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Probably the first review of Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 published August 22, 2008 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. 
We have seen previously some reviews of pre-production units of Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 phone, but they really looked like some early engineering samples. In this review one can see for the first time the Xperia panel (up to 9 home screens at once, all running in background, with preview being updated in thumbnails - see the photo above, that we took on location at the main launch event of this phone) in action: The basic shell providing access to all other applications used in X1 is an advanced finger-operated launcher utilizing every possibility originating from the touch technology support. Currently it’s the only solution capable of competition with TouchFLO 3D by HTC; the rest of pretender are much weaker, even considering the widget system seen on some Samsung phones. The SE corporation successfully implemented the interesting idea of active panels. In the current state of development, the application has few possibilities yet its potential is immense; it’s up to the company to shape the solution into something more challenging in the future incarnations. The general idea is that the screen contains nine thumbnails which can be rotated all around in any imaginable fashion. The trick is that all the thumbnails remain simultaneously active – that is, any process running in a thumbnailed window affects the thumbnail image as it would do in a fullscreen mode – the progress bars, status indicators and other dynamic elements change accordingly so there’s no difference from the standard view mode. You are even able to watch the progress of a slowly loading web page right in a thumbnail of a web browser window. All in all it is a good review, although we wish the author could review also the camera application that is supposed to have "point to focus" feature. To learn more, visit review of Sony Ericsson Xperia X1. Note: according to latest rumors Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 goes on sale around October 10, 2008. Credit: Marios Socratous (submitted through news submission form).  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 6 Comments ]
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