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Hands On with Sony Ericsson's First Windows Mobile, the Xperia X1

Shortly after Microsoft rolled out Windows Mobile 6.1 at last week's CTIA Wireless show in Las Vegas, Sony Ericsson announced its first Microsoft-run smartphone, the Xperia X1, would ship with the platform upgrade installed. The X1 is major change of pace for the cell phone company, as it usually builds smartphones on the Symbian OS and its own UIQ platform. One of the most anticipated Microsoft-run smartphones in some time, the X1 is supposed to ship during the second half of this year, but may, according to rumor, be delayed until early 2009. It sports a unique arc slider design, so when you slide up its high-resolution 3-inch, WVGA (840 x 480-pixel) touch screen, a wide QWERTY thumb-keyboard is revealed. [Read]