Sorry for the late reply friends, was out of town for a couple of days!
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Originally Posted by raj_5004 Same here.
But if the screen it set to max brightness, it takes up a lot of power. also, some games, especially Angry birds (!!!) suck up the battery like anything. Calls & normal usage does not affect the battery life much.
by the way, have you installed any apps? any good apps to share? |
Yes, max brightness setting will suck the battery badly since it is a large 4" screen. But to be honest, full brightness hurts my eyes! for me, brightness is actually a step or two higher than the half! Good enough for me to enjoy the uber cool blue interface of X10!
About the apps, I can enlist what do I have on my phone.
Though I can root my phone easily and can get into doing tricky modifications, I just don't bother with all that stuff. Partially because I don't have spare time from my studies, and secondly, may be those of my days are over when I used to try these things just for the sake of it!
Anyway, list of apps -
1. Astro File Manager - really good file managing app
2. Adobe Reader - no prize for guessing!
3. Angry Birds - Read the comment above! haha...
4. Asphalt HD - Again, a cool game with decent graphics.
5. Automatic Task Killer - to take care of stuff running in background
6. Cam Scanner - beautiful app!
7. Chess - a pretty good time pass game
8. Documents to go - a must for me, enables me to create, read and edit office documents on my phone!
9. Google package - including maps, voice recorder, gtalk, gmail, translate, goggles etc etc.
10. Handcent SMS - hands down, best sms app for android
11. Amazon Kindle - every body knows it!
12. Labyrinth - an amazingly addictive game, I am a fan since my iPhone 3G days!
13. Midnight Bowling 2 - another cool game
14. Opera Mini - replacement for default web browser
15. Adobe Photoshop Express
16. Shazam - another must have!
17. Skype - parents love it that I have it on my phone!!!
18. Touch Pool - another timepass game
19. Unblock Me - Puzzle game, just like Labyrinth I am having it on my phone since my iPhone 3G days!
20. Vignette - Best Cam application for X10 (IMO). Just love the timelapse feature and photo quality is much better!
21. Winamp - needs no introduction!
22. XDA app - for their forum! Wish TBHP had similar app for android and iOS! Mods, are you listening?
23. Yahoo package - Ymail and Ymessenger!
Should be good enough for now!!!
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Originally Posted by JayD That's great, Ace. But is Background Data enabled or disabled on your phone? ie are there any mail or other accounts on auto sync? Coz i don't see an Edge or 3G icon on the taskbar. |
Hello JayD, yes I do have 3G ('H' in case of Android 2.1 on my X10) on my phone. But the I keep automatic syncing off, partially because it saps battery, and partially because I don't like spending a lot of time on Facebook and others during day time! I check my mails and facebook once in the morning and then, in the evening! Trust me, if I was getting all facebook updates instantaneously, I would have spent at least couple of hours everyday on facebook replying people and commenting on their status... lol!
All the settings I have, my phone easily churns out 2 days of battery backup! If I treat my phone as 'Nokia 1100' for making calls and sending texts, 3-4 days are not surprising!
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Originally Posted by kratos11 Raj/Ace
Since you guys are using X10 for quite a while & upgraded to 2.1 did the screen resolution changed to 16M colors now?
Also is X10 capable of 2.2 update coz of its hardware limition of 384 MB RAM as against the minimum 512 required ?
Any other worhwhile improvements seen in 2.1 upgrade as compared to 1.6 ?
Sorry for some really noob questions, I'm novice in the Andriod arena |
Hello Kratos11, Raj has already answered your query but I can add a few more points.
It all depends how to perceive a couple of things about Xperia X10. Frankly, if you can spot a difference in X10's 65000 colors screen and any other phone's 16 million colors screen, you are the man!!! I can't spot it, X10 screen looks as sharp and as crisp that I fail to understand the fuss behind retina display of iPhone 4 (Even though I understand iPhone 4 display is slightly better in certain aspects).
No word from SE about 2.2 update, though they have announced that they are going to enable Multi-Touch in their next update for X10. Read this -
Work Ongoing on Pinch Zoom for Xperia X10 | Product Launch Blog
As far as I understand X10's memory, it has 256MB RAM with 128MB dedicated for better graphics! So, thats how it is a total of 384MB. As said above, no word from SE about froyo update, but Developers are spending a lot of time cracking the X10 bootloader and are very close to success! Once that is done, cook your own ROM and enjoy it on your X10.
My honest advice, if you are a type of guy willing to buy something for big numbers such as 16 million colors and 2.2 or 2.3 Android, DO NOT buy Xperia X10. Sony will just disappoint you constantly. However, if you take the X10 as it is, it is a really cool looking and smooth functioning phone and will NOT disappoint you in any way.
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Originally Posted by Car-e-ok Alright guys, i got lucky today . I managed to download 2.1 on my XPERIA X10. And to be honest i am very impressed with 2.1 . Lots of bugs have been fixed and its way too easy to use now . I love the live wallpapers being supplied. All i need is that software " Andwobble" which will enable me to make normal photos as live. I was that much close to sell my XPERIA. Now i think i can compete with galaxy owner. |
Congrats Car-e-ok, enjoy your X10 even more now! And by the way, I don't believe SGS and X10 have any competition.
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Originally Posted by raj_5004 I would actually recommend the X10 over the galaxy now, especially after the update.
Specs on paper are not just everything. I have compared both the phones side by side & the X10 just feels better in the way it works! i mean, the whole UI, the graphics, everything is very stylistically put together. so i enjoy using the X10 more.
Main thing that worked for me in favour of X10 was it's better cam & better service support of SE compared to Samsung. |
Rightly said Raj, X10 may not be the best on paper, it works like a charm in reality. That being said, SGS attracts a whole different type of customers than X10! To me, SGS's interface is a big turn off! Looks like a cheap replica of iPhone.