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Sony Ericsson unveils the XPERIA X1 convergence phone

screenshot_05.jpgThe leak about Sony Ericsson’s G series of handsets last week seems to have deflected attention away from the company’s real show stopping announcement. Out of nowhere at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Sony Ericsson has unveiled the XPERIA X1 convergence phone.

The device is a has a full three inch VGA touchscreen nestling on top of an arc sliding QUERTY that shimmies out from the side of the device. Not only that but there are various face buttons on the device too designed to make assigning specific controls all the easier.

The device is packing Windows Mobile rather than Symbian and has a full suite of multimedia bells and whistles to make use of its copious interface options. That means the PlayNow music service is built in along with Windows Media Player Mobile, Internet Explorer Mobile an FM radio, video streaming and support for 3D games.

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