Sony Ericsson released the Touchscreen XPERIA XI in October 2008. It is a luxury smart phone bearing high price tag, and features latest technological applications. It comes with a full QWERTY keyboard, and a customizable interactive panel interface.

Features:

110.5 x 52.6 x 17 mm
145 g
TFT resistive Touchscreen, 65K colors
800 x 480 pixels, 3.0 inches
Full QWERTY keyboard
Optical track pad
Qualcomm MSM 7200 528 MHz CPU
256 MB RAM, 512 MB ROM
Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional
WAP 2.0/HTML (IE), RSS feeds
Class 10 (4+1/3+2 slots), 32 – 48 kbps
EDGE
HSDPA, 7.2 Mbps; HSUPA, 2 Mbps
Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
GPS with A-GPS support
Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP
v2.0 miniUSB
3.15 MP, 2048×1536 pixels, autofocus, LED flash, Touch Focus
Video recording
Secondary video call camera
Stereo FM radio with RDS
3.5 mm audio jack
MP3/AAC/MPEG4 player
Pocket Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, PDF viewer)
Picture editor/blogging
Standard battery, Li-Po 1500 mAh (BST-41)
Stand by Up to 833 h (2G) / Up to 640 h (3G)

Talktime Up to 10 h (2G) / Up to 6 h (3G)

Features:

Available in two decent colors silver and black; XPERIA XI is a nice slider smart phone with a full QWERTY keyboard, yet a compact and solid piece. It has a nice metallic finishing, giving it a fine look. The 3 inches Touchscreen offers a deep resolution, showing crisp and lively display. The interactive panel interface allows users to customize their cell phone according to their own like and dislike. There are nine available panels to choose from, including Sony Ericsson (two variations), Google, 3D Fish, Xperia Radio, and Media Xperience. This is fun with functionality. Users can choose what gets displayed on Today screen and what widgets should be shown thereon. Other panels can be downloaded from third party developers’ websites.

Below the display, there are certain keys including two soft keys, call and end call, Panel and okay, plus an optical track pad. Keyboard is exposed when the user slides the phone towards right. It is a swift motion and screen tilts at an easy to view angle. Keyboard is nicely spaced and easy to use.

Phone runs Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Edition, and the user gets MS Office Mobile Suite, MS Direct Push Technology, and automatic synchronization with Outlook calendar, tasks, and contacts via Exchange Server. Browsing is done through IE Mobile or Opera Mobile Web Browser, plus there is Google panel. Other features include a camera, streaming media player, podcast support and FM radio.

Product’s Unique Selling Points:

Customizable interactive panel interface
Full QWERTY keyboard
Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Edition
Wireless connectivity

Limitations:

Very expensive
Difficult to use navigation keys
Tolerable web browsing

Final Words:

This phone is packed with some great features, though most of those are available in almost every Windows Mobile Phone. Also, the high price tag makes it more than a consumer product, and it becomes more like a luxury item.

Written by “Seemab”

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