Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 Official, Runs Windows Mobile 6.5

@Beastage: Windows Mobile has strengths, but it has many more weaknesses. Most of these stem from a lack of cohesive standards. At the very basic level, extensive issues with color depth, screen solution and processor speeds create huge issues with app support, as well as cohesive user experience with the underlying OS. Couple that with issues of reliability of independant APIs and you have a recipe for trouble. Coding has been, and continues to be, a problematic issue for developers. In order to provide the broadest level of compatibility a developer needs to include so much bloat as to make the app unwieldy and prone to error. Furthermore, the lack of standardizationin on the WinMo/hardware level further complicate issues. In and of itself, WinMo does some neat things, but it gets stressed easily. More recent incarnations fare slightly better, but that's mostly due to having more memory and processor power thrown at it as opposed to being a more stable product. Whatever your feelings on the matter may be, as someone involved with app development, I can say that WinMo has proven to be far more trouble than it's worth. It has its niches (enterprise level scalability), but it's certainly not innately user or developer friendly. The fact that it needs a slick "skin" in order to feel good is a bad sign, and until MS irons out issues with hardware variances that require coders to study reams of manufacturer specs, it won't ever begin to rival the iPhone OS, Android or Symbian.

Also, slap till I faint? What are you, 12?

How many euros did it cost to print |____| on the spacebar? And how many typos am I going to make with that funky keypad layout?

This is going to be yet another useless and overpriced piece of shit Sony phone.

Alex Richards

It's funny how they insist on releasing WinMo phones in Europe of all places.

I'm willing to wager the X3 will sell a lot better than this on the strenght of Android alone.

Cinephile

My experiences in the past with windows mobile are not so good. I wasn't satisfied with my HTC P4350 or something like that. And my HTC Diamond also couldn't live up to my expectations... Why didn't sony create their own OS for this? Or at least let it go symbian? Winmo is no-go!

". It'll be out later this year for 699 euros, so um, not cheap if it ever comes to the US. "

Same price as uhm.... all the rest of the high-end phones? including the overpriced poorly specced, insane profit margin iphone.

Oh btw, in Europe you will probably be able to get these free with a reasonable contract.

@met2art: Oh wise one, please explain if you can...I doubt you can and if you dare to bring issues from days of old, I'll slap you till you faint.

@TonyWonder: I don't know what you mean by "handicap" parking. The picture clearly shows a chairperson.

En0s1

Releasing all the good Sony Ericsson phones only in Europe is the reason Ericsson is having problems. If they released a few of the phones here in the states, they would probably make more money.

nightwheel

Wow, I can only imagine the X3 going to cost more.

I was thinking of upgrading when the X3 comes out, but if it's going to cost that much, I'll pass.

Shook-Yang

@met2art:

Thanks for the heads up. I'll stay away from all handicap parking spots in the tri-state area.

@met2art: Win!

@TonyWonder: You are, most likely, offically on Steve Jobs' legendary "List" now. I'd lay low, if I were you, ya know?

That's a pretty sweet looking phone, and some very nice specs, too. Shame they had to go and cheapen it with WinMo. You can throw all the pretty interfaces you want on it, but that's still just the OS equivalent of wood-grain veneer on cheap particle board. When you stress it, it'll show its quality.

so, about $1400?

ahh... welcome back Sony.

imagine that thing running the iPhone OS? Giz should run a poll...see how many people would enjoy a physical keyboard on the iPhone or am I the only one?

@ Shook-Yang: I would imagine the X3 would cost a lot less: 1. no physical keyboard on the X3 (yay!)
2. no MS license-fee for the OS.

Now hurry up and release it SE!

Uncle-Meat