X10 Flop or Not?

[Jeremy Sikora]

Some of the previous Sony devices have looked nice only to be duds. Namely their Windows Mobile devices. Just curious what some of you think about this upcoming device. Based on their previous pricing points and lack of carriers here in the US I'm thinking not much will change with this device. Flop.

Share your thoughts here.

[TaeKwonDonkey]

Looking at what it is so far, I'd say flop but then again you never know. Besides my decision making about phones has been skewed by the n1

[Flyguide83]

I'm not sure anyone will shell out what they want for one of these guys right now.. You can get a damn big bang for your buck under $500 right now...

[dtboos]

Gonna be a very nice phone, but it will have two failing points:

1. Price - who will pay that much? Not many.

2. UI + Future upgrades - SE is very bad at making timely upgrades, and their Rachael UI is very slick, but very intensive. Submit yourself to being at least 3 updates behind at all times.

UI also has potential to not be ironed out enough and laggy interface on a piece of hardware that expensive = no thanks.

[Cory Streater]

I agree with the above points. A lot of fuss is made about their devices, and yet they always disappoint in the end.

[goBadger]

first of all, great to see SE x10 forum is finally set up.

reasons for flop :

no doubt its launch date is too late, man, how long did you see SE devices finally cone out after announce date ? 3 months for the X1. too many powers are coming out even before the X 10.

rumored with Android 1.6 ? no way man, if so, come on SE you're left years behind at this point. 65,000 colors ? wow, i know it's because of the 1.6 os, it would be a huge waste of the 4.0 screen and its beautiful look as well.

price tag ? around $800 ? wow, wow , wow. never thought of ditching current contract and switching to this one.

so, SE please do something let us poor people enjoy your power.

[frettfreak]

I have to admit it looks really nice and the UI looks like it could be cool.. but as mentioned above Price, launch date, and SE (i am not a fan of sony at all really).

The device does look pretty cool though... and spec wise its awesome

[peter2010]

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 not sold out is huge quantity. It will go full flop. Samsung corby better from that phone.

[iknewya]

it should be good in europe!
since its free with contracts usually
vodafone is to stock it from april in the uK

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

I held back any guesses the first time around on this. Now I just can't be optimistic any longer.

It's gonna flop. By the time it finally comes out for sale the market for a high end Android handset will already be filled - once again by Google. N1 with timely bugfixes and updates as soon as they leave Mountain View, or the X10 with SE's track record of waiting forever even to find out exactly how long you have to wait for software changes.

The UI on the x10 is absolutely incredible. But not enough to guarantee the handset's success.