[XPERIA X10 General] :
SE is a 10 years old company, some would say that's a long time, but for me, they're young. Without justifying them, but I think they should learn from their mistakes (wich they accepted they had).

However, they could learn from the good examples, not of the bad ones (see Nokia). Sometimes it feels like SE is acting in the wrong way with an old-minded philosophy... For example, the Symbian experiment was a total failure, and they just can't allow themselves to do something like that again. The decision of working with Android is a total score, but sometimes seems like they haven't started with the proper development or interest to get into the open source world deeply.

The fact that Arc is running Gingerbread will make a lot happy, but let's see how it runs and how SE will give support to it (hope is good). We have to consider that 2.3 is the newest version of Android, that means good things but also it'll come with bugs, some kind of unstability and other minor problems that SE will have to work in (there's not a perfect system and it won't be). OK, some ppl have the feeling that We, the X10 owners were treated like 'guinea pigs', and some SE statements helped that theory (unfortunately). I put myself on the shoes of SE's personnel, I understand all the points and all the trouble that means working and developing phones... But at my point of view, they haven't work very much with the 'human touch' (I talked about this in other thread), they should avoid saying things like that, or like "eclair is better than vanilla froyo" for example, without explaining why.

It isn't about comparing SE with another companies, that sould NOT be 'cause SE should look forward to the new times and try to be the best on the market, not the same as HTC/Nokia/Samsung/etc. After all, this is business competence, and as I said it in xperiax10.net forum, SE had designed beautiful phones, but those were simple phones and easily acomplished the simple tasks they were meant to do. But when is about smartphones, things totally change, and only the honest and hard work will keep SE in the privileged place they have in the market.

I wanna make clear that I don't hate SE, i don't love it either, it is an option in the market for everyone, and if I bought the X10 is because I decided to do if for simple reasons: good looking, powerful hardware, great camera and decent performance. Obsolete system? perhaps. The phone is good, but I could take a phrase of a blog review that I read a while ago: "X10 is a phone that can do a lot, but it doesn't deliver all its potential". I said in another thread that I hope SE unlocks this real potential and gives updates to make it even better than it is already (and Im not talking about Froyo/bootloader/something, please forget that). Let's not satanize SE, but let's not coddle them either, they CAN work on it, they have a good incoming money I'd like to have, but more than that, they have good posibilites and resources to do something great as a company and get the preference of almost all the world.

Of course, I'd LOVE to have Froyo, or even Gingerbread in my X10, but if I know that will not officially happen, then I put my eyes in the alternative of the wonderful custom ROMs, so being complaining and whining is useless at this point. However, accepting blindly what SE says is the truth without opining and remarking the bad points of it isn't just my style.

And not all of us are teens getting money from daddy or something like that, I'm older than 20 and I gotta work to get what I need/want. After all, that's even better 'cause I don't expect to get life resolved by my parents :D