[XPERIA X2 General] john3136:
After buying an X2a in the USA in May and putting up with it's quirks, I've finally gone back to my old phone, a humble Nokia N95.

I thought I'd post a log of why I've made such a giant leap backwards in case it might prompt S.E. to do something about the X2 and the damage it has caused their reputation (I would never touch another S.E. phone again after this experience)

Here we go:

* The N95 gets reception in places the X2 doesn't.

I was happy to live with this and swap the sim card to the N95 about once a week when I was going to a poor coverage location, but that had problems:

X2 forgot all my ringtones assigned to people etc.

Battery on X2 would report as about 10% at the end of the day even though it was 98% when I turned it off and left it off all day.

* X2 is picky about how it charges

If you plug an X2 into a PC with no X2 device drivers etc installed, it chews the battery. You can literally watch it go down 1% every minute or two. I ended up taking a power pack to work (cos I can't install software on the work PC)

* X2 is slow

Worst manifestation is: phone rings, "answer screen" comes up, you hit answer - after 2 seconds nothing happened.

You think "touch screen must have missed my tap" so you tap it again.

In the mean time it's got the first tap and answered the call.

The "Hangup" button goes to the same spot as the "Answer button" - you've just hung up on your caller

In general though, you often hit a button and wait seconds for it to react.

Really poor user interaction design.

As a comparison, the N95 can sometimes be a bit slow (not as slow as the X2), but it shows a little animation or similar so you know that something is happening and the phone has heard you.

* X2 is unstable

I was using it a lot as a media player. Often it would just hang (normally when jumping to a new track)

- sometimes it would come back, other times you had to reboot.

In the last few weeks it was happening more and more and I found that I had to reboot twice to see the media.

(First reboot could see it in file manager, but not in media player. Second reboot was all good. This happened at least 3 times)

* Memory card issues

Like everyone, I had the memory card problem (and applied the fix).

Raised it as a support issue with S.E. - was told buy a new card.

Thanks to whoever found and made the fix - it certainly fixed my issue with the disappearing memory card.

* Volume level quite low.

It's usable, but now I, back to my N95, I'm amazed how much louder it is compared to the X2!

* 3.5" jack software driven.

Quite often I'd connect to a car system by a 3.5" plug, but the X2 played out of it's speakers.

Had to plug and unplug several times to make it work.

N95 works instantly everytime (although it always asks you what you just plugged in which is annoying...)

* Bluetooth

My handsfree can see the X2, but I cannot make or receive calls, so it's 100% useless to me!

* Video camera

I don't use the video camera much (only used it once) - result was very jerky. The couple of times I've taken video on the N95 I was impressed with the quality.

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* Voice control

X2 has no voice control at all. Vito voice dialer worked nicely, and their more general voice control app was ok, but no way to launch it with a single press.

N95 has voice control but it's crappy - you don't record your own tags, you have to try to imitate how the phone thinks things sound. It works ok, but I'd prefer to record my own tags.

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* Pro (just to even things up a little bit)

Reason I got the X2 is that the N95 kept rebooting itself when I visited New York.

The X2 (actually an X2a I guess) worked fine there and back home in Aus.

That's all I can think of right now.

Anyone want to buy a slightly used X2A?