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The X1 is an arc-slider phone with the Windows Mobile 6.1 Operating System. It is Sony Ericsson's first mobile phone to feature Windows Mobile . Device also has Java virtual machine (JBed) and supports JavaME that is claimed to have richer set of features than typically available.

The phone features a three-inch touchscreen overlaying a keypad which emerges when the user slides the touchscreen face upward, much as in the HTC TyTN II, although the X1's touchscreen slides out in an arc. Its touchscreen is a 65,536-color TFT WVGA display. It has a 3.2 megapixel digital camera which records video at thirty frames per second in VGA (640x480) quality. There is also a secondary front facing camera for videoconferencing that is of QCIF format. Connectivity options for the phone include: mini-USB; wireless LAN 802.11b/g; Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP, FTP, and HID; EDGE; and quad-band GSM, UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, and HSCSD. The X1 has 512MB of internal memory (400MB free), which is expandable to 32 gigabytes using High Capacity microSD cards, although currently only cards up to 16 gigabytes have been released by SanDisk. The phone also features A-GPS for navigation.

The X1 ships with Opera Mobile pre-installed.

Standard features on the X1 include push email, an RSS feed aggregator, and handwriting recognition.

It is also able to use the GSM network feature Alternate line service.

The device is powered by Qualcomm's ARM 11 MSM7200A CPU, which runs at 528 MHz. The device's memory is 256 MB RAM.

Specifications

Display

• 3" touchscreen with a resolution of 800x480 pixels (WVGA)
• 65 thousand color TFT display

Device colors

The phone is available in 2 colors

• Solid Black
• Steel Silver

Physical Attributes

Dimensions: 110.0 x 53.0 x 16.7 millimeters; 4.33 x 2.09 x 0.66 inches
Weight with battery: 158.0 grams; 5.57 ounces

Battery

Lithium-Polymer, 1500 mAh.

Talk time:
GSM: 10h
WCDMA: 6h
WCDMA video call: 3h

Stand by:
GSM: 20.8 days
WCDMA: 26.7 days

Connectivity

The Xperia X1 supports an ‘always on’ 3G broadband Internet connection with high-speed data transfer. This enables audio and video streaming, Web surfing, multimedia messaging and email.

Connectivity options include :

• 3G broadband
• HSDPA with download transfer rate up to 7.2 Mbit/s
• HSUPA with upload transfer rate up to 2.0 Mbit/s
• WiFi
• Bluetooth, with a range of 10 meters
• GPRS modem for dial-up Internet
• Synchronization and content sharing with PCs
• USB mass storage
• USB cable support

Networks

• Quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
• Tri-band UMTS / HSDPA / HSUPA: UMTS 850 / 1900 / 2100 X1a, UMTS 900 / 1900 / 2100 X1i/X1c