User reviews – GSM Arena.
Got my X1-Silver addition 3 months ago, with in the first 3 weeks the phone started lagging, then stopped(unresponsive for minutes on end). And finally the phone went completely hey-wire!! Started making phone calls by it self, touch the messaging and it starts typing by itself. I'm a big SE fan, and for that reason tried to be logical. Run an update, and the update fixed the phone for about 2 days. And again all problems returned, worse than ever!! So called SE technical department. ANSWER: Your phone's hardware is damaged.
I'm like HUH!! this phone 3 weeks old. Try that for bad luck. If i weren't a SE fan i would have snapped the phone in half.
Conclusion: I sent it in, they replaced the defective hardware, 2 weeks later i had my phone and it works like a charm now! Pitty they didn't include the Xenon Flash like my K850i. Other than that - GREAT Phone!!
malaputu
I've use X1 for 1 month a go and very like this smartphone cause X1 have more all feature that i need and i'm use for my bussines everyday. X1 is a good performance for push email and i'm used for several account; live.com, gmail and yahoo. All account it's work great for pushemail and very past as item arrive (paster than my Laptop that using WIFI in my office).
Beside that, when i'm at my office i can use wifi network and it
s work grat too. The cameraand keyboard is ok and easy to use.
X1 can be intall 3 party application like TFD 3D as good as original TFD 3d for HTC touch.
Conclusion, X1 is better that blackberry and omnia, HTC
- Anonymous
No youtube is free and the x1 has a good browser as well. The x1 has a small appsotre called sonyericsson fun which allows you to download facebook panells etc
Ary
I own this for 1 month, really love it and loving it more each day.
Long battery life, very good performance.
I installed Touch-IT Rom v5 and It is great.
using this new ROM, I have YouTube app which make it really enjoyable to watch youtube also.
Pete
Yes the X1 can play youtube,
Method 1: go into Pocket Internet Explorer or Opera Browser, turn on wi-fi, or turn on 3G, and then type down www.youtube.com
It will ask you if you want to download youtube cab. Say yes, install the youtube.cab and then open the program. It will have a youtube application to search and play youtube videos
Method 2: go to XDA forums and then look for youtube cab. This cab is different, it is harder to find, but it is much funner to use than the other youtube program.
Anonymous
I find it extremely amusing reading through some of symbian/Nokia fanbois posts. Obviously deluded individuals with little or no understanding of operating systems.
I'd strongly recommend running the hell away from Symbian. It's awful.
Let us gloss over the lousy documentation (in which it's impossible to find anything, and where there are no links between chapters --- so, e.g., you can't follow a superclass chain up through the S60 chapter into the Symbian core chapter). Let us also gloss over the lousy build system (a horrible maze of crappy perl scripts, which, apart from being so hideously slow that our project takes the best part of ten minutes to build even if no source files have changed, doesn't allow you to have two source files in the same project with the same name. Even if they're in different directories). Let us also pass quickly over the debugger, trying not to make eye contact, that's unreliable, will only let you debug one task at a time, and which tends to crash if you do the wrong thing.
No, let's talk about the language.
You program for Symbian in C++. Good, you might think. No. This is C++ with all the good bits taken out and replaced by badly designed bits.
Let's take exceptions. There are no C++ exceptions. What there are instead are Leave codes; a macro-and-longjmp framework that replaces exceptions which allows you to throw an integer value and then catch it further up the call stack. Unfortunately because this is implemented without compiler assistance it doesn't unwind the stack frame, so destructors of locals aren't called! All is not lost, though: there's a complicated and easy-to-get-wrong manual cleanup stack on which you can push stuff that you want the system to free for you in such situations. God help you if you forget to push something, or pop something at the wrong point...
Let's take strings. There's no standard string class, of course. What there are are an even dozen different classes for storing strings in different ways: on the heap, on the stack, constant strings owned by someone else, etc. There are some superclasses that will allow you to pass references to these things around without having to worry about the implementation.
Except... it doesn't actually work. The various different string superclasses are incompatible. You can cast a TDes (mutable abstract string) to a TDesC (immutable abstract string). You can't cast a TPtr (mutable pointer to mutable string data) to a TPtrC (mutable pointer to immutable string data). Some of their system functions require you to pass in a reference to a concrete string type, so god help you if want to use a different implementation. You can't use certain implementations in certain contexts. The result is that for some operations you have to allocate a fixed-size buffer on the stack, call a system function to populate it, then copy the buffer into another buffer on the heap, because the buffer-on-heap object is immutable! Despite being resizeable and assignable!
Things get even worse when you want to store multiple strings. There's a labyrinthine maze of string array classes: arrays of fixed sized strings, arrays of descriptors, arrays of pointers to strings, arrays of pointer strings (which are different)... add this to Symbian's bizarre convention where a data storage class allocates memory in its constructor but does not free it in its destructor (which means the user must manually Close() method on all member variables) and simply figuring out who's responsible for freeing a particular object becomes non-trivial. I once spent three days trying to find out how to store an array of strings without leaking them. I kid you not.
(To be fair, they have been trying to fix this with OpenC++, a new programming environment based on, like, standards. It doesn't actually work. The interface to Symbian C++ code is patchy and poorly specced which means it's only really useful for running chunks of third-party code in a sandbox --- you still need to write your actual application in Symbian C++.)
HI All,
Those who are intending to buy this phone I can tell you this a fantastic piece. Only thing is that you will take time to get use to it. But once you understand this is the best Windows Mobile phone I ever had. Its just like a pocket PC.
Battery life: almost 3 days.
Screen: Superp glowy and glossy (best of the lot)
reception: Good
Speaker phone: Not Good
Camera: Good as compared with Mobile camera.
GPS: Google map is amazing.
Wifi: Strenth of the wireless router poor.
surfing net through EDGE: Good
MSN & SKYPE works well
Do not support South East Asian language: Hv to download the language pack which is very hard to find. If needed I can help. check my previous post for my email.
