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hey guys it's brandon minuman from pocketnow.com and this is the hardware tour for the sony ericsson xperia x1 now the x1 will come in a few different variants this is the x1 I meaning that it has 3g bands for AT&T in the United States so I took my AT&T sim card put it in the device configure itself and within a few moments i was using AT&T s 3g hsdpa network so let's take a look at the device to start its a mix of metal and plastic which is really nice to see we have brushed metal on the front if we look closer in at the top we have an ambient light sensor and we have over here and we have over here a front-facing video camera if we go to the bottom we have a few different buttons so right here is the sony ericsson xperia panel button and we'll talk more about that in another review we have a call start button and a left softkey to the right of that we've a call end key an ok button and a right softkey now unfortunately we don't have a start menu button which is very important if you're using it with one hand here in the center we have an optical joystick which you can use kind of like the epics and the samsung epix and the samsung omnia although it doesn't have a cursor it allows you to swipe your finger to the side to move to the right or if you're on a long web page or if you're on a list you can kind of move your finger like this but you also have the option of the standard d-pad surrounding the optical joystick here so that's really great on this side of the device we have the mini USB port which is used for syncing and charging sliding over to the right we have the speaker we turn over to the bottom we have the lanyard loop on the other side we have the camera button pressing it lightly one time will focus the camera pressing it all the way down will take the picture I've been over to the right we have a volume up and down rocker on the top we have the standby button and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack which is really great ok let's take a look at the back the back is covered with also a piece of metal the brushed metal which looks terrific up at the top here we have a flash for the camera which is 3.2 megapixels let's take off the back because that is where the micro SD card slot is hiding here it is unfortunately it's under the battery cover but it's easy to get to the battery is 1,500 milliamp hours which is a pretty good size and should give us a decent amount of battery life ok let's take a look at the keyboard the keyboard is spring assisted it has that arc slider design to give you a better viewing angle although the angle is just slight a few degrees let's take a look at the keyboard close up the keyboard is a four row keyboard it's not like the touch pro which has a dedicated number row right at the top the numbers are embedded in the letter so if you want to access them you have to press the blue button here and then the numbers like so the spacebar is super oversized it's it's the width of five keys i'm curious as to why they did this the keys are kind of flat although they have a little bit of a ridge on them if you can see that to help you feel for them so far I've found this keyboard to be as easy to type on as the HTC touch pro it's not amazing but it's definitely pretty good and then we have a start menu button here for quick access to that on the bottom right corner we have an ok button and that's pretty much it in terms of buttons for usability we don't have a right or left softkey so let's talk about the screen it's three inches diagonal and the resolution is wvga so that's 800 down and 480 across that's the maximum or allowed by Windows Mobile much higher than any other phone out there including the iphone the screen is not flush and some people were complaining about that though the first thing I noticed about the screen when I turned it on was that it had a really high sensitivity and I think it not being flush has something to do with that because the layers that need to press upon each other to register a screen press are now closer together because it is recessed another good thing about the screen is that it has a nice ledge on the right side so that if you're if you're moving scroll bars or you're trying to grab a scroll bar with your finger you can rest your finger against the ledge and easily find the edge of the screen so that's it for the hardware tour on the sony ericsson xperia x1 next up we're going to talk about the panels i know a lot of people have questions on how they work and what they actually do if you want to follow us and see videos before anyone else does be sure to subscribe to our Twitter account at twitter.com slash pocket now tweets and that's it for now