Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro – The X10 In Sheep's Clothing

Going through the Sony Ericsson press release datashadow of itself with a run-of-the-mill 5 megapixel
sheet at the recently concluded 2010 Mobile Worldcamera that has no image stabilization or touchfocus
Congress, the new XPERIA X10 Minis promise nothingcapability on the Minis. No details on its video recording
new except some diminished features on the X10.are announced but we won't be surprised if they are
They still use the old Android 1.6 OS with the UX userinferior to the WVGA video recording resolution with
interface and are housed in humbler clothing with a30fps on the X10.  Otherwise, the press release data
choice of different colors.  The Sony Ericssonsheet should have bragged about that feature.  The
XPERIA Mini Pro will be coming in just black or whitecamera still gets LED flash, autofocus, geo tagging and
and is getting what looks like a side sliding tactilevideo light.
QWERTY keyboard that kids with little fingers will- 4 inches of eye candy display in the X10 is now
delight using.squeezed into a 2.55-inch screen that screams
The "pro" designation seems like Sony's idea of givingordinary every which way you look.  16 millions colors
a handset a professional feel by using a QWERTYjust won't compensate for this. At least you still get an
keyboard that's next to useless for people who areaccelerometer and scratch resistant surface.
used to using larger QWERTY keyboards on a- Internal memory nearly gets wiped out from a
smartphone.  We can forgive Sony as this seems togenerous 1GB on the X10 to just 128 MB in the Mini
be only its third QWERTY slider handset after thePro.  A microSD expandability of up to 16 GB makes
Windows Mobile Xperia X2.up for it though.
X10 Mini Pro FeaturesThose familiar with the X10 features on paper should
Comparing the MiniPro specs with those of thefind the rest of the other Mini Pro hardware and
delayed XPERIA X10 clearly shows that a lot of thesoftware specs no different. It's the same 3G with
features the clearly distinguished the X10 as adual band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA and a quad band
landmark Smartphone, had been scaled down to fit inGSM/GPRS/EDGE on 2G.  Data connectivity gets
a shrunken and a more pedestrian Mini Pro.WiFi 82.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 with EDR and A2DP,
- What used to be a 1 GHz Qualcomm QSD8250microUSB 2,0.  There's a built-in A-GPS, stereo FM
Snapdragon used in the X10 is now a Qualcommreceiver with RDS, Bluetooth A2DP and 3.5mm
MSM7227 clocked at 600 MHz on the Minis.headphone jack for either wireless or wired headset
- The mighty 8 megapixel camera becomes alistening.