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6th April 2010.
08:41
Category Archives: Xperia X10
XPERIA X10 is now out there in the stores in many countries. As some of you already noticed the launch created a big buzz in e.g. Japan.
There is a huge interest in the product and apparently DoCoMo’s pre-orders of Xperia exceeded 50,000 units which is really cool! At launch day it created more or less chaos in some of their stores and some of my colleagues there sent me some pics from the launch as seen below.
Here in Sweden sales started just in time for the Easter holidy and it has been recieved very well. I’m really glad to see the positive response we’re getting in different forums all over the web where people describe their first experience with the product and seem to like it a lot 
We’ve noticed that some of you here also got your X10 now and as usual feel free to share your impressions, give us feedback and discuss tips and hints here in the comments section! As said earlier all your feeback is read, gathered and forwarded to the development project.
As announced a while ago there is a consumer research program around X10 in the works. The research program is a bigger thing but we here at the blog got the opportunity to recruit some of the research candidates. Many of you applied and some of you got chosen. Now it’s live. This wednesday I got to join Sumit in one of the start up interviews and getting started moments here in Stockholm. Me and Sumit visited Peter, who also runs a blog at www.DailyAndroid.se, asked a lot of questions and finally got to the part where he was to unbox his X10 and get started with settings, services and applications. The first meeting is of course around background and the initial thoughts of getting the X10 in his hands but there will be further follow up posts over time.
I’m sure that Sumit will get back here with more of Peters feedback soon but I just thought I would highlight that it is ongoing and post some pics I shot with Vivaz during our visit.
Another thing to highlight is of course also the fact that XPERIA X10 is now about to hit the stores. Availability is different in different countries but e.g. here in Sweden it will be in stores just in time for Easter, i.e. 31st of March.
To continue on what has become a good tradition it’s now time for unboxing of XPERIA X10 now when we have our first commercial samples here in the office. This time Gustaf is on vacation so my friend Mårten helped me out instead. We show the boxes for both colors of XPERIA X10 and also show a bit of what to expect in the box. We also tried to show a bit more of what the boxes look like since I guess most of you have seen quite a few videos of the phone by now
The clip is shot with Vivaz so to get an HD-experience remember to click Watch on YouTube and select 720p. (This will also show a bit on the continous auto focus working, it struggles a bit from time to time in indoor lighting but I think it does quite a good job! This time I also set white balance manually)
As for the earlier unboxings I’d like to remind about the fact that kit content differs between markets and service providers so there might be more things in the kit that will be available on your market.
Uploading videos to Youtube directly from the phone may not sound like the most revolutionary thing for a hardcore mobile techie. But for the more average mobile phone user, I actually think this possibility may be seen as very cool and also very useful. With the video quality of mobile phones increasing (this video is for example shoot with my Vivaz in HD ) and peoples growing desire to constantly share with their friends their status and what they are doing right now, I believe a lot more people would use this functionally if they knew how easy it is. Below is a short video of me uploading a full quality video to Youtube from my Xperia X10 with just a few “klicks” (could you refer to “klicks” on a touch screen… ?).
To get started, the only thing you have to do is to register an account with Youtube. This can also be done directly from the phone itself. Then it runs increadibly smoothly.
Enjoy!
BTW – we just realized that Rikard’s previous post was the 100th post on this blog since we started 7 September last year – we will celebrate that with some apple cake after lunch today
The huge 4 inch screen of XPERIA X10 of course is great for watching video. It’s both big enough to make it comfortable and has really high resolution to show all details. In the short tutorial here I show two different video services live in the X10. The first one is the SVT-play service offered on the mobile web page of Swedish public service TV - SVT. The other service shown is the included YouTube client. In that client there is an important option to really experience video in the best way, the option is to “Watch in high quality” which really makes a huge difference compared to the normal mobile service offered by YouTube.
Of course there are lots of other services out there besides these two, both local and global but at least it should give you an idea on what to expect from the screen and the video decoding and streaming capabilities. In my opinion it looks great!
As always please remember that these demos are on prototype hardware and pre-releae software so things might change until release.
The video below is unedited and shot with the Sony Ericsson Vivaz so it also gives you a feel for the 720 HD recording offered there! (remember to click “watch on Youtube and select 720p to see it in full quality)
