Sony XPERIA X1 Finally Dated

Today, Sony announced that the long awaited handset XPERIA X1 will finally hit the stores starting September 30 in UK and the rest of the world later on. For all that doesn't know what XPERIA X1 is here's the recap.

The XPERIA X1 is a windows mobile handset with a 3" WVGA 800 x 480 touchscreen display and a full QWERTY keyboard. It's a four band GSM and three band HSDPA, HSUPA handset powered with a 528 ARM CPU and 256 MB of RAM. It also boast a 3.2 megapixels camera, GPS, bluetooth, 3.5 mm audio output, FM radio and 400 MB of internal memory that's expandable through microSD card slot. This handset is sure going to create some more hype, but we'll see if it's worth it.

Sony Ericsson G705

Today Sony Ericsson just announced a new mobile phone in their portfolio, the SE G705. This slider phone has a 2.4" QVGA display with quad band GSM and either UMTS 2100 MHz HSDPA or UMTS 850/1900/2100 MHz HSDPA and HSUPA. The screen can be auto rotate that works in the menu and in the browser, thanks to the accelerometer built in. It comes with GPS receiver that supports A-GPS. The GPS works with the preinstalled Google Map and Wayfinder with three months of free navigation license. Image geotagging is also supported. The camera is 3 Megapixels with LED flash. Too bad it has no auto focus. One thing unique though is that the video captured by the camera can be uploaded directly to YouTube. YouTube downloads will also be possible. A stereo Bluetooth and FM radio with RDS, Wifi with DLNA certification, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync complete thd handset. It will come with 1GB M2 memory card in the retail package. The SE G705 will be available in Silky Gold or Majestic Black in early Q4 2008.

I don't know what's up with all of this company. A high end phones should equip with an auto focus camera whether it's a camera oriented phones, music oriented phones, or bussiness phones. It's not that hard to do right?