Ok so not sure how many of you know this but X10 was a really poor choice for a model designation on this phone. The reason for this is X10 is an industry standard term for a category home automation devices and given the look of this phone it's probably gonna confuse some people. That said otherwise looks good but I have a feeling it's gonna be beyond pricey given it's specs.

For those interested in a similar phone for less cash Motorola just released a couple based on ripped off HTC designs designe to directly compete with the iPhone, the Droid and the CLIQ. I say based on HTC designs cause it's pretty obvious they were looking at the touch pro models when they designed them. Anyway they have near identical specs to the iPhone except for higher quality cameras, better support for the various cellular standards and are proprietary BS free ie they use standard USB connectors and Android for an OS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_XPERIA_X10

Resolution nearly 3x what the iphone sports, but having no keyboard is a gamebreaker for me

I wonder if it'll be sporting one of those nice snapdragon/omap 1GHz processors and a nice large screen aka 3.8"+

I also wonder why not Android 2.0 if it's going to be released next year... Not that it would be a problem to update

So, are sony getting their fruity phone clones's firmware right at last?

This seems to be the main problem for most smartphones these days - hangs, crashes, poor user interface design. Have sony debugged its firmware at last or have they just added a few fancy screen effects?

Sony Ericsson releases more of the same...