Each week we pitch two phones against one another in a vicious, no holds-barred versus.
This week it’s an all-Android showdown: Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 squaring up to the HTC Legend.
Stand back, this could get nasty!
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Size & Weight
Put side-to-side the X10 is considerably bigger – 7mm taller and 7mm wider, and on the scales it’s nearly 10 grams heavier.
If this was a combative comparision, this would almost certainly give the X10 an edge. However, a contest where the winner is judged on how snugly and discreetly it can fit in your pocket, the altogether leaner Legend, with it’s one-piece aluminium frame, comes out trumps.
Winner: HTC Legend
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Screen
Both handsets are equipped with nicely responsive capacitive touchscreens, and if bigger is better in your book, then the Sony Ericsson has obvious appeal here with its huge 4.0” display.
However, power up the handsets next to each other and you cannot fail to notice how much brighter and more colourful the Legend’s AMOLED screen is.
Winner: HTC Legend (Who needs 4 inches?)
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Camera
Let’s face it – if you could have only one additional mobile phone feature, the camera would be it. Good news then that both of these phones pack decent autofocus cameras with millions of mega pixels, the ability to shoot in WVGA video and LED flash for snapping in the dark.
Sony’s heritage as a maker of fine cameras really shines through on the Xperia X10 however and it’s 8.1 million pixels capture images in such good detail that you can confidently leave your other camera at home.
Winner: Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10
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Processor and Memory
Both devices have the same storage memory – 8GB included, upgradeable to 16GB, and the same user memory for accessing applications – 384 MB.
The Xperia X10 is that much more powerful however, with a full-powered 1GHz Snapdragon processor at it’s centre. This isn’t to say the Legend, with it’s 600 Mhz processor is in anyway underpowered – since the Xperia has such a large screen – it requires that extra bit of horsepower to make it perform.
Winner: Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10
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User Interface
The X10’s highly customised UX User Interface is a very novel way of bringing together both on and offline content.
For instance – face recognition technology can automatically tag faces from your contacts book, saving you the hassle. The X10 also works in the background to pull in data from the web that correcting information on your music collection – artist names / track titles or even album work.
However, it seems that Sony Ericsson’s elaborate approach to development has had it’s costs – the Xperia X10 runs an older version (1.6 / Donut) of the open-sourced software and a fear is that this will make future updates problematic.
Meanwhile, HTC’s Sense UI, although not as novel, achieves a more intuitive experience and as it runs on the latest version of Android, v.2.1, will be more robust when adopting updates. In a world of 18-24 month contracts, that sort of longevity counts!
Winner: HTC Legend
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Connectivity
As fully tooled-up smartphones, these have all the connection you’d expect to enable you to make the leap from basic telephony and into the web of wide wonders: top-of-the range WiFi, HSDPA-enabled 3G, assisted GPS plus Bluetooth for all those last minute, short distant wireless transfers and devices linkages.
Winner: Draw
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Media
Playback-wise both of these handsets have MP3 players, support for DivX so you can play videos and 3.5mm jacks for inserting your own headphones.
In breadth of features, the Legend edges it however, with the inclusion of an FM radio with RDS (super useful is you live in a city with lots of different radio stations).
However, we were so impressed by the X10’s ‘Mediascape’ interface, which allows you to pull together your music, videos and pictures in both a beautiful and useful way, that we had to include it as a bonus for this round.
Winner: Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10
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