Sony Ericsson will launch its Xperia X10 smartphone in the United States on AT&T’s network Aug. 15, the companies said Monday. The device’s unique Mediascape app collates music, photos, videos and other multimedia content that resides on the phone’s memory card or online, enabling users to browse, search, listen and share media from a single unified view, the handset maker said.
AT&T intends to price the new Android-based smartphone at $149.99 for users who sign up for a two-year service agreement and minimum smartphone data plan. According to Sony Ericsson Senior Vice President Paul Hamnett, the U.S. launch of the Xperia X10 will raise the bar for entertainment-rich phones. “With the convergence of our user-experience platform and the Android OS, we are bringing consumers a smartphone experience that is not only exciting, but also very refined,” Hamnett said.
A Social Organizer
Sporting a four-inch touch display, a one-gigahertz Snapdragon processor, and GPS technology, the Xperia X10 is equipped with one gigabyte of on-board memory and a 2GB in-box microSD card that can be replaced by higher-capacity cards with up to 32GB of memory. The new Android-based smartphone also is equipped with an 8.1-megapixel camera with LED flash and features smile detection, face recognition, and autofocus capabilities.
On the software side, the device’s new Mediascape app will enable users to view photos taken on the device as well as stored online in Facebook and Picasa web albums. Handset owners listening to a favorite song on the phone, for example, will also be able to press the device’s infinite button to access related content about the artist that either resides in the phone’s memory or online — such as YouTube video content as well as search results from Google.
What’s more, the handset’s Timescape app will automatically organize in chronological order all the user’s social interactions…