Last month, Sony Ericsson was filed the XPERIA™ trademark and some rumors out there said that this XPERIA™ will be a new series released by this Swedish-Japanese joint company.

On 10 February 2008 at Mobile World Congress, Sony Ericsson officially announced a new XPERIA™ X1 phone, first model released under XPERIA™ series. X1 come with large 3-inch touchscreen display with 800 x 480 pixels. Built-in with Windows Mobile® platform inside, that mean more programs and games will be compatible with this phone compared to UIQ platform that was used by some of the Sony Ericsson phones before.

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There are four ways you can interact with the X1 phone, either through the large 3-inch touchscreen, 4-way navigation keys, optical joystick or through easy-to-use QWERTY keyboard.

Below are specifications of the XPERIA™ X1 phone :

• 3.2 megapixel camera with auto focus and photo light
• Video recording, calling and streaming
• 3G
• PlayNow™
• FM radio
• XPERIA™ panel interface
• Handwriting recognition
• GPS, Bluetooth™, WLAN and Modem
• Synchronization and USB support
• Picture blogging and RSS feeds
• Push E-mail

Because it is built under Windows Mobile® operating system, so the below applications are pre-installed inside the phone :

• Microsoft® Outlook Mobile : email, contacts, calendar, tasks
• Microsoft® Office Mobile : Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Internet Explorer® Mobile
• Windows Media™ Player Mobile
• Windows Live™
• Exchange ActiveSync®

For more information, you can visit the XPERIA™ X1 minisite [click here]. The phone will be released in the selected markets from the 2nd half of 2008.

+ Visit official XPERIA™ X1 homepage [click here]