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what's up everyone John rhett endure from TechnoBuffalo here at the first look at probably the smallest smartphone on the planet the Sony Ericsson Xperia x10 mini so once again the folks at Negri electronics really came through there was a big time hooked us up with this incredibly small and miniscule yet fully featured smartphone this little guy packs a 5 megapixel camera 3g gps all the other stuff do you expect in a full-featured smartphone in a package that is crazy small but enough of me talking about it let me go ahead and show you so here is the Box Xperia x10 mini the folks at Negri are selling this phone for just about three hundred eighty bucks in case you're interested I'll put a link down in the underbar you've got some pictures of the phone on the front on the side some specs which clearly aren't Russian and some sort of IMEI stuff on the front now the box looks pretty normal you don't expect to phone this size to come out of a box this big but let's go ahead and take a look and we will use of course the obligatory hopefully don't cut your finger off big old knife so we'll go ahead and cut the plastic all right so we've got another successful plastic cutting without any blood pull this off and here is the box go ahead and slide it open I think yes slide it open up there's some plastic there as well we'll go ahead and break this seal literally we got one more on this side as well alright now we will slide this off we can see that it's got a 2.6 inch diameter screen 3.5 millimeter headset jack 5 megapixel camera 3G speeds for European brands and the processor is a pretty robust actually 600 megahertz but you'll see why that's so robust you see the size of this phone we'll go ahead and pull this out and it almost looks like a toy there's a phone I'm going to show you what this looks like some other phones in just a minute AB let's see what else you're going to get in the box from Sony Ericsson so you've got a different back color choices you got green pink and I assume something less offensive there's a black one already on there you've got your wall charger micro USB charging port stereo headphones and some user information but enough of that let's take a look at this phone because this seriously if you guys ever seen Zoolander this looks like the Zoolander's phone it will go great with your orange mocha frappuccino it's going to take it out of the out of package if you look at this thing it is just unbelievably small I mean look at it next to here's an iPhone 4 for example I mean the thing is crazy here's like a normal-sized finger I mean the phone is just tiny here is its Big Brother the Xperia x10 you can see that there is just some difference here so let's go ahead and look at the phone and I will power it on and show you how it works I'm really excited actually to take a look at this thing so you've got sort of the standard array of sony ericsson Android buttons it is running a skinny version of Android 1.6 called time scheme with sort of Mediascape in there as well it's another way for you to manage all your contacts manage your media so you've got a menu button home button and a back button on the left-hand side of the phone you have nothing on the right-hand side of the phone you've got a volume rocker and a power button similar to what we have on the x10 there's your 5 megapixel camera with LED flash Xperia branding there is a 3.5 millimeter headset jack it looks like the microUSB charging ports on the bottom and on the top is your power and lock button so I'm really excited to power this thing on if you guys are going out and you don't want to carry a big phone with you this thing is going to be fantastic you're hardly even going to notice it let's go ahead and see if there is any sort of battery actually before we do that see if you can check out the size of the battery how this does take microSD storage you forgot a way to pull off the back it's like it just sort of prized off and again you can pick the color that you want a lot and go stay with the a bit more understated black so SIM card slot the GSM phone and the battery I assume is in there somewhere it comes with a 2 gigabyte micro SD card let's see we can figure out where the battery is on this guy it looks like that is just foam perhaps the battery is internal and non removable that would certainly make sense for a phone this small somebody put that back on so we're learning as we go let's go ahead and power it on and see if we have any juice to show you what this guy looks like I'm curious how you're going to type on a screen this is small I've really never seen a phone this miniscule before I'm not sure if it has this up there goes Sony Ericsson and sort of just as a reminder this is a 2.6 inch screen which is obviously very very small battery life you are going to be getting about 4 hours of talktime about 360 hours of standby time and it is a pretty nice 13 20 milliamp hour battery a resolution on the screen is 240 by 320 on is a capacitive touch screen so here we are let's go ahead and hit this to unlock we'll go ahead and select English save insert your SIM card and restart your phone cancel if we don't have a SIM card to pop in here right now and I think we should be bout in the operating system of the phone which is sort of interesting it's a different take on the media scape that we saw on the exterior x10 since the phone is so small you can't really have a row of icons across the bottom so I'm sort of arranging them now in the corners with a menu button in the middle I'm sure pulls up all of your applications now 600 megahertz processor is actually very fast certainly not a Snapdragon or another 1 gigahertz processor but is more than enough to power device of this size so you can go through and sort of pick all your options there's your menu of any conversations here let's go ahead and open a new message let's see what this keyboard looks like ok so here we have the keyboard on the x10 sort of your standard t9 looking keyboard either you can enable some sort of multi tap if you'd like as well we're going to have a very simple message and see how this works for smart phone reminiscent of a keyboard you've seen on standard flip phone although because it's Android assuming you can download sort of other waste input text I think something like swipe would probably be a perfect fit for this I'm going to go ahead and try and type something here three different blink so not the most accurate going to take time to input text but the phone does work and the keyboard certainly is going to take some getting used to they hit this button here on the side you get some other options you can get all of your shortcuts you get some happy faces a lot of happy faces and sort of your other things and go back and you are back at the keyboard let's go ahead and check out the operating system a little bit more and see what we have so we'll go back jump out of this and go home so look at the date certain you can hook up the Wi-Fi your Android notifications are still there you've got you can scroll through all your contacts if you had any or if I had any in here search having things in the corners actually works pretty well there's your dialog that goes into the mail which is where we just were go ahead and just delete that go back home once again sort of jump into your meat it's got a pretty nice-looking media you can go ahead and play music if you like or jump around shuffle songs tell me right now playing online content about the currently playing artists so it'll actually will find online content about the artists that's playing which is kind of neat go ahead and exit out of this so overall you get a pretty standard Android experience on a phone that is just absolutely tiny and miniscule and just for fun let's bring in one of the larger smartphones now on the market the Evo 4G and just take a look what these two things look like next to each other I mean it really looks like a Evo extra memory just looks so small does it look like a phone but the fact that it is is really impressive I'm shocked actually about the size of the x10 mini I review many many phones and there's not that much out there that really surprises me anymore but for when packing this sort of punch kind of screen that size is very impressive there's also a pro version coming out which is going to have a full slide-out QWERTY keyboard after hoping to get my hands on near future anyway guys I'm John Retton chick from TechnoBuffalo is sort of your first look at the Xperia x10 mini hope you enjoyed I'll see you the next video buh-bye you you