The way I see it is, stuff like this always gets outdated in a ridiculously short amount of time. If you're after the specs and the latest this and that, you'll always get left behind before you know it. So why not just get whatever looks and feels best to you? Software is the easiest thing to upgrade anyway. Can't wait to stick Sense UI on my X10 haha.

Strangely the interface on my gf's iPhone 3GS feels a lot crisper and smoother even though the CPU and ram are pants compared to that on my phone. Really speaks to how well Apple's optimized their UI.

are there no launchers in the marketplace that are compatible with the x10?

Just installed HTC Touch keyboard. Soooooo much better!

Wait til you try Swype. It'll blow your mind. ;)

hmm one reason i noticed with the battery life is.. some program after you shut it down with some sort of task killer will automatically come back on after a while.. like moxier email thingy. and the market update etc. ~ i had to kill it once every couple hrs

the battery on this phone is beyond terrible! it doesn't last half a day even 3G/wifi are off. ugh.. task killer/manager makes the phone act crazy.

mine doesn't do that.. Whenever I kill something it dies unless I reactivate it. Moxier only comes back if I open up my messaging apps.

My battery life just barely lasts about 35 hours on medium usage. How long have you had it? Mine dramatically improved after a couple of days. First couples days it could barely last a day. Now it's good for about 1.5 days.

Killing tasks on Android is stupid. Programs lay dormant when not being used, taking up only as much memory as they need. If a program is set to do things like sync every hour or whatever, of course it will start up again.

If you let it idle, it will just run that task every so often. If you kill the app, it has to run the app again when it goes to sync.. So really, using a task manager wastes battery life more than not using one.

the problem is though that program is still *ON* even though it's dormant. i don't care how much memory it's taking up coz it's not much, but the fact that it's "ON" it's draining my battery. like why the hell is ebuddy, market, mediascape etc still "ON" and dormant after you press exit? i find it stupid design flaw in android when i exit something.. i expect it to EXIT.. not lay dormant in the background doing unnecessary stuff. and when i run task manager. i also kill the task manager and only turn it on when i need it so technically it shouldn't take any battery life if any

after spending over an hr disassembling the x10 and replacing the entire housing + digitizer... i have one tiny lint on the inside of the screen that i didn't notice before putting it back together... FML..

and btw i can confirm 0.14 and 0.16 have a huge difference in battery life. i rebranded and switch to hk firmware running 1.0.14 and the battery life is bs lol..

why did you replace the housing? and what region/firmware is 0.14/0.16...?

pics?

Picture of the phone apart? I will take some picture tonite when I take it apart again to clean the lint

As for the firmware hk and the Roger one atm is .14 go with the uk one~ I'm using hk just coz I need the handwrite pad
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It's not "ON" unless it's intended to run in the background. Things like messengers, email checkers, etc of course have to be "on". But 99% of the programs you have installed will lay dormant and not use any CPU when cached.

^ interesting to know i'm gonna reflash my firmware to generic uk and not use task killer and see how long it last on standby

Just remember if you have email, gmail, facebook, twitter, stocks, weather, msn or any other chat apps, all syncing regularly, they still use battery. But instead of shutting down the apps, just disable sync, or set longer intervals.

i got the Zagg full body protector.. pretty good so far.

Give it a a month, the Zagg will turn slightly brownish and you'll have lint stuck on the edges of the shield. I've had mine for about a month and that's what happening. It ain't that bad, but it's annoying to see lint on it when u look at it up close.

Zagg is good at protecting the phone from scratches, but the feel of it on the touch screen just ain't that great. It's very rough to the touch.

I would be careful flashing your X10a with X10i firmware. If you do this, you won't be able to get firmware updates from Sony. I have a Rogers X10a with X10i firmware and that's the case.

However, I've posted a way to get back to X10a firmware on XDA forum, which I got from one of the guys working on rooting the X10.

I checked out the X10 mini today, it's actually quite a neat little phone! It definitely could use a better firmware, but that is apparently coming by the end of the year. The screen sucks when you're used to AMOLED too.

Is the touchscreen big enough for a dude though? Was fat-fingering an issue playing around with it?

Seemed OK just playing around with it. I didn't try typing on it though

But no dude should buy this phone :lol

really don't know whether to get x10 or iphone 4. great thing about x10 is the camera, iphone's upped it's camera but it still doesn't have the awesome features x10 does. what are your thoughts?

what do you like about the iphone? Or what do you like to have in a phone?
What features of the x10 are awesome?

I've used my X10 for about 1.5 months now.

Camera
The camera is by far amongst the best cameras on any phone out there at the moment. The picture quality in daylight is on par with regular point & shoots. In low-light it is a bit lacking (lots of noise in the picture). The LED flash doesn't help much since it causes the colours in the picture to be whitened and you have to manually turn on the LED light and keep it on while taking the picture (it doesn't flash on when u take the picture and then off after taking it).

Screen
The 4" screen is the biggest you can get (aside from the HTC Evo 4G which is at 4.3"). The screen is crisp and clear. Great for watching videos. The viewing angle is pretty good. You can see the picture from almost any angle, but the colours do seem a bit washed-out as you view it away from center. The resolution is 854 x 480, which is higher than most phones (most are 800 x 480) except the iPhone 4G (960 x 640).

Social Integration
This is the selling point of the phone with its Timescape and Mediascape applications. It allows you to view everything you have about a contact in one convenient location via their contact card or via the Timescape app: Facebook/Twitter statuses, Usual contact info, call log, SMS, email, photos of the person on your phone. You can also view Youtube videos of an artist or find other music by that artist via viewing the artists' "contact' card when you are playing their music.

These are the selling points and advantages I see for the X10.