[XPERIA X1 General] orelsi:
Well, people, it has been 5 months since i got the phone and i think it's about time i shared some thoughts with you. Nothing special, just telling you my experiences so far.

I should start by saying that i hesitated between the Touch Pro and the Xperia for nearly 3 months. Then in december i decided to buy the X1. It was the best phone purchase related decision i have ever made :D! Usualy when I'm sure i want a certain phone, it turns out that the phone is crap. This time around after hesitating so much I made the absolutely right call :).

It is the best phone i have ever used/ touched/ bought and it is 100% the right phone for my needs. After trying out a lot of smartphones and pocket pc phones over the last 5 months (pretty much everything from Touch Pro/ HD, Omnia, N95, 96 and other Nokia devices to Motorola and Samsung) I came to the conclusion that the X1 is THE BEST phone in the world today. I don't see any direct threat for its superiourity until the Touch Pro 2 arrives.

I really cannot imagine how I have lived without it :D.

I'm not saying it is perfect - far from it. It has its flaws. But for this exact moment in time it has no competition.

I'm not going to do a review here of Pro's and Con's, but a simple list of what I use and my impressions.

I am happy, I never got any cracks (and there have been 5 or 6 major drops :D, one of wich was from over 1 meter and the phone hit a steel table's edge and some hard tiles ont he floor). The only thing that I really don't like is that a lot of dust and other stuff congregates in the edges of the screen. It was a stupid designer decision to make it that way (recessed). The battery rarely last more than 12 hours :(, but I use the device a lot hehe. The Camera sucks. It is blurry and slow etc. But w/e, I didn't buy a camera after all.

I really enjoy the overall shape of the device and the feel of it in the hand. It's solid, but fits good in my pockets. The slide mechanism is flawless (at least so far :)).

The mood lights are pretty cool and useful especially at night. The panels need more work though.

The phone is pretty fast after a hard reset, but gets progressively slower after i install 200+ apps hehe. I got around 140 games and more than 150 apps installed on it.

Here are the apps I use the most.

At first I did a lot of hard reseting, ROM try outs, apps and games intalations etc. After awhile i figured what i need and stuck with the original (now updated) ROM believe it or not. I made a folder with all the games and apps sorted out, which enbles me to reinstall them in a couple of hours.

At the beginning I used the Xperia primarily for Video (all the season of Prison Break ftw), YouTube and browsing (Opera>IE). Also some gaming :D and radio (online and panel).

After a month or so i started using Office, Mail clients and GPS (IGO 8)a lot more (I guess i had some major work going on at this time and some travelling).

Now the 3 apps i use the most are:

- Microsoft Reader (IMHO the best e-book reader out there). If you turn on ClearType there is no strain on the eyes and you could read for hours. By the way a side note. If you are a sci-fi fan and haven't read the Commonwealth series by Peter F. Hamilton you should be really ashamed of yourself ;). These books blew my mind away.

- SPB Insight. Very good RSS reader. I use it all the time. I really like to download a lot of articles and then read them whenever I don't have anything else to do (travelling on the train, stuck in traffic etc.).

- MP3 players !!! :D I got Pocket Player, Pocket Music and S2P, but what I use the most is Mort Player. It is outstanding. 1000 MP3s of my fav tracks ftw :).

I'm not into social networking apps, so I don't use Facebook and stuff. I really prefer to call or see someone face to face.

For movies I use WMP and convert the files beforehand with the AMAZING HD video converter by projection. For other types of files I use the Core Player 1.3 Thank you.

I use the outstanding WVGAfix by Cotulla for a lot for the games that are not in fullscreen (that is about 3/4 of them). Thank you.

A list of some other great apps that i like follows:

Astro Navigator 2

BEIKS Dictionaries

QuickMark (nice barcode reader)

VirtuaMouse (gives you a cursor :))

MagiCall (for the calls you DON'T want to take)

MP3 Trimmer (Cut your MP3s right in the phone and make your own ringtones without the use of a PC) A must!.

PhatNotes

Resco Photo Viewer (A mini Photoshop)

Pocket Cleaner

Resco Radio

Resco Audio Recorder

SKTools 9Great for tweaking)

SPB Time (I use the screensaver only)

SPB Weather 2.0 (It is one amazing weather app)

SPB Online (Incredible software giving you access to online games, TV and more)

WkTask (If you don't have this - you have nothing. Amazing task manager and today plug-in, changes the "x" button and a lot more)

Xperia Tweak

Calligrapher

HomeScreen PlusPlus (Absolutely a must for anyone. Gives you the ability to launch apps from the tray, monitor Xperia's temperature, CPU speed, battery drain and much more)

MorphGear (What can I say. Now i got 5 thousand (5000) games on my X1, from NES and SNES to Gameboy and SEGA, playable in landscape with customizable keyboard keys.)

WM Torrent

Skype

ICQ

PhoneEx (Great call manager, but strangely enough, prevents me from using 3G calling???) :confused:

Resco Today Plugin

Task Manager 3.1 (Beats the Windows XP task manager hands down)

There are more, but these are the best ones IMHO.

There were 2 other apps i tried, but i cannot palce the names right now. One was for controling the phone from the PC screen and the other used the phone as a second display for your PC. If i remember the names I'll post :D.

I bought some random cases for it, but what i really like to get is a case i saw on YouTube. It has spare battery slot and slots for SIM cards and MicroSD cards. I need a docking station too, but never got around to buying one.

Congratulations if you read the whole thing :D. These are thing that popped into my mind right away. I guess there is more, but I'm not going to bore you to death haha.

Feel free to ask me anything, post comments and better yet share your own thoughts and experiences.

:)