No, I too got caught up in the reviews and thats why I bought one.
- It was the last phone out of all the next-gen Android phones to receive Android 2.1 and since the announcement of Arc, X10's are now EOL products, therefor will be stuck on 2.1.
- I believe that X10's sold in SA is still running Android 1.6?
- X10 has a hardware flaw with multi-touch. If you hack it you will find that MT does work but the horizontal and vertical of the 2 touch points cannot cross each other. Example if you moved 1 finger from right to left and the other left to right the 2 points will get 'stuck' as they cross the vertical axis.
- Timescape is great gimmick at first, but I found it of no use. It also uses resources up like mad; causing stuttering and very poor battery life . Another problem with it that it was embedded into other applications, so if you end-tasked it, contacts wouldn't work.
- Although, praised by some, Moxier was another useless app that wasted resources, even though i never even used it. It always has some process running in the background.
- SE's development team must be shocking, because X10 also constantly had "face recognition" tasks running in the background, even when the camera wasn't in use.
- Battery life 10 hrs if I used the phone to max of 20 hours on standby. I'd charge my phone at night and next day before lunch it would be at 60%.
Now these apps never went into idle state, hence very poor battery life. As soon as I unchecked 'background data' and auto-synchronizations, my phone could easily go uncharged for 4+days. However, by doing that, I might as well have bought an ordinary phone.
Now with Cyanogen mod (Android 2.2), I manage 2-3 days with Wifi, GPS and synchronizations turned on.
Although, its a good looking phone with a good camera and impressive specs, I was burnt by Sony's poor after-sales support and resource hungry software.
If I were you, I'd wait a month or two once the Arc goes on sale and then go prowl the XDA forums for any major issues. At the moment, I wouldn't trust Sony.
