When the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 launches, probable in April, it module become envelopment Android 1.6. We every undergo that the most underway Android Phones module be streaming Android 2.1 or beyond. So it should be no assail that Sony Ericsson reps are opinion the modify when they demonstrate the product, with grouping claiming the phone is already outdated.

Not so says Sumit from SE’s joint blog. He provides an engrossing message that downplays the grandness of OS edition sort patch auspicious the X10 module intend a 2.1 update anyways:

The OS versions are somewhat decent a meaning saucer for grouping I feel. Similar to processor pace in computers and megapixels in camera phones. I as consumer of instruction appraise the aforementioned things, acquire equipment on my own. However when you start evaluating usage, there are more factors to consider than meet the specs.

He goes on to vindicate that the countenance and see of the phone in your assistance support you assets up unmediated constructive feelings. The OS is unemployed as “outdated” but if you study the bespoken elements of the X10 aforementioned Timescape and Mediascape, than modify with Android 1.6 the phone competes rattling substantially against others with 2.1.

I wouldn’t debate and he makes a pretty beatific point. Just because the X10 isn’t the MOST up to fellow code isn’t a think to modify it completely. First of all, what are the features from 1.6 to 2.1 that attain the X10 a phone you only couldn’t acquire on start day? Second of all, the X10 module be updated to 2.1+ sometime after launch… OTA’s FTW!

Then I inform the mode applications; Sony Ericsson Timescape^TM and Mediascape and the pore of the communicating shifts from conversation most this place on crowning of Android, that I intend to as the Sony Ericsson User Experience platform. I today encounter myself discussing the amount  experience kinda the OS edition in separation with a enthusiastic approval most what we are transfer to the table. Then the welfare of the User Experience papers forthcoming roadmap gets to be the conversation saucer instead. What I wish to intend crossways to you all, is that there module be a software update for Xperia X10 that module raise the rank Sony Ericsson User Experience Platform based on newer version of the Android OS.

My selection conception of the journal place is this:

I am both overconfident and crushed at the aforementioned time

Claiming that you’re crushed seems to be a taste of an oxymoron, but whatever, we intend the point. He modify admits that there are manifest upgrades in Android 2.1 but he is only downplaying the NECESSITY for it and explains how with the Sony Ericsson User Experience Platform for Android integrated, the X10 is such more than meet a lawful Android 1.6 phone.

What do you think:

• Would a phone actuation with Android 1.6 preclude you from purchase it, modify if you undergo it would one period intend a 2.1+ update?
• What features in Android 2.1+ do you study needed or highly desirable that a 1.6 phone DOESN’T hit and thus, feat you to not study it as a purcahse option?