Xperia X10 official specs - WTF?
Tuesday, 3. November 2009, 09:13:00
Today Sony Ericsson launched an official Xperia X10 page and they have a specification info there. Looking through it raised a few questions in my head.
Basically there is no useful info except for 8MP camera info. Wow! Everyone buys smartphones because of 8MP cameras! That is why smartphones exist! Yeah, right...
I would like to ask smartphone manufacturers to publish hardware specs because this is the only specs smartphone buyers care for! Everything about CPU, RAM, internal storage, chipset and so on. Imagine you visit HP/Dell/Apple/whatever web site to choose a laptop. There is a shiny one and specs goes: shiny screen, shiny keyboard, shiny 8MP web-cam. And that's it! Would you consider buying it? I think NO! So, don't be stupid and publish hardware specs!
This post is generally made because Acer detuned its Snapdragon to 700Mhz. Which sane person will buy detuned Snapdragon? That's an epic fail for Acer. So if SE will also detune their X10 their smartphone will automatically become a crap.
- 16,536 color TFT touchscreen. 16k colours? WTF? 14-bit colour? In XXI century? I hope this is typo, because such screen would be useless.
- X10 is supposed to be an Android device, a smartphone, a mobile computer that is. Where are SPECS? I mean hardware specs! Who cares about SMS support? If you sell smartphone then your specs page must start with CPU type, its frequency, RAM type, its capacity and so on. These are essential for such device! Not a messaging capabilities, but hardware specs!
- Where is OS info? Which Android version is inside? Is it really Android? Will it support Google products like Market?
- WiFi™. What WiFi? G? N?
- Etc...
Basically there is no useful info except for 8MP camera info. Wow! Everyone buys smartphones because of 8MP cameras! That is why smartphones exist! Yeah, right...
I would like to ask smartphone manufacturers to publish hardware specs because this is the only specs smartphone buyers care for! Everything about CPU, RAM, internal storage, chipset and so on. Imagine you visit HP/Dell/Apple/whatever web site to choose a laptop. There is a shiny one and specs goes: shiny screen, shiny keyboard, shiny 8MP web-cam. And that's it! Would you consider buying it? I think NO! So, don't be stupid and publish hardware specs!
This post is generally made because Acer detuned its Snapdragon to 700Mhz. Which sane person will buy detuned Snapdragon? That's an epic fail for Acer. So if SE will also detune their X10 their smartphone will automatically become a crap.
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Shaunak De # 6. November 2009, 09:49
First up, on a mobile device with limited storage space, each photo is going to weigh in on the memory.
More importantly, its 8 mega pixels from the same crappy 1/6th inch sensor. Its gonna suck under low light conditions.
Thirdly: its a phone god damn it. Not a camera.
And I really don't think the 16K is a typing mistake. :x
Aux # 6. November 2009, 17:46