Sony Ericsson Xperia X1

• Firstly Windows Media Player doesn’t allow for resumed playback of videos and audio and although the decibel level is quite decent the overall quality could have been better if EQ settings were available like in some of the other WinMob devices.
• Secondly, I preferred the use of the Sony Ericsson media player from the Media Panel since it had a ‘resume playback option’ but it seemed like every time I needed to pull up the menu to even increase the volume the video would get paused. Go figure.
• The ‘flicking’ option for scrolling through images is also ‘glitched’, for lack of a better term. While viewing one image a swipe in a direction won’t go to the next image. Instead it opens up the whole gallery once again and you’ll have to use the onscreen buttons for navigating the image gallery.

On the plus side the brilliant 480 x 800 pixel display looks great for pretty much all media including videos and images provided you're not trying to view any in bright daylight. Don’t let the fact that it supports just 64K colors as opposed to 256K or 16 million deter you in anyway. The odds of you making out the difference are a million to one. The 3.5mm earphone socket makes it very convenient to use a set of your own earphones for a better audio experience.

GPS
The Xperia is equipped with an integrated GPS receiver that uses Google Maps as the native mapping software. For the price, I expected something better. SatNav, Route66, hell even Nokia Maps would have been a better option. Google Maps, although a great application is not something you’d expect to be using in a GPS enabled handset with A-GPS support.

Quick GPS is available for enabling the handset to help it determine the GPS mapping co ordinates a little quicker.

Misc Features
All the regular features you'd expect to find in a WinMob device are present. From MS document viewers and editors to the more mundane features like an Alarm clock, Calendar, Notes section, Tasks, the regular games like Solitaire and Bubble Breaker with a few others like Bejeweled and Sudoku thrown in. The Search option and e Java support are also part of the features available.