The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini – The Smallest Android?

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The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini – The Smallest Android?

Product leaks online are often enough to generate interest on a mobile phone which the makers can gauge right away.  There’s the Robyn Android handset circulating the rumor mill before the 2010 Mobile World Congress and true enough, it got confirmed with the announced Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 Mini.

As the name clearly indicates, it’s a mini version of the much awaited XPERIA X10 announced last November and has yet to be released.  At a glance the Mini looks like a real junior with a diminutive body measuring all of 83 x 50 x 16 mm and weighing 88 g.  This could make it the smallest Android smartphone in the market and should attract a wider market wanting a really convenient pocketable smartphone with all the features, never mind if they’re not as lofty as the X10’s superb features.

It certainly will appeal to a younger crowd as confirmed by its availability in six different colors of red, pink, lime, silver, pearl white and the more common black.  It should be available in the 2nd quarter starting April when the XPERIA X10 finally gets released under Vodafone UK.

Mini Features

As a junior version of the X10, its understandable that its feature set won’t hold up to daddy when compared with it, but taken on its own, the Mini is a competitively stylish and competent Android smartphone despite running the older Android 1.6 Cupcake with the Rachel/UX user interface on a less muscled Qualcomm MSM7227 processor clocked at 600 MHz.

The Mini is a quad band GSM/GPRS/EDGE phone on the 2G network for world wide roaming and a 3G phone on the dual band UMTS with HSDAP/HSUPA for high speed internet surfing.  It also has WiFi 802.11b/g for hotspot surfing and the usual complement of Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP and microUSB 2.0 for local data connectivity.  It also has SatNav functionality from an A-GPS receiver with Google Maps.

Their main obvious mini feature is a reduced screen size at a sub-par 2.5-inch TFT capacitive touchscreen display. It has QVGA resolution and 16 million colors, a gravity accelerometer for auto rotate viewing and an anti-scratch glass surface.

Its imaging comes with an above-average 5 megapixel autofocus camera with LED Flash, face/smile detection, geo tagging from its A-GPS receiver and VGA video recording at 30fps with video light. Entertainment gets the usual media players for popular audio and video files formats with TrackID music recognition, an FM stereo receiver with RDS. A2DP and 3.5mm headphone jack.

On the apps front, you get Google Search, Google Talk, Google Voice Search push email, IM and a web browser with Flash Support for YouTube.  You also get a document viewer for PDF and common MS Office files as well as Timescape and Mediascape.

Phone memory is a paltry 128 MB but you get microSD expandability of up to 16 GB.  The retail kit will include a 2 GB microSD card.  There’s also a standard lithium polymer battery the promises up to 4 hours of talk time in 2G and a standby time of up to 285 hours on single charge.

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