[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alex Atkin UK:
No for me too. The Qualcomm chipset in the X1 is weak, I have read plenty about even Qualcomm knowing it was vastly under-performing compared to what they intended. So not upgrading it in the X2 is plain stupidity.

I love the flexibility of WinMo but its about time they had iPhone quality hardware acceleration. Needless to say that would actually mean the GPU would need to be MORE powerful than an iPhone because of the higher resolution screen. I chose the X1 over iPhone due to the greater resolution and now I think I made the wrong choice. The saving grace has been the camera which is very nice indeed, though painfully slow so only works for stationary objects. When I press the shutter I do not expect the photo to be taken 3 seconds later, and thats after I ALREADY half pressed it and locked focus.

Higher megapixel camera?

I'm sorry but I do not believe in reality it will look any better. Its a known fact that cameras are restricted more by their physical size and that the more megapixels they do at the same size, you just reduce their light sensitivity and introduce more grain rather than detail. The X1 camera is pretty good IMO, its vastly more important to improve the sensitivity than cram more pixels in there which ultimately is likely to make the quality worse not better. There are too many people who thing more megapixels are better, without actually engaging their brain.

Like people who prefer the largest screen at the cinema without realising they now have to move their head to see the whole frame AND it looks a lot more blurry than on a smaller screen. I always prefer the smaller screen with a more crisp image, very much like how good the X1 screen looks good without anti-aliasing on the text because the pixels are so small. To be fair, I too bought into the "more pixels is better" for the screen and was disappointed that it actually has LESS usable space than my HTC Wizard, because the screen is physically too small to really utilise that space. (speaking of I think the screen size and keyboard are perfect on the Wizard, just needs a higher resolution and fast CPU/GPU)

To those of you moaning about the X2 because the X1 is more sexy, well enjoy your sexy badly designed phone. The screen is too small, it should have been flush not recessed and the whole phone is too narrow so if you try to write software to take advantage of the resolution - you find you have LESS usable space than an iPhone.

Seriously, the first thing I though when I got my X1 was "crap, I didnt realise it was THAT thin". Sure its a great form factor for a phone, but not a phone with a touch screen. It also forced the keyboard to be too small. If I buy another WinMo phone I will make sure the screen is at least iPhone sized, or I might in fact resort to an iPhone because I am sick of WinMo underperforming.

I love WinMo because I can develop C# apps on it. Yet that is mute as the X1 screen is too narrow and once I got stuck with a problem, nobody seemed able to help. So I have not been working on it for months now anyway. But no, the X2 is closer to what I wanted from the X1, but alreading owning an X1 I know how garbage the qualcomm chipset is and no thanks. That said, I do not like most phones either as after getting an iPod Touch I realised how badly written the OS is on phones.

The iPhone is by no means perfect, at least not until you jailbreak it and get the freedom to tweak things. But you cannot deny how smooth, quick and easy it is to use. The hardware acceleration just works and its core to the entire OS making it a seamless, fun, experience. No other phone comes close in usability IMO, its just a shame its so locked down by default.

Sorry, I did not intend this to be a plug for the iPhone as I normally hate Apple. But they got it right and why other phone manufacturers still release judderly, badly written software, it puzzles me. Basically WinMo needs the polish of Windows 7. Some nice Aero acceleration so that EVERYTHING is silky smooth and 3D accelerated, it would allow easier development of smooth, accelerated software which would mean even if Microsoft did not rival iPhones interface, it would be easier to write something as smooth as the core OS would be handling the transitions.