| Going through the Sony Ericsson press release data | | | | shadow of itself with a run-of-the-mill 5 megapixel |
| sheet at the recently concluded 2010 Mobile World | | | | camera that has no image stabilization or touchfocus |
| Congress, the new XPERIA X10 Minis promise nothing | | | | capability 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 user | | | | inferior to the WVGA video recording resolution with |
| interface and are housed in humbler clothing with a | | | | 30fps on the X10. Otherwise, the press release data |
| choice of different colors. The Sony Ericsson | | | | sheet should have bragged about that feature. The |
| XPERIA Mini Pro will be coming in just black or white | | | | camera still gets LED flash, autofocus, geo tagging and |
| and is getting what looks like a side sliding tactile | | | | video 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 giving | | | | ordinary every which way you look. 16 millions colors |
| a handset a professional feel by using a QWERTY | | | | just won't compensate for this. At least you still get an |
| keyboard that's next to useless for people who are | | | | accelerometer 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 to | | | | generous 1GB on the X10 to just 128 MB in the Mini |
| be only its third QWERTY slider handset after the | | | | Pro. A microSD expandability of up to 16 GB makes |
| Windows Mobile Xperia X2. | | | | up for it though. |
| X10 Mini Pro Features | | | | Those familiar with the X10 features on paper should |
| Comparing the MiniPro specs with those of the | | | | find the rest of the other Mini Pro hardware and |
| delayed XPERIA X10 clearly shows that a lot of the | | | | software specs no different. It's the same 3G with |
| features the clearly distinguished the X10 as a | | | | dual band UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA and a quad band |
| landmark Smartphone, had been scaled down to fit in | | | | GSM/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 QSD8250 | | | | microUSB 2,0. There's a built-in A-GPS, stereo FM |
| Snapdragon used in the X10 is now a Qualcomm | | | | receiver 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 a | | | | listening. |