I already in bed with Nokia E71 and no regrets.

I think Sony Erisson is quite silly. Always show the phone not immediate ready for market. User needs to wait for 6 months. At the time it arrives, that phone is not competitive any more. They never get this right.

It is very encouraging to see these windows mobile pdas/ smartphones from regular mobile phone companies in very impressive sleek small form factors. Earlier devices from O2 , Vodaphone, T-mobile and other OEMs have been very crude and bulky. Iphone , blackberry , Omnia , nokia n series have just moved the bar up . Wish this phone had a 5 or 8 megapixel decent camera as well , as sony ericsson phones have always had better camera and music functions.

I hope my P910 holds another month before I get my hands on this beauty. Unfortunately, I think the only buyers will be people who actually use the devices for their intended purpose. 

To make it a good financial success for SE, they would have to dumb it down, lock it down, blackmail the users and put a mirror on the back, so that people can score chicks with them like that other "smart phone"

A slight correction to one comment in the article that stated the X1 is designed by HTC; HTC are manufacturing the handset for Sony, but it was designed almost fully by Sony's engineers, not HTC's.