a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and you will know that the hinge is absolutely incredible. That's one thing: I've noted with Sony. Ericsson phones is the know the general build quality of these phones is just superior to pretty much any other brand on the market, they're better than HTC phones, they're, pretty much on par with the Apple iPhone, and they're far and above Samsung phones.

So you know the build quality is just really solid on these devices, and you don't feel like it's going to fall apart any time soon, which means that the hinge on this is really nice. It pops in and out really quickly and does have kind of a locking feel to it. Now, if you do know the care, excuse me, the keyboard right here is pretty small due to the phone small, tiny form factor now I have monstrous thumbs, and it was a little weird to type on this phone at first. But after a while, after about the two weeks that I've had this phone for review, I've gotten really accustomed to it. In fact, I'm faster than I am on my iPhone, and my accuracy is far and above any other phone I've ever used.

I, don't know what it is about this keyboard, but I'm just faster at it than any other keyboard. It probably is the fact that they have that are each individual keys, that they are a little bubbled and that they are really firmed press. So you do get a really nice response on the key itself. They're not at all mushy, and you do feel like you're, actually touching a button which helps you keep up speed. Now there are all the letters if you want to access numbers and a few symbols, you simply hold or press this blue key and then select the desired one you want and then for symbols.

You simply click this, and you'll have a list of emoticons and other symbols that aren't listed on the keyboard, also good for international texting as there are. Oh sorry, as there are international characters available now. One thing to note about the keyboard that I found pretty unusual is that it is it's really well. Software oriented I feel like a lot of keyboards are like afterthoughts on a lot of smartphones nowadays, and they're just thrown in there for kicks and giggles, not the Opera. It's really kind of the heart and focus of this phone.

It just does things that you'll know that you know the iPhone do I mean that's a bad generalization, because I think it is better than the iPhone keyboard, but it is really just if you hold the shift. Furthermore, it only does that, while you hold it, if you would press it once it does it one time, and if you double tap it is does it multiple times. Furthermore, it's just a really intuitive keyboard that it just kind of works. You don't have to learn how to use it. It just does what you want it to do, and that's good, because the on-screen keyboard is absolutely atrocious due to the small 2.5 5 inch LCD. So ok, due to the small 2.5 5 inch display, it is a little lousy on the individual, on-screen keyboard, and we'll get to that here in a minute, we'll open up a new composition, as you can see, it does take over the entire screen, and it just does kind of a lousy job. This is a review say hello, so I will say that with the Sony, Xperia x10 mini Pro and all Sony Ericsson phones, the t9 dictionaries are actually perfect.

You don't have to teach the phones a lot of words, which is pretty nice, but I felt like it. Just there was a lot of lag Enos to this to the display and when you're typing fast is really inconvenient. So that's one thing to know, however, when you do press pretty much anything a keyboard oriented on the screen, you will get a vibe Horus style you'll get a vibration back, so you know I'm trying to think of the proper terminology for that, but on the screen, when you're typing, you will get an excuse me, you will get a kind of feedback in that regard. However, it doesn't work on the keyboard, so, let's see the accelerometer as with any other phone, there is an accelerometer inside the device. The accelerometer isn't quite as touchy as some AI devices out on the market.

However, it is really pretty good. I was impressed by the overall sensitivity of the accelerometer and a lot of accelerometer oriented games. Now the phone itself features 2.1 Bluetooth, which I got a say is absolutely awesome. Historically, I've never been a fan of Bluetooth because it allows you to connect it's not very fast. It's really low quality when you're streaming, audio, and I just was not a fan of it.

Now the Sony Xperia kind of changed my mind on Bluetooth and it maybe to the fact that I've been using iPhones for the last four years and iPhones are horrible. With Bluetooth management. The Sony Ericsson Xperia x10 mini pro connected to my pioneer in car in ? stereo system, without a problem, and that's really unusual because I'd have to do it every time manually on the iPhone and take forever when I got in the car turned the car on it automatically connected to my phone, which I was hugely impressed with. So Bluetooth is awesome on this phone. Now, let's get to the Wi-Fi and the 3G capability, it is 3G capable it is HS DPA capable at let's see, 900 2100, 850 and 1900 and 2100 bands.

So it is pretty much for any 3G network. It will work, it will. Work on T-Mobile will work on AT&T as it is an unlocked phone. It pretty much works on every care carrier on the work in the world that supports 3G and is GSM oriented. However, there is Wi-Fi onboard as well.

