I think once you own a phone, you get attached to it, and if you are an optimist, probably you see the positive side of it and just ignore the negative sides so much so that even you may not see what are the issues and shortcomings in the phone are.
I have purchased Xperia X10 a couple of month ago. I am in love with this phone and enjoying it's feature and in overall experience I can say that it is the best phone i owned till date (earlier i had Nokia E65, Nokia 5800 xpressmusic, Nokia N82 and a few other before purchasing this phone).
Still, to be frank, there are some shortcomings and issues which one generally should not expect from such an expensive and high-end phone (and these shortcomings are going to be remained even if you upgrade it to you Android 2.1 which is yet to be released worldwide).
First i would like to mention those features which i enjoyed in my Nokias but which are not available in X10 :
1. TV-Out - I have a Sony Bravia 32 inch LCD TV and i frequently used to use this TV-out feature available in my Nokia phones with it whether it is to play youtube videos on TV via the phone, or to see slide show of the pictures of the phone's albums with the family every now and then. That's why I hugely miss this feature in Xperia.
2. Camera quality with Xenon flash - Even though x10 has 8 mp camera and N82 has 5 mp, N82 snaps nicer and clearer pictures IMHO. Also the Xenon Flash in N82 is just awesome. Also i do not understand why the flash (called photo light in x10) is by default off and so much hidden (you have to click menu, then advance setting then photo light and click it in on position everytime you use camera).
3. PC suit / PC companion - Needless to say PC suit is a big lot better than PC companion. In fact, i believe PC suit is the best among it's kind.
4. Making phone work as modem - though there are some 3rd party applications that make x10 work as a modem for having internet connection in your pc or laptop via it, however, it is much better, easier, in-built, and official in Nokia's smartphones.
5. FM Radio - Yes, you can enjoy radio on X10 by installing any one of the tens of internet radio applications available in the android market. But let's face it you can use those apps only if you have internet (and many a time you don't have) as well as no internet radio app can give you that kind of fun, experience and unexpectedibility which one can find with the in-built FM Radio in many Nokia handsets.
There maybe more to this list but i have mentioned those which i miss the most. if anyone this list should include more they are free to comment and add.
2ndly, even though you have android OS in X10, almost all other companies handsets which are based on android are going to have many features which X10 can't simply because X10 is about to integrate 2.1 version of android (Eclare) now whereas those phones have already upgraded or about to be upgraded to 2.2 version (Froyo). And seeing with the soooooooooo slow speed SE is upgrading the OS of its X10 family handsets, it is likely that they will either upgrade it to 2.2 in another year or so (this 2.1 upgradation is going to take place after one year of X10 launch), or they will never upgrade it to 2.2 at all.
Here are the major features which are available in 2.2 but not in 2.1:
6. Ability to install applications on removable storage i.e. in your MicroSd card - Though X10 has 1 GB of internal storage with 384 MB of RAM, both are likely to be run out of itself if you, like me, become unable to hold the temptation to download many many free and paid games and apps available in more-than-a-million-apps-rich android market. I donot understand why it is restricted in android 2.1 to install apps in the memory card.
7. Faster speed and performance - You think Xperia X10 is fast enough even with its current version of android (1.6), and it will certainly improve on speed in the 2.1. But i just searched and was surprised to find that 2.2 is 450% faster then 2.1. Imagine the kind of speed and performance we would have enjoyed with the phone, had SE upgraded it to 2.2 instead of 2.1.
8. USB teathering and Wi-Fi hotspot - these are damn cool, latest, and usable features (google it and read more about it in case if you do not know) unfortunately only available with 2.2 and not with 2.1.
9. Flash 10.1 - Also in version 2.2 is the addition of support for Flash 10.1. This will keep Android devices compliant with sites and applications that shift to using the latest version of Flash. This also affects video viewing as Flash is used by a lot of video streaming sites like Youtube.
10. Apart from above, changes were made to the graphics, UI, device policy, camera, and media framework APIs as well as some corporate features like more capabilities of Microsoft Exchange, remote data wiping, auto-discovery, global address lists look-up, and Exchange calendars etc. etc. These are not available in 2.1.
Apart from these all comparison-with-nokia and android issues and shortcomings, a so much high-end and expensive phone should have the following but unfortunately it does not have due to one reason or another:
11. Multi-touch - i heard that there is some proprietary issue with this and therefore SE perhaps never going to include multi-touch in it's handsets.
12. Color depth richness should have been in the range of 16 million however it is 65K only.
13. Amoled touch screen - best touch screen technology today.
14. 3d acceleration - for better viewing and gaming experience.
And many more....
One can say that i am expecting a little too much but let me tell again that if you spend a good amount of money on something, you expect it to have the latest technologies and features the other contemporaries mobile sets are having and that is on cheaper price.
Thanks for reading!
