The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini and Mini Pro both rely on its form factor to move some units so it shouldn’t be surprising to see these Android handsets get some custom shells.
You can now get these teeny Android phones in gold or pink and both should add a little visual panache to your device. But is the color enough to make this thing attractive?
The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini and Mini Pro boast decent specs: Android, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, 5-megapixel cameras and 2.55 inch touchscreens. We took a look at these little smartphones and came up with a relatively mixed verdict.
The X10 Mini and the X10 Mini Pro are some pretty interesting phones. The camera seems too powerful for something so small, Android should be a pain to navigate on a screen that size, and on paper, the idea of a keyboard on the Mini Pro sounds like it just wouldn’t fly – yet all of these things happen on the X10 Minis. And bless Sony Ericsson for finally getting Android working reasonably smoothly on one of their phones. The original X10 was a complete headache.
There is of course, plenty of room to improve: Timescape, though some nice enough eye candy, still has some proper functionality it could include. The Infinity button idea is still foreign and useless, and should be taken out back just like Mediascape, and in order to make the X10 Mini really work, it needs a landscape keyboard. Android 1.6 will be a big strike against these handsets for aficionados, but Sony Ericsson has promised that updates are on the way.
So who should pick up the Mini or Mini Pro? Light smartphone users who are primarily interested in something fashionable that can take good pictures, and handle messaging in a pinch. Hardcore users will likely be left unsatisfied with the smaller screen, weak battery life, and older operating system, but casual users won’t notice or care.
Check out another picture below and our hands-on time with the Android Mini and Mini Pro.
[Via SEMC]