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Sony Ericsson Launches Android, Symbian Touchscreen Phones

14.02.2010
Sony Ericsson on Sunday introduced three new phones at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. The Vivaz Pro, running on the Symbian platform, and the X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro, running on Google Android, together with the and are dubbed as the "fabulous five" by the company.

The Xperia X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro are basically smaller, more compact versions of the X10 model, last year. Both new phones run on the Google Android mobile operating system with a special interface developed by Sony Ericsson.

Sony Ericsson's X10 Mini and X10 Mini Pro feature similar specifications, albeit with a few differences. They have a 5-megapixel camera with auto focus, flash and video recording, Bluetooth (A2DP), A-GPS, 3.5mm audio jack, Wi-Fi, and 2.55-inch touchscreens with QVGA (240 by 320 pixels) resolutions.

Unlike the Xperia X10 Mini, the X10 Mini Pro features a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard and is slightly larger and heavier. Don't expect on these phones just yet, as they come .

To make up for the older software delivered with these phones, Sony Ericcson developed the Timescape interface for Android, which brings together on the home screen status updates from Facebook, Twiter messages and replies, incoming text and picture messages, and missed calls.

The 3G phones also come only with 128MB of internal memory (expandable up to 16GB via microSd cards), a , The Xperia X10 mini and X10 pro are expected sometime in Q2, for a yet-unannounced price.