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This is the year I upgrade my Treo 650. I know that probably got a few chuckles as the Treo has moved from the most popular smartphone on the market to the “I can’t believe you still use that brick”. Well, just to let you know I’m not impressed with people totally consumed with their cellphones. I consider them electronic leashes and make us work many more hours then we really need to. I personally, want to use less technology when I’m out of the office, not just work more on a smaller (third screen). With that being said, I’m really excited about the new crop of smartphones coming out. In particular the Sony Ericsson EXPERIA X1, another EXPERIA Website (Flashed, good images).

This is a professional phone running microsoft mobile, and will be released on the T-mobile network. My Verizon account should be up by the time they release it so I will definitely jump over…If Verizon (Voyager) or Att (iPhone) doesn’t have some better products.

The hardware is also very compelling with a keyboard that felt great when I ran my fingers across it since it felt like metal and each key had a bit of an angle on it so it was quite tactile. There is also a large space bar and the keys are well-spaced for text input. There is a 3.2 megapixel camera and I am hoping this will take decent photos, unlike other WM devices. There is something over 400MB of flash ROM available to the end user our of the box and you can use microSD expansion cards too. It runs on a 500 Mhz processor and has a beautiful 3 inch WVGaA 800×480 display. WiFi and Bluetooth are included, as well as an FM radio and GPS receiver.
Source: [ZDNET] MWC08: The XPERIA X1 is one slick Windows Mobile device!

Can’t wait to see one in person. I really hope the metal finish and 3.2 megapixel camera are as good as they sound.