The new forums will be named Coin Return (based on the most recent vote)! You can check on the status and timeline of the transition to the new forums here.
The Guiding Principles and New Rules document is now in effect.
Cell Phones: Samsung Captivate (Galaxy S) or Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
oniian
Registered User regular
Registered User regular
Just wondering if anyone has an experience/recommendations for either the Samsung Captivate (Galaxy S) or Sony Ericsson Xperia X10?
Is either one a good phone for productivity? Is the Sony's appeal mainly in terms of it social network capabilities?
Is either one a good phone for productivity? Is the Sony's appeal mainly in terms of it social network capabilities?
oniian on
0
Posts
Currently painting: Slowly [flickr]
Sony makes some extremely nice, extremely stylish hardware. This phone is a pretty little brick in your hand. It's a powerful little device and there's plenty of stuff you can do with it. I imagine, however, that basically it is the same as most smartphones in terms of general capabilities. There's nothing really hardware specific that should drive you towards the X10, other than the design. For me, it was the first high powered android phone to hit the Japanese market, so I jumped on it.
Where Sony is great with hardware, however, it is completely horrible with software. Not to say that it simply doesn't function, but let's put it this way. After cycling the battery from 0% power to 100% several times to get it ready for normal use, the average battery life was 18 hours. That's in idle with the screen off.
After rooting it and removing Sony's software which insisted on restarting itself every 30 seconds after being turned off, I can sometimes get 50 hours of idle time out of the battery. It's ridiculous.
Pair that with their amazingly slow rate of updates for the phone. I can never understand how giant companies with piles of money take eight months to finish what some guy in his apartment can code in a week. Sometime this week or next the X10 will finally be getting Android 2.1 (it was 1.6 when everyone else was 2.1). I assume we'll see 2.2 sometime near the summer of 2011.