Sony Ericsson с приходом 2012 года превратилась в Sony, как раз тогда компания полностью остановила выпуск обычных телефонов и начала специализироваться на смартфонах. Изначально японская компания планировала все свои устройства создавать на базе Android, однако односторонняя направленность лишила бы компанию пользователей, предпочитающих Windows Phone, а их с течением времени становится все больше.
Одной из первых моделей компании Sony на базе Windows Phone стала Sony Xperia Pop. Этот телефон способен менять свое настроение хоть каждую минуту благодаря большому набору сменных задних панелей. Каждая такая панелька продается отдельно и стоит 29 долларов. Кстати, интерфейс телефона меняется вместе со сменой панели.
Характеристики телефона пока что не указаны, однако предположить будущее «железо» устройства не так уж сложно, поскольку ряд комплектующих у WP достаточно узок. С уверенностью можно заявить, что в телефоне будет стоять процессор Qualcomm c частотой 1400 Мгц, 512 Мб оперативной памяти, 8-мимегапиксельная камера, встроенная память объемом 8 либо 16 Гб. Самые позитивные ожидания по стоимости данного устройства – 300 долларов. В данной задумке нет ни доли фантастики, поэтому будет свято верить, что Sony эта идея также придется по вкусу.
Believe it or not, the Xperia range of smartphones is one of the oldest that’s still around today. Those who’ve been watching the industry for more than just a few years certainly know that the very first Xperia was announced in early 2008, and hit shelves around the world starting October that year. Unlike today’s Xperias, the first model ran Windows Mobile, and was launched at a time when Sony was still in a joint venture with Sweden’s Ericsson — that’s why the handset’s called Sony Ericsson Xperia X1.
Since the release of the X1, more than 50 Xperia models have been introduced, culminating with the Xperia Z3 and Z3 Compact that were announced earlier this week at IFA 2014.
We’re thinking that the introduction of the Z3 models is a good occasion for us to take a look at all the important Xperias that have been released over the years. It’s interesting to see how the Xperia design evolved, while at the same time retaining something that makes us identify them as Sony products — from the 17mm-thick Xperia X1 to the 7mm-thin Xperia Z3. So, let’s sit back and take a look at how things progressed in the 6 years since the first Xperia was unveiled.
Sony Ericsson Xperia X1
As we already mentioned, the Xperia X1 was a Windows-based smartphone. It ran Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, featuring a sliding QWERTY keyboard, and a 3.0-inch display. This display had a 480 x 800 pixel resolution, offering one of the highest ppi densities among 2008’s smartphones. By comparison, that year’s iPhone (the iPhone 3G) featured a 3.5-inch display with a measly 320 x 480 pixel resolution and a 165 ppi density, while the HTC Touch Pro — one of Xperia X1’s direct competitors — offered a 2.8-inch screen with 480 x 640 pixels (286ppi).
Sony Ericsson Xperia X2
Although it was announced in September 2009, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 went on sale in January 2010. It was the second — and last — Windows-based Xperia. The X2 came with an arguably more elegant design, though it retained the overall style of the X1. It offered an improved QWERTY keyboard, and a larger, 3.2-inch display (its resolution remained unchanged: 480 x 800 pixels).
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
The reason why Sony (Ericsson) abandoned Windows Mobile? Android, of course. Two months after announcing the X2, the company revealed the Xperia X10, its very first Android smartphone. The X10 hit the market in March 2010 as one of that year’s Android flagships. Although it was praised for its design and specs (including the large, 4-inch display with 480 x 854 pixels), the Xperia X10 was criticized for shipping with Android 1.6 Donut instead of Android Éclair (which had been available since October 2009).
Sony Ericsson Xperia arc
Announced in early 2011, the Xperia arc was positioned as a uniquely-designed high-end smartphone, featuring a sleek, curved back. Its specs were also attractive for the time: 4.2-inch display with 480 x 854 pixels, 512 MB of RAM, and a 1.0 GHz Snapdragon S2 processor. A slightly upgraded model, Xperia arc S, was introduced in the second half of that year, coming with a 1.4 GHz S2 processor.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Play
The Xperia Play is important because it’s the first smartphone to offer a dedicated gamepad. It was announced in February 2011, but it failed to be a commercial success. If anything, the failure of the Xperia Play showed that people simply don’t want a smartphone that’s also a portable gaming device in the traditional sense of the word.
Sony Xperia Ion
2012 saw Sony acquiring Ericsson’s share in the Sony Ericsson joint venture, thus forming Sony Mobile Communications. One of the first smartphones to ditch the Ericsson branding was the 4.55-inch Sony Xperia Ion, which can be seen as the handset that signaled a new direction in Sony’s design — you could easily mistaken the Ion for a member of the Xperia Z line.
Announced at the same time with the Ion, the Xperia S introduced a transparent, illuminated strip situated below the phone’s 4.3-inch 720p display. This gave the smartphone a distinctive look, though Sony decided to use the same feature on other models (like the Xperia U and Xperia P), thus taking away a lot of its uniqueness.
