Sony Ericsson's Mini Android Phone - Sony Ericsson X10 Mini

Is the new Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini simply jumping on the bandwagon started by Nokia and their N97 Mini phone? Well, not exactly as the new Sony X10 Mini phone takes things even smaller coming out as the smallest Android phone ever to be produced.

Just to make it an even more attractive proposition the manufacturer has also released the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro (now this is getting to be a mouthful!) which incorporates a full slide out Qwerty keyboard.

All this and we still haven't even seen the release of the original Sony Ericsson X10 Android phone which is due any day now.

Judging by the array of colour schemes available for the new Xperia X10 Mini it looks as though this compact new phone will be aimed firmly at the youth and fashion market as in the case of the N97 Mini.
The colours on offer include White, Silver, Black, Lime Green and that all important Pink edition.

You might think that stripping back on the overall dimensions would effect the performance of this new Xperia phone, but actually the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini still offers a high end 5.0 mega pixel camera, WiFi, 3.5G support, GPS, FM Radio, 3.5mm audio jack and an expandble memory - pretty impressive from a phone that weighs a mere 88g!

Powering this new phone is a 600MHz Qualcomm processor which along with the 'Panels' UI and the Android OS makes for speedy navigation, there is also access to the Android Market which continues to add new applications daily for download.

A big query has to be whether the smaller 2.55 inch touch screen is going to be big enough to enjoy all of those features as well as the Android operating system? Sony Ericsson looked to have re-jigged the homescreen with shortcuts placed in each corner for easy finger tip access but when it comes to viewing videos and surfing the internet can this smaller screen size really deliver?

The addition of the Qwerty keyboard in the Mini Pro version of the new Xperia X10 might come in very handy as we can only imagine that the smaller screen size is likely to make using an on-screen Qwerty keyboard pretty tricky.

Both the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Pro and Mini are scheduled for release in Q2 of 2010 with the original X10 due for launch very soon.