With a captivating 4” TFT touchscreen display and an impressive Qualcomm QSD8520 1GHz processor, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, with an 8-megapixel camera and a running interface so smooth it could give Apple’s iPhone 4 a run for its money, is, simply put, worth your money after all. There’s one setback though, as the X10 was initially launched with Android OS 1.6—quite a frustration when, obviously, most websites run their videos on Flash Player, which only higher OS versions of the Google powered operating system are capable of.
And while SE took a step further by offering free updates to all their Xperia handsets, the initial roll-out, which took place in the first weeks of November 2010, made the Nordic countries and the rest of Europe beat everyone else to the punch as the very first few to experience the Android OS 2.1 update, leaving the rest of the world—from the US to the rest of Asia—to drool for weeks while viral Youtube videos of zealous SE Xperia X10 patrons showed off their updated SE Xperia X10i smartphones.
Not really sure how the SE giant does their business processes, but in an era when Youtube video clips—both mundane and bizarre—spread like wildfire, an all-out roll-out would have made a positive impact to SE’s overall appeal, not to mention that they didn’t settle with Android OS 2.2, which, by the way, has already been released out in the market way before SE finalized the much-awaited yet painfully sluggish release of their OS 2.1 update.