This is Sony’s first 5-inch smartphone, as well as its first water-resistant flagship, and the first to feature a 1080p display. It was also one of the first high-end Android flagships to be released in 2013, and is still a viable option today — assuming you don’t mind your handset being powered by a relatively outdated Snapdragon S4 processor. Needless to say, the Xperia Z kind of kicked off a new era for Sony.
Only six months after the Xperia Z came out, Sony launched the Xperia Z1, which righted most of the wrongs that the Z included (like the not-so-accurate display, and the questionable rear camera). The Z1 brought a little brother with it: the Xperia Z1 Compact. Unlike other mini smartphones released until then, the Z1 Compact offers the same high-end internals of its larger sibling.
Once again, Sony didn’t wait a full year to introduce its next flagship handset. Thus, the Xperia Z2 was launched around the world in April this year, after being announced in February at MWC 2014. The Z2 comes with enhanced specs, as well as a slightly larger display (a 5.2-inch panel, unlike the 5-inch screens of the Z and Z1).
Finally, here we are: several days ago, Sony announced the Xperia Z3 and Xperia Z3 Compact in an attempt to bring the Xperia Z line to perfection. While we’ll have to wait until we review them to say if they’re the best Xperias ever, the Z3 and Z3 Compact certainly seem capable of overshadowing the older models. You can check out our
Xperia Z3 hands-on here, and our
Xperia Z3 Compact hands-on here.
Until we get the chance to review the latest Xperia handsets, here’s an image comparing all the models that we’ve presented above (it’s quite a large image, so make sure to zoom in):
What do you think? Is the Xperia line evolving in the right direction? Share your thoughts in the comments!
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sony Ericsson Xperia X1
| Developer | Sony Ericsson |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | hTC |
| Type | Smartphone |
| Series | Sony Ericsson Xperia |
| Availability by region | October 2008 |
| Predecessor | None |
| Successor | Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 |
| Related | HTC Touch Pro |
| Compatible networks | Quad-band GSM/GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbit/s/EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz Tri-band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA: X1a: 850/1900/2100 MHz (/)/ X1i/X1c: 900/1900/2100 MHz //// |
| Form factor | vertical arc-slider design |
| Dimensions | 110 × 53 × 16.7 mm |
| Weight | 158 g with battery |
| Operating system | Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional[1] |
| CPU | ARM 11 Qualcomm MSM7200A 528 MHz with 256-MHz ARM9 2nd core, hardware 3D graphics support with up to 4 million 3D triangles per second, and 133 million 3D textured pixels per second fill rate, OpenGL ES-compliant 3D graphics[2] |
| Memory | 256 MB[3] |
| Storage | 512 MB NAND Flash |
| Removable storage | microSDHC 16 GB |
| SIM | miniSIM |
| Battery | Standard battery, Li-Po 1500 mAh (BST-41) |
| Charging | Fast port (proprietary) & Micro-B charging |
| Rear camera | 3.2-MP (2048×1536) with flash Video: X1i/X1c: MPEG-4/H.263 30 fps at VGA, H.264: 15 fps at VGA X1a: MPEG4/H.263 24 fps at QVGA, no H.264 |
| Front camera | Secondary QCIF (176 × 144) format front-facing video telephony camera |
| Display | 3.0-inch 16-bit color WVGA (800×480) TFT touchscreen, ATI 3D chip |
| Connectivity | Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP miniUSB 2.0 3.5mm audio jack aGPS Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g no IR |
| Data inputs | Touchscreen Handwriting recognition Stylus Keyboard: 4-row QWERTY (/) QWERTZ () AZERTY () Optical joystick |
The Xperia X1 (codenamed HTC Kovsky) is a high-end smartphone from Sony Ericsson, and is the first in the manufacturer’s Xperia series. The phone was designed and built by Taiwanese OEM HTC. The X1 was first presented at the 2008 Mobile World Congress.[6]
The X1 is an arc-slider phone with the Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system. It is Sony Ericsson’s first mobile phone to feature Windows Mobile.[1] The device also has a Java virtual machine (JBed) and supports Java Platform, Micro Edition[7] that is claimed to have a richer set of features than typically available.
The phone features a three-inch resistive touchscreen overlaying a keypad which emerges when the user slides the touchscreen face upward, much as in the HTC TyTN II, although the X1’s touchscreen slides out in an arc. Its touchscreen is a 65,536-color TFT WVGA display. It has a 3.2-megapixel digital camera which records video at thirty frames per second in VGA (640×480) quality. There is also a secondary front-facing camera for videoconferencing that is of QCIF format. Connectivity options for the phone include: mini-USB; wireless LAN 802.11b/g; Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, FTP, and HID; EDGE; and quad-band GSM, UMTS, HSDPA, HSUPA, and HSCSD. The X1 has 512 MB of internal memory (400 MB free), which is expandable to 16 gigabytes using high capacity microSD cards, currently cards up to 32 gigabytes have been released by SanDisk.[8] The phone also features A-GPS for navigation.[9]
The X1 ships with Opera Mobile pre-installed.
