[XPERIA X10 General] Tom-Helge:
You should absolutely choose the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10. Yes i own the phone my self, so i have good experience with it.

Ok, so you said you did want touch, stable OS, access to exchange, lot of programs to try and no problem to buy, good camera, very powerful web browser.

The touch screen on the XPERIA X10 is very nice. The screen currently only supports 65k colors, but that's not because of the screen, it's because of Android 1.6. So when XPERIA X10 gets Android 2.1 soon, then it will get 16.7 mill colors on the screen.

Android 1.6 is pretty damn stable to be very old. I haven't had any crashes so far on my phone.

Exchange is normally in Android OS'es newer than Android 1.6, but Sony Ericsson have fixed this in the XPERIA X10 so you can have it in Android 1.6.

Android 1.6 have ALOT of very good programs on the Android Market. I'm from Norway and we don't have payable apps available in Android Market atm, but that doesn't really bother me because i have found absolutely everything i really need on Android Market for free.

But i'm not sure if you can buy apps in your country yet though. But Google is doing all they can to let more countries to get payable apps to buy.

And those programs i have got for free on Android Market are usually in a much higher quality or better than most of the apps you have to pay for in AppStore if you have an iPhone 4.

Take a look here on how my Home screen UI looks now after i installed a new home screen UI program.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7309753/Capture2.png

That's something any iPhone users only can dream of to get.

XPERIA X10 have a VERY good camera. The camera on the XPERIA X10 is in 8.1 mpix resolution. But even then, the pictures i have taken with my XPERIA X10 is just really nice.

Just take a look at those pictures i'm linking to under here. I think those pictures was taken with 6 mpix resolution, but that's quite big pictures anyways.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7309753/DSC_0008.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7309753/DSC_0009.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7309753/DSC_0012.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7309753/DSC_0019.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7309753/DSC_0022.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7309753/DSC_0023.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7309753/DSC_0024.jpg

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7309753/DSC_0025.jpg (Lets see if you can find the little bee on this picture :D)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7309753/DSC_0026.jpg

Now that's what i call for awesome quality on the camera. Those pictures speaks for it self.

Now someone might say to you that the quality on the iPhone 4's camera is great, well it's taking good pictures in light conditions. But that fun only lasts until you takes picturtes in dark conditions.

The pictures are full of noices in dark conditions and looks even horrible scaled down.

Just check those dark iPhone 4 camera pictures here at this link.

http://www.engadget.com/photos/iphone-4-camera-shots/

The noices in those scaled down pictures on iPhone 4 is so bad that it does have like 4-5 times more noices than my full resolution pictures have in total on 8.1 mpix.

But when we get Android 2.1 to XPERIA X10 in September this year, then XPERIA X10 will get 720p recording with autofocus. It will get the same recording as Sony Ericsson Vivaz as you can see a movie out of here on how the quality will be under recording.

The reason the XPERIA X10 will get the same recording features as Vivaz is because the XPERIA X10 have the same camera in the phone as the Vivaz have.

First i'm gonna give you a recording from the Vivaz that shows the autofocus under recording in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmnW6tSDsKQ

Then this to show how the camera is working under normal weather and that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEXgMgG6TWQ

But the Sony Ericsson Vivaz have 24 fps under recording though, and because the hardware in the XPERIA X10 is waaaaaay way more powerfull than the Vivaz is, then we might get 30 fps instead with the same quality and autofocus :D.

The quality on the recording on the iPhone 4 might be a little better than this, but the iPhone 4 doesn't have autofocus under recording. So the results will get better on the XPERIA X10 no matter what then.

Then to the web browser. The web browser in the iPhone 4 (iOS 4) is good, but the web browser experience is way better in Android 2.1 / 2.2 because you have full Flash support there.

Take a look at this to see what i'm talking about: http://www.gsmarena.com/flash_101_final_available_for_smartphones_with_android_22-news-1759.php

Now i'm not gonna go into why i wouldn't recommend iPhone 4 to you, it's simply because it's to much locked and and you have to use a pc software everywhere to be able to do anything with the iPhone 4. iPhone 4 have no widget supports, no live wallpaper supports, no easy way to transfer you music, movies, pictures to your phone without using iTunes etc etc and so on.

There is way more stupid things with the iPhone 4 that makes it to a big ass annoyance.

So if you really want to know what those big ass annoyances is, then let me know.

So to finish this reply, i'm recommending you the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 because the phone is extremely good. And the phone is also way way cheaper than the iPhone 4 to.