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hey guys john r Ettinger from TechnoBuffalo here at the review for you of the sony ericsson xperia x1 i know this is an older phone and i mentioned this in the unboxing but it was one of the few devices that i hadn't had a chance to check out i was really curious about the form factor and the operating system so while this is not the most modern of devices it's still a pretty interesting one so i thought that i would give you my impressions on it so the x1 is running windows mobile 6.1 but scott i sort of a unique take on Windows Mobile and I'll show you that in a minute spec wise it's got a very strange screen it's 3 inches diagonal it can show over 65,000 colors which is quite nice it's got a 480 by 800 resolution just a little bit weird but not bad and again it's a resistive touchscreen so one of the cool things about the x1 and I'll go ahead and jump right in here and show you what it is your windows mobile 6.1 homescreen is nothing fancy but what sort of is the flagship of the Xperia Lion and what's going to be the flagship of the x2 which is replacing this running Windows 6.5 is this panel interface let me show you what that looks like there's a panel button in the bottom right hand corner which pulls up a row of sort of new skins home screens think of it like touchflo 3d but you can change different touchflo 3d skins and there are different panels that you can download here are some of the most popular I'll show you what they look like so access a panel all you do is just give it a click so we'll go ahead and pick one we'll pick fish it pulls up does a little refresh and you are good to go now from the surface this fish thing just looks kind of gimmicky ghen you know not so not so useful but there's a lot more below the hood the fish will change color if you have messages or missed calls more official show up depending on whether not you have messages waiting certain it takes a little bit of a luck to get used to it but it is surprisingly useful you can move the fish around they're just a fun thing to have a few other panels here and you see how quickly the panel interface does respond and I'll show you this works in landscape as well you can use some that are a little more useful You certainly have like different for for business or for pleasure and there are a lot more things you can use here's a little more useful panel with an array of icons at the bottom a big analog clock and you definitely know update the panel or whatever you like and there are several choices here you can go ahead and choose from their range of different utilities some are more calendar-based some are more media based and there are a few more that you can download does work in landscape go ahead and pop it open let's have a relatively quick refresh rate as well go ahead and hit panel button and then you get the same thing sort of in a portrait mode you can fit a little differently if you want to sort a fan across them some need animations you get sorry the utility of that is is questionable but it definitely looks pretty so the xperia x1 is running Windows 6.1 or windows mobile 6.1 which is already antiquated operating system in fact it was antiquated almost when it was released about how it's been supplanted by Windows Phone and we're commonly known as windows mobile 6.5 certainly be very hard to recommend an older device running antiquated operating system like the xperia x1 especially at the almost $700 price point that most retail outlets are asking for it comes a very expensive phone it was expensive when it was first released and is surprisingly not seen that big a price drop I believe in the well over a year since it first came out so assuming that this is a phone that's probably not going to be in your budget what is nice and unique about it and sony and sony ericsson particular really known for a great build quality and the sony ericsson xperia x1 really has probably some of the best build quality i've seen on a mobile device it uses really strong metals the spring and sliding mechanism is very solid I believe this phone is actually built by HTC it's got sort of an arcing slider which you can see right there makes typing really nice and easy the keyboards are a little bit flush or is a little bit flush but they're really easy to type on it shouldn't easy to navigate with your fingers I'd say it's probably one of the better keyboards that I've actually used you feel definite like you're using a quality device the camera on the back is not the highest resolution but it's certainly usable at 3.2 megapixels and it takes very nice pictures surprisingly nice picture actually and the LED flash adds a nice touch I wouldn't use it as your primary camera as far as camera phones go was really his of one of the nicer sensors I've seen solid metal back and solid metal feel call quality was very good the radio seems to be pretty strong certainly you get this standard windows mobile 6.1 crashes I certainly had a few of them but hardware wise is a really nice device and it makes me very optimistic for the x2 coming out that's replacing it improved processors be improved Ram and really sort of a similar design so I think that there's a lot to be said for the x1 I think that it paved the way for some of the future generation devices we're going to see from Sony Ericsson like the x2 and the upcoming Android extent I believe this codenamed Rachel so this really is a say a forefront and a forbear some of the new phones were going to start seeing from Sony Ericsson and they did a really nice job with this but it's high price point and to pay top rent system makes it very hard to recommend and I hope you guys enjoy this review of the sony ericsson xperia x1 I'm John Retton gern I'll see you in the next video buh-bye