A breakdown of Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 and Nokia N900

Here is a comment from a gsmarena.com visitor:

"first of all let me just start by saying that this phone sux, the screen is small and the keybord is soo small unlike the SE x2, and also the x2 had an 8.1 mp camera and sony is famous for making cameras and nokia has a 5 mp camera and is famous for their slow softwares and cheap looks. the only thing that this phone has is the 32 gb memory, no big deal u can put up to 16 gb in any phone and u can have more than one memory stick, so SE x2 is clearly a much better choice , the x2 has a better camera, software(panels), very quick and responsive, and i can go on for days!! if you agree post this ********Sony Ericsson X2*********"


http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone2=2926&idPhone1=2917

Just a correction on your statements about the specifications of the Nokia N900 and SE X2.

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Screen
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Nokia N900 3.5"
TFT resistive touchscreen, 16M colors
800 x 480 pixels, 3.5 inches

SE X2 3.2"
TFT resistive touchscreen, 65K colors
800 x 480 pixels, 3.2 inches

The N900 has a bigger screen than the X2, and also is capable of displaying 16M colors versus the X2's 65K colors.

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Processors
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Nokia N900
ARM Cortex A8 600 MHz, PowerVR SGX graphics

SE X2
Qualcomm MSM 7200 528 MHz processor

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OS
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Nokia N900
Maemo (GNOME based Linux OS)

SE X2
(Windows Mobile Professional 6.5)

Opinion:

The largest drawback to the SE X2 is the operating system; it is running on a very outdated operating system: Windows Mobile Professional.

The reason is that, in history, Microsoft's venture into the mobile industry did not amass the success required to compensate for the large development costs. It is a widely known fact that Microsoft does not have any plans to invest further into Windows Mobile, due to development costs and competition. This is why Windows Mobile Professional is so unoptimized for touch and has an extremely plain and outdated UI design, even in it's latest build, Windows Mobile Professional 6.5.

This is especially evident, since Sony Ericsson, Samsung, HTC and other mobile phone developers have to create third party software such as the X2 Panel, TouchWiz, TouchFlo, etc. to update it's user interface. However, the transitions between the added 3rd party UI and the native WinMO interface isn't always smooth, and is limited by the fact that at the end of the day, it is not a native part of WinMO, but rather just an application that runs on top of WinMO to make it look prettier.

Maemo, however, has been around since 2005; and with each iteration, additional functionality and development is produced. Maemo 5 is not the first build ever to exist, but it is more like Windows 7 is to Vista, and therefore has the support of both the Maemo community, and linux community. Also, Maemo was already capable of running SNES emulators while running on obsolete TI OMAP 400 mhz processor (which is slower per mhz than the ARM Cortex A8), imagine the possibilities with the N900's powerful hardware. As can be seen, there has been alot more development in Maemo than with WinMo, simply because Maemo is open-sourced, and therefore has little to no development costs: that is the advantages of open-sourced OS as opposed to a closed-source OS.

N900
- Faster more reliable ARM Cortex A8 600 mhz processor (which is also more power / mhz than the Qualcomm); PowerVR SGX graphics (enabling full 3D effects).

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2
- 8.1 MP Camera



One would wonder why Sony Ericsson didn't include the same hardware specifications from the Satio for the XPERIA X2.