Standard features on the X1 include push email, an RSS feed aggregator, and handwriting recognition.
It is also able to use the GSM network feature Alternate line service.[10]
The device is powered by Qualcomm’s ARM 11 MSM7200A CPU, which runs at 528 MHz. The device’s memory is 256 MB RAM.[11]
The home screen on the Xperia X1 supports up to nine different «panels» which can be switched between by the user, each offering different functionality.[12] This allows users to select exactly which functionality they want on their homescreen, and switch easily. Extra panels can be downloaded from Sony Ericsson or third parties. Sony Ericsson released an SDK for developers which allows panels to be created using either C++ or HTML with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 SP1 or better.[13] There is also a third party website which simplifies the process of creating an HTML panel, as it is quite a complex task with Visual Studio.[14]
The X1 began shipping on 30 September 2008. It became available to the UK market on 27 October 2008 (only on Vodafone). The handset is available through the Carphone Warehouse and Phones4U in the UK. In Europe it will be sold only in Fnac stores (Belgium and France).[citation needed]
In Hong Kong, X1 was shipped on 29 October 2008. The first batch of X1 in Hong Kong was dedicated for the mobile operator Three HK and was reserved for the operator’s VIP premium user for pre-ordering.[15]
In South Africa, it was released to the public on 16 December 2009.[citation needed]
On 13 November, Sony Ericsson announced that the phone would be available in North America on 28 November 2008 for $799 unlocked.[16]
In Australia, the X1a was released on Telstra in December 2008 and went on sale 26 December 2008. It’s now also available on the Vodafone and 3 Networks.
The Sony Ericsson Canadian website reveals the X1a as «coming soon», available within three months. The availability status was spotted as early as 14 February 2010.
- 3″ resistive touchscreen with a resolution of 800×480 pixels (WVGA)
- 65 thousand color TFT display
The phone is available in two colors
- Solid Black
- Steel Silver
Physical attributes
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Dimensions: 110.0 × 53.0 × 16.7 millimeters; 4.33 × 2.09 × 0.66 inches
Weight with battery: 158.0 grams; 5.57 ounces
Lithium-Polymer, 1500 mAh.
Talk time:
GSM: 10h
WCDMA: 6h
WCDMA video call: 3h
Stand by:
GSM: 20.8 days
WCDMA: 20.7 days
The Xperia X1 supports an always-on 3G broadband Internet connection with high-speed data transfer. This enables audio and video streaming, web surfing, multimedia messaging and email.
Connectivity options include:[17]
- 3.5G broadband
- HSDPA with download transfer rate up to 7.2 Mbit/s
- HSUPA with upload transfer rate up to 2.0 Mbit/s
- Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth, with a range of 10 meters
- GPRS modem for dial-up Internet
- Synchronization and content sharing with PCs
- USB mass storage
- USB cable support
Windows Mobile operating system
- Microsoft Outlook Mobile: email, contacts, calendar, tasks
- Microsoft Office Mobile: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Opera Mobile
- Windows Media Player Mobile
- Windows Live
- Exchange ActiveSync
- Voice control
- Utility Applications: file explorer, calculator, pictures & video, notes
The XDAndroid project makes it possible to run Android on some Windows Mobile phones, including the Xperia X1. Additionally, the Rhobuntu project makes it possible to run Ubuntu Linux on some Windows Mobile phones, including the Xperia X1.
Internal memory: up to 400 MB
microSD memory card support up to 16 GB
- Quad-band GSM / GPRS / EDGE: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- Tri-band UMTS / HSDPA / HSUPA: UMTS 850 / 1900 / 2100 X1a, UMTS 900 / 1900 / 2100 X1i/X1c
- SAR value: 0.57 W/kg
The launch of the Xperia X1 was accompanied by a video called «Who is Johnny X?».[18]
The launch was tied in closely with the «London Design Festival».
- Technological convergence
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- Reuters Update
Everyone’s heard the saying “never put all of your eggs in one basket,” and Sony Mobile (SNE) seems to agree. What with all of the lawsuits being obsessed over between iOS and Android (even if Sony doesn’t really seem to care), it would be wise for Sony to have other options, should Android start falling apart. According to MobileMagazine, Sony Mobile UK & Ireland MD Pierre Perron said the company is currently in talks with Microsoft (MSFT) to see if Windows Phone 8 is a path it wants to explore down the road, although Android will remain as its main platform.
“As far as Xperia smartphones go, Android remains the preferred partner, although Sony is not a single partner company. We are currently investigating with the likes of Microsoft the possibility of diversifying our product strategy,” said Perron.
One thing is for sure, if Sony does decide to move forward with Windows Phone 8, it might be a good idea to drop its confusing letter naming system for its Xperia smartphones.
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