By wolfstar
13th October 2008.
12:30
Monthly Archives: October 2008
If you still have some burning questions about the X1, check out this new review on Tracy and Matt’s blog. It has answered some of the questions we have been noticing in your comments, so it could prove pretty useful.
Also here is a review by Paul O’Brien at Modaco, which interestingly has also recently set up a dedicated X1 discussion area.
Chris
This week will see the last episodes of the Johnny X web drama published, and, as part of the campaign Sony Ericsson is giving away seven X1s. To enter the competition, go to http://www.rocketxl.com/xperia/ watch the episodes, and at the end of each one it asks you how many references to the #9 you see, make your submission and your done. Rinse and repeat with each episode.
Episode 8 came out today and the last one will be out on Friday.
Sam
Update: – The last episode of Johnny X is out later today, check it out to see the whole story.
We at Wolfstar finally got our hands on our very own Xperia X1 on Monday, I used it for a couple of hours then recorded this video, (it’s the first one I’ve done and despite the fact that I was in a room on my own, it was still a surprisingly nervy experience.) If you have any questions, or you want any other features of the phone demonstrating in more detail, leave it in the comments and I’ll do another video in the next couple of days.
Thanks, Sam
The last Q and A we did sparked off loads of new questions so, over the weekend I caught up with Magnus and we’ve gone through the main themes. The answers are as follows:
X1a / X1i differences: The X1a will be sold in the US, Latin America and Australia it differs from the X1i in its network configuration and the video support (it is 24 fps instead of 30). Contrary to some rumors, both versions have a front facing camera.
Keyboard layouts: A few people picked up on the fact that the X1 product site features two different keyboard layouts – this is due to regional differences. England uses Qwerty – EN, France uses Azerty, Germany uses Qwertz etc…
Screen Orientation: there is no button officially assigned to change the screen orientation but it is possible to assign one of the soft keys to do this is you want to.
SAR value: Venus max SAR value (of use case of UMTS+ BT turned on) is 1.47w/kg.
US release date: This will be announced by Sony Ericsson US on Nov 3rd
Most of the other questions can be answered by downloading Sony Ericsson’s white paper on the X1
Thanks,
Sam and Magnus
