Japanese shadow doc attaches opposable thumbs to the green robot

While I never liked Sony Ericsson and its phones (the first cell I ever really bought broke instantly, and every replacement broke as well, it’s still lying around here somewhere and never been used. Also I hate the clumsy design of the Xperias, and they never update android anyway), I’ve gotta hand it to Sony – they honor their tradition of making kick ass commercials. I mean, this is me, talking about an ad without being forced to do so.

Love that it all takes place in some east asian shadow shack. *heads of to the store to putter around with this

Why choosing an Android-phone sucks. Sometimes.

I´d like to buy a new smartphone, got an iPhone 3G that technically is now 3 years old. What i hate most is the app-censorship of the big company behind the phone and especially the feeling to become one of the apple-fanboys buying their products just because of their logo, despite there beeing better hardware alternatives out there.

So – i was looking around the last days for a competitor to the upcoming iphone 4, or at least to the 3gs. The device should have i nice look and touch, be well-crafted, have a big highres screen and yepp, that´s it. Of course the only the real alternative to apple´s iOs should be Android these days.

HTC seems to produce cheap-looking and feeling plastic toys with a life-span shorter than my dick. The Nexus One is nice but getting to old and google will not produce a successor.

I found the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. Nice phone, nice price, maybe a good start to move one step further away from the Apple-Hype to Linux and Android.

 

But then – hey, what do I read? The phone still comes with Android 1.6 and SE is planning to update to 2.1 in Q4 2010. Even no word about Android 2.2. Users are talking about serious keyboard lags, some minor problems here and some major there. But SE won´t come up with an update….. so it´s a great phone limited severely by outdated software.

So what would be more frustrating, going on with joining the apple-boys with frequent firmware-updates keeping your device healthy or having a nice piece of hardware that frustrates you because the os on it sucks (lacks frequent bugs-releases)???

I still don´t know, i like the X10 a lot, i´m curious to try Android, but as of today 06/16/2010 there´s still no update to 2.1 on the X10

Users even started an online-petition to Sony to bring Android 2.2 one the Experia X10

http://xperia-x1.com/petition-started-to-get-2-2-for-xperia-x10/

EDIT:

So today after exactly 4 minutes of making up my mind i bought the HTC Desire .

It´s a great smartphone, sexy, well built,veery fast and so far i love it. I´ll keep you informed. Ah, and maybe my dick isn´t that short .