Phone Test: Xperia X10 is Sony Ericsson's first Android smartphone

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Sony-Ericsson has made a late entry into the battle for Google Phone supremacy.  The manufacturer's first Android smartphone is the Xperia X10, a handsomely sized handset with a generous range of features.

It faces the stiff task of helping the phone giant from getting back into its stride after a long time struggling to make a name for its smartphones. 

Will a large capacitive touchscreen display, 8.1 Megapixel camera, and a powerful 1 GHz SnapDrgan QSD8250 processor running a revised, updated interface be enough to outshine the recent progress made by phones like the HTC Hero or the Motorola Milestone?  We'll find out in this test, but for the time being, you'll have to make do with Android version 1.6, which isn't the most recent.

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