If you want a little faster data speeds, it is 802 11, B, / G. So while it is not incapable, it does a pretty good job of managing Wi-Fi stuff, it isn't quite as fast taking data down as I would hope. It's definitely not as fast as my iPad, and not quite as fast as my iPhone, so I didn't notice that there was a little laggy Jacinda ability for it to download and transmit content, Io Wi-Fi, but 3G speed or pretty fast, and I'm. Pretty fascinated and happy with those. Now the touchscreen itself is capacitive, I've, never been a fan of resistive touchscreens and pretty much refused to use them.

I'm, not sure why manufacturers still put them in devices. We just got a Samsung sunburst in the family, and while it is a pretty nice little very light phone, it is a resistive touchscreen, and it just is awful. So this features a capacitive touch screen, and it's just really nice. As you will know, there are these three silver buttons on the bottom. These are stock with pretty much Android phone any android phone, but you will know that they are physical, Hardware buttons, I've noticed a lot of iPhones.

Excuse me now, I thought a lot of Android phones and smartphones have been moving to these capacitive touchscreen touch, resistant buttons, and I've never been a fan of those because what you're typing, and you bump on and hit it. It's a lot harder to bump a button that it is to bump a touchscreen. So that's one thing to note, and I really do like the buttons I feel like they could have done been done a little better when you're in the landscape orientation, this one's a little uncomfortable to reach, and it feels just a little too small. But you know the batteries are better than a touchscreen oriented touch resistance display. What am I saying? I? Don't really know: okay, um.

We talked about the camera. We talked about the let's talk about the radio um. It is stereo FM capable, but it only is capable with the inline headphones which come with the Sony Xperia x10 mini pro now the headphones themselves aren't shabby they're, not bad, they produce a decent sound. Are they great? No, but they are better than your average bundle. Throwing they're, definitely better with excuse me they're, definitely better than the Apple in earbuds, and they do have ear gels with an extra set.

So the Sony, Ericsson headphones, are pretty good, and you will need those to use the FM capabilities on the phone, but on that phone and on the headset it also does have an inline mic and control system. So you can kind of do a few things that the iPhone is capable of. However, you're not limited to those headphones, because it is a 3.5 millimeter, headphone jack, so it will support any headphone half there on the market, and it does a superb job at doing so. So that is what shines on that phone and let's go to the browser. The browser is absolutely great.

Is it an iPhone? No but I feel like it's a lot better than most phones, and it's probably due to the fact that it's running and right now it is a lot better than you know. The cheesy browsers that come on. You know the phones that are an afterthought. The browser was definitely one of the main focuses on this phone, and it does a really superb job. Is it the best browser out there on the market? No, but I feel that that's probably due to the fact that the screen is 2.5 5 inches you can zoom in. There is no multi-touch gestures, but that's pretty much something that's not available on most Android phones.

You can go full screen and select where, on the page, you want to go. That's a very nifty little feature that I've pretty much fallen in love with, and then there is basic navigation here with bookmarks refresh list, but did the multiple pages and a few other cool things like that? The battery is where things go downhill, it features, I shouldn't say it features. It has a 900 William hour. Excuse me 980 William hour battery, which is pretty mediocre. The processor inside here is 600 megahertz, it's a Qualcomm MSM 70 to 27, which is not the most resource, hogging processor, but it is one of the bigger ones.

This is a smartphone, it's not some cheap dinky little phone that doesn't need a big battery. While the battery is removable, it feels like it was just an afterthought by Sony and was not a focus on the phone now I do understand. The phone does have its small form factor due to the fact that the battery is tiny, but I feel like they could have put a little more oomph in it, because standby I was getting just over a day. That is waking up, unplugging it and not touching it. I barely got more than a day and then, in terms of actual usage, you get pretty much no run out of this bad boy.

While it is replaceable, I, don't feel like I should have to replace my battery midday with average use. I was getting about 7 hours and with heavy use. I was getting about 2 and a half to 3 hours, so the battery life is absolutely atrocious. On this, as you can see the same curve, it's really crooked, and that's because I have my micro-sim in here. It worked without any complaints whatsoever.

You do kind of have to jury-rig it and shimmy it in there perfectly, but it worked fine and that's what I've been using with the phone and then right here you'll find that there is the 2 gigabyte. I thought: I'd lost it for a minute to 2 gigabytes, micros card, and that does a pretty good job at maintaining memory on the device for storage and music and apps and a bunch of other stuff. However, this is expandable to 16 gigabytes. So we talked about video. We talked about everything else.

We've talked about the radio in the browser. It is pretty solid phone all around do I think that it's worth $500 no I don't, but that is you know an unlocked phone, it's not a subsidized price, you buy it and that's your phone, and you don't have to do anything with any carrier. So I feel like it is worth the subsidized priced on your carrier. You know they range about 149 bucks. So is it better than an iPhone? No, but it kind of depends on what you want if you're an avid Dexter.

Source : Snazzy Labs