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hey guys it's jeff Farina with pocket now calm you've seen us put the xperia x10 from sony ericsson through its paces and now it's time to give you the final review so let's get started first off moving right into some of the pros of the device the hardware is extremely solid it is built like a tank the back piece is actually coated in a soft touch paint which gives it a great grip as well as comfortable feel before in screen offers plenty of real estate when navigating through the menu system as well as using some of the applications such as tweet casts only kept things consistent here by using the micro USB port which is a great thing because every Android device or most of the Android devices currently are using this port what that means is any spare AC adapters you may have any spare USB cords battery packs that have a USB cord coming off of it will be compatible with the Xperia x10 and that's always nice to save some money the camera quality on the Xperia x10 is actually superb it is an 8.1 megapixel camera and typically Sony Ericsson's devices take very good pictures and this is no exception the pictures are very good as you'll see some examples in our final post keeping on the camera note the fact that this device implements a dedicated camera button makes life much easier it is a lot easier and faster minds you to pull the phone out of your pocket very quickly and hold down the dedicated camera button to actually bring up the camera when you want to have a picture very quickly let's say you see something that you want to show to all your friends and it happens and you know in a blink of an eye you can do that with this the other thing is typically with phones like the iPhone or the other Android devices that do not have a dedicated camera button you have to actually touch the screen in order to take the picture what happens is when you do that a lot of the times you'll actually shake the phone and lose focus but by having this here you can hold the phone very sturdy and very steady mind you and pressed on that button and now you can take a picture and lastly this is a kind of general overall pro as many know the selection of Android devices on the 18-team network is not the greatest therefore any edition is very welcome this device is an addition therefore it is very welcome now it's time to talk about some of the negatives of the device or what needs work and the first we're going to touch on is actually the battery is a 1500 milliamp hour battery and sony rates it at being able to get up to eight hours of talk time however we found that was not the case we were just barely able to make it through a full day with very light use and what that means is the phone was only used to send a few text messages a few emails maybe browse to one website zero phone calls so that's very very light use if you're going to be making a lot of phone calls on this playing games browsing the market composing a lot of emails browsing the web you're going to find the battery life to be pretty abysmal that may be specific to just our device here in that case we hope it is but off the wait see another issue we found was also having to do with the camera while the picture quality was superb the video quality was not video clips were very choppy very grainy overall had bad sound and just really didn't seem to impress especially when the picture quality was as good as it was well the timescape and media scape apps are a great idea we found that they often could not connect to our networks we constantly were getting errors that I cannot connect to the Twitter network as well as the Facebook network to receive the updates while browsing through one aggregated central feed for all of our social networks is a great idea in theory it works great and actually while was working it works great fact we weren't able to keep up to date because it was not able to refresh really kind of cripples the service so if Sony can put some work into these applications and make sure they do connect every time it can definitely be great to use lastly we had some major problems with our screen now this may be just a local issue but the calibration of the screen quality did not seem to be fully there typing on the screen long length text messages was extremely frustrating and took five or ten minutes for a simple small email that is because it was not accurate when typing on the keyboard this may be something that can be corrected in a future software update sony has commented that they will be releasing android 2.1 over the 1.6 that is currently available so we're hopeful that will actually be bundled in that update will have to wait and overall the Xperia x10 from sony ericsson is a good device as we said any addition to the 18 teen network in terms of the android selection is very welcome and this does bring Android to you unfortunately it's only going to be android 1.6 and we had those screen issues also with 140 $99 price point you can spend fifty dollars more and get a great device like the samsung captivate so that's something that definitely keep in mind if you're a newbie to the android operating system however you won't be let down with this device it is definitely a great entry to mid-level Android device and is a major player in that market as always thank you very much for watching everyone be sure to read our full review right on this page or on pocketnow.com to get all the full juicy details in which we weren't able to talk about on video please give us a thumbs up thanks for commenting and we'll see you again soon