MWC: Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 to come with WM 6.5?

By Werner Ruotsalainen, Submitted Wednesday, February 13, 2008

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The, for leaking information on forthcoming mobile operating system versions (remember Windows Mobile 6? WM5 AKU3?) pretty much (in)famous Mobile-Review has just published their roundup of Sony-Ericsson phones (note that the article is in Russian; if you don't know the language, use Google Translator or Babelfish. Links to "translations" HERE and HERE, respectively). In there, they elaborate on the phone a bit (along with other, non-WM phones from S-E) - albeit, except for the OS info, not much more than my previous reports.

In a nutshell: they state the S-E folks aren't allowed to publicly demo the new (otherwise, pretty much working - at least this is what I've noticed at the press conference yesterday, see my remarks on the Japanese S-E guy sitting pretty close to me and using the device to check mails) device because it runs an early version of Windows Mobile 6.5, a "quick release" before WM7.

Source and a more thorough English translation of the text elaborating on this question: THIS article (thanks for SolSie for mentioning this!)

Note that, now, it's absolutely certain the device will have a microSD slot - not the proprietary Memory Stick something (I think it was Pro? I'm not sure) one mentioned in some preliminary specs. The latter would have pretty much killed the sales if there isn't a Memory Stick - microSD converter. And, of course, would have added unnecessary and, with microSD, pretty much avoidable bulk.

Submitted by Werner Ruotsalainen on February 26, 2008 - 10:24am.

GRiNSER, you're right. However, once you go for a given standard (say, microSD because, with the help of mini/SD adapters, they're the most versatile) and buy sometimes tens of Gigabytes of storage (for example, currently, I have a 8, a 4 and a 2-Gigabyte microSD card I can freely swap between my micro/mini/SD(HC)-capable devices), it becomes a real pain in the back when you can't use that much storage in your device and have to buy another high-capavity card you can't use in anything else.

Submitted by Werner Ruotsalainen on February 26, 2008 - 10:29am.

David, it'd certainly take a lot of time to discuss this stuff. While I'm not American myself and, being from a small country between West and East, I must speak / know several languages, I think Americans deserve some defense: learning foreign languages takes a LOT of time. It's perfectly understandable if someone prefers spending this time on something more productive, knowing that he most probably won't have problems with communicating with other people (at least in their home country - see my very bad experience with the native Barcelona folks and their knowledge of English / German - that is, the lack thereof) - after all, the de facto lingua franca is English today.