Mark Morrow takes the Sony Experia X1 for a spin over on BengalBoy.com (Adult content warning).
Here’s a video of how the optical joystick works:
It does not look very user-friendly to me.
However, the device does certainly look quite stylish.
The lack of softkey hardware buttons and directional buttons on the keyboard seems to be a huge oversight. Without those buttons, you’ll have to take one hand off the keyboard and use your finger or a stylus to access the menus every time you want to interact with the device. It’s a pretty obvious problem and sure to be an annoyance with power users.
On the plus side, it looks like the video recording and camera quality is up to speed with the Nokia N95!
Originally published on Pocketnow on April 28, 2008. More Hardware articles from the Pocketnow archive.