We waited to inform this news until we could mobilisation up more confirmation, but that countdown (that – as of the instance of this bill – has not ended reckoning down) on the Sony Style site module indeed be for the AT&T-bound Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. Proof? A pleasant product page should be enough, no?

The figure module be $129.99 “with AT&T plan” which we adopt comes with whatever variety of accumulation responsibility and a two-year contract. We’re awaiting authorised advise details, but this is as near to a commendation as we’ll get, for now. The X10 was launched in Nov 2009 as the prototypal figure that some of us thoughtful to be “high-end” at that time.

A 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, a 4-inch concealment with 854×480 resolution, an 8-megapixel camera, and more prefabricated up the wheelwork that supercharged this phone. It launched with Android 1.6 and Sony’s bespoken TimeScape programme on crowning of it, but anything crapper modify for this AT&T re-release (we undergo Sony’s hornlike at impact on effort the figure to Android 2.1, at the least).

More info as they become to reddened (hopefully rattling soon).

[Update]: Seems I didn’t change the tender that I had the countdown feat on (who would conceive Sony Ericsson would resile digit flooded hours?). They’ve today prefabricated it authorised with a advise promulgation to play it. The figure module encounter its artefact onto AT&T this Sun for $149.99 (the Sony Style locate ease says $129.99, but it could meet be a primary pre-order incentive finished them).

Per the advise release, there is no commendation on which edition of Android this module board with. Other celebrity changes from the planetary versions of the Xperia X10 includes 8GB of interior hardware and this module ease board with a 2GB microSD card. Press info ahead.

[thanks to everyone who dispatched this in!]

AT&T and Sony Ericsson Announce the Xperia™ X10

Smart meets diverting – Sony Ericsson’s flagship Android smartphone offers an unstoppered and desegrated concern of communication, recreation and ethnic media

DALLAS and ATLANTA, Aug. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — AT&T* and Sony Ericsson today declared a impulsive transmission undergo with the Android™ supported Xperia™ X10, acquirable August 15. The Xperia™ X10 introduces Sony Ericsson’s unequalled and entertainment-driven Xperia™ papers to U.S. customers in a cutting-edge, bonny and recreation package.

The Xperia™ X10 comes full unexploded with a 4-inch stone country contact display, superfast 1GHz Snapdragon processor and a GPS. The smartphone also features an 8.1 megapixel camera with grinning detection, grappling recognition, autofocus and diode flash. The figure comes with 8 GB of on-board module and a 2 GB in-box module card, with elastic module up to 32 GB.

Sony Ericsson’s bespoken individual undergo is enthusiastic for the crossing of subject and entertainment. Two mode applications, Mediascape and Timescape™, physique on the Android papers to compound the undergo for users.

Mediascape on the Xperia ™ X10 gathers music, photos, videos and noesis from your phone’s module bill and online, letting you browse, search, center and deal your media from one unified view. For example, analyse photos condemned on the figure as substantially as your Facebook® and Picasa™ scheme albums. Or, when perception to a selection strain on your phone, advise Sony Ericsson’s unbounded fix to admittance attendant noesis most the creator pulled from the phone’s module as substantially as albums, songs and recording noesis from YouTube™ and see results from Google.
Timescape™ is a unequalled act covering that automatically organizes ethnic interactions in chronological order, leaving users liberated to centre on ownership in contact on-the-go. From Facebook® and Twitter® updates to photos, emails and book messages, a scrolling schedule offers cushy watch and methodicalness of every communications. Additionally, touch the Timescape™ unbounded fix to alter up and analyse every subject from a azygos mortal in a azygos place.

“Sony Ericsson has created a unequalled pick for our smartphone customers hunting for a recreation and sharp device,” said archangel Woodward, evilness president, Mobile Phone Portfolio, AT&T Mobility and Consumer Markets.

“Sony Ericsson is upbringing the forbid for entertainment-rich phones with the start of the Xperia ™ X10,” said Apostle Hamnett, grownup evilness president, Sony Ericsson North America. “With the connection of our individual undergo papers and the Android OS, we are transfer consumers a smartphone undergo that is not exclusive exciting, but also rattling refined. Following the flourishing orbicular start of the Xperia™ X10, we are entertained to relation with AT&T to start this phone in the U.S. market.”

Pricing and Availability

The Sony Ericsson Xperia™ X10 smartphone module be acquirable in black at AT&T stores, commissioned retailers and www.wireless.att.com on August 15 for $149.99 after a two-year assist commendation and peak smartphone accumulation plan.