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UK to get new Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 before the US

UK to get new Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 before the US It has been announced that the UK is to get its hands on the new Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 mobile phone before the US does.

The phone will ship from 30 September at the earliest in the UK, Germany and Sweden and there should be no shortage of consumers interested in adding it to their Christmas wish list.

Sony's new device will have a number of home screens, called 'panels', with separate icons that allow its users to choose from any of these required panels to work with.

The handset will also sport a functional QWERTY keyboard and enjoy high data speed courtesy of its HSDPA connectivity.

A blogger called Nick, on the Dial-a-Phone website, got the chance to look at the X1 last weekend and was impressed, calling it "awesome".

He wrote: "The touchscreen is incredible, and I didn’t realise there’s also a laptop style mouse pad for navigating around the screen."

However, he did have reservations about the phone not being in the Cyber-shot™ range, and not having "the most impressive camera in the Sony Ericsson catalogue" - something that the high quality screen resolution only partially solves.

Sony Ericsson's website will run a full, live demonstration of the X1 during a public webcast on Monday 15 September.

Announcement of the release dominated much of this week's mobile news coverage. Slipping under the radar was an article in the Times Online about how mobile phones are increasingly featuring in divorce cases.

Shelley Chesworth, of SAS Daniels solicitors, told The Times that 75 per cent of her firm's current cases involve a mobile phone, in either revealing or betraying infidelity.

A "sudden change in a spouse's mobile phone usage habits" is, she believes, a possible sign that someone might have acquired a 'bit on the side'.

Ms Chesworth commented: "The obvious sign is someone getting a second mobile phone.

"Secretive or furtive usage is another clue - standing at the end of the garden texting, or maybe sitting outside in the car talking. But the main giveaway is undoubtedly the undeleted text, or stored photo or video."

You have been warned…

Industry News posted on 12 September 2008

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