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Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini and Xperia X10 Mini Pro announced

Sony Ericsson just unveiled the Xperia X10 Mini & Xperia X10 Mini Pro a few hours ago in Barcelona during the pre – MWC conference today. If you remember we…

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Sony Ericsson just unveiled the Xperia X10 Mini & Xperia X10 Mini Pro a few hours ago in Barcelona during the pre – MWC conference today. If you remember we saw a couple of Xperia X10 Minipictures a couple of weeks ago so it was kinda expected that the handset will be made official today. But the big surprise came from the Xperia X10 Mini Pro which is basically an Xperia  X10 Mini with a 4 row sliding-qwerty keyboard! Here are the full specs of the devices:

Xperia™ X10 mini and X10 mini pro Sony Ericsson Timescape™ – brings together all communication in one place Four corner control – applications, calls, web, the consumer decides. Four customisable icons for ultimate control 5 megapixel camera and video – share creations via the web Music player links to music stores and YouTube™ – access the world of music Android platform – with Google™ services and Android Market™ QWERTY keyboard – slide and text for quick and easy messaging (Xperia™ X10 mini pro only)


Xperia™ X10 mini:

Size: 83 x 50 x 16 mm
Weight: 88 grams
Phone memory: Up to 128MB
Memory card support: SanDisk microSD™, up to 16 GB
Memory card included: 2GB
Operating system: Google™ Android 1.6
Processor: 600 MHz Qualcomm MSM7227
Talk time GSM/GPRS: Up to 4 hours
Standby time: GSM/GPRS: Up to 285hrs
Talk time UMTS: Up to 3.5 hours
Standby time: UMTS: Up to 360 hrs

Xperia™ X10 mini pro:

Size: 90 x 52 x 17 mm
Weight: 120 grams
Phone memory: Up to 128MB
Memory card support: SanDisk microSD™, up to 16 GB
Memory card included: 2GB
Operating system: Google™ Android 1.6
Processor: 600 MHz Qualcomm MSM7227
Talk time GSM/GPRS: Up to 4 hours
Standby time: GSM/GPRS: Up to 285hrs
Talk time UMTS: Up to 3.5 hours
Standby time: UMTS: Up to 360 hrs

Both phones Will ship with Android 1.6 and feature Sony Ericssons Timescape UI customized for the smaller screen (you now have for new soft buttons placed at each corner of the screen, those buttons can also be changed by the user. Both handsets also feature a 3.5mm jack, 5Mpix camera with LED flash & Auto-Focus and capacitive touchscreens. Availability is said to be Q2 2010.

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