Introduction & Positioning

It is a little early to judge Sony Ericsson’s attempt to reach a larger market by creating smartphones running on different operating systems. However, this approach produced a larger range of devices than Sony Ericsson used to have in the past and has spawned some interesting phones.

No matter how hard I tried, I could not write this article without often referring to the other two X-series devices running Google’s Android OS – X10 and X10 mini, so let me apologise for this from the beginning.

Today I’ll take a look at the “professional” version of the X10 mini. This is one of the two “mini” versions that complete the series along with their big brother – the X10. Hence the name – X10 mini pro, which some may find a little… boring to say frankly. The only notable differences between X10 mini and X10 mini pro are the size and usability of the keyboard. So, let’s begin.

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Author of this video decided to test two of the current top Android phones in a video game test. So… HTC Desire vs Samsung Galaxy S – which phone is better for playing Quake 2?

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Google has once again updated the information about the Android versions, and market share each of the versions has compared to the others. This statistics is, as always, interesting and gives us a good reason to discuss it.

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HTC have released new, more detailed video of their new Wildfire smartphone. If you are interested in this device, check the video and read my HTC Wildfire review. The review is quite detailed, so I’m not going to list all benefits and issues here again.

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This is not a full post, I just came across the below image and couldn’t stop myself from posting it. The photo speaks for itself – you can clearly see the size of Droid X and compare it with other Android smartphones.

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American mobile operator Verizon has released a promotional video for the new Droid X smartphone. The ad is pretty cool, and I really recommend everyone to check it:

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HTC Hero owners can start celebrating… The moment so many people were waiting for has finally arrived. Official upgrade to Android 2.1 has been released yesterday. The question you are probably asking now is – ‘So, how do I upgrade?’

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Display is one of the most important parts of most mobile devices, because the readability of information and multimedia depends on it. LCD, AMOLED and SuperAMOLED are the most commonly used technologies on the market. Each of these technologies has its pluses and minuses. Good people from Techblog have done a comparison sunlight test and we can now see the results and choose a winner. All displays have been tested in one of the most severe tests – direct sunlight.

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Verizon and Motorola have teamed up yesterday to announce the new Android smartphone – Motorola Droid X. Main features of the handset include:

• Display: 4.3-inch display with resolution of 854 x 480
• Processor: TI OMAP3630 1GHz,
• Misc: HDMI out
• Camera: 8 megapixel with dual LED flash and 720p video capture
• Storage: 8GB of onboard storage with expansion of up to 32GB (you get a 16GB card in the box)
• Operating System: Android 2.1 with an all-new UI skin

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At the recent Computex trade show Acer announced a number of new Android smartphones. The announcement included company’s new flagship model called Stream, and a number of inexpensive phones. There was not much information available about these new models, but yesterday Acer sent out an official press release about the new products. Let’s look at them.

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