Sony officially decides to update "Xperia X10 (SO-01B)" to Android 2.3

Despite having been released as a single-touch smartphone that adopted Android 1.6, I did update to Android 2.1 last November, and furthermore"Xperia X10 (model for Japan for SO-01B)" that we played to multi-touch correspondence of wishHowever, it became clear that it was updated to the latest Android 2.3.

Details are as below.
Update on Xperia X10 | Product Launch Blog

According to the official blog of Sony Ericsson mobile phone maker Sony Group, the company previously said that it will not update to "Android 2.2 or later" about "Xperia X10", but to update to Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) It seems that he has decided officially. The update time will be from the second quarter of 2011 to the first quarter of the year.

This update has been realized in the process of developing Android 2.3 smartphone such as "Xperia arc", "Xperia PLAY", "Xperia neo", etc. First of all, updating of the global model "Xperia X 10" is given priority and development I will do.

In addition, we are planning to provide further information on whether or not customized models for careers in each country can be updated.

The major points that are different from conventional ones in updating to Android 2.3 are as follows.

· Camera interface becomes Android standard, face recognition function and smile recognition function are lost
· DRM (Digital Rights Management) key is lost due to updates
· Data backup and restoration software provided for Xperia X10 becomes unusable
· Seamlessly enjoying content such as music, moving pictures and photos "Mediascape" is replaced with media player installed in "Xperia arc"

In addition to this, downgrading is impossible once updating, and there are some notes such as loss of data saved in Xperia itself rather than memory card in the process of updating, but updating to Android 2.3 The great merit obtained by doingImproved performance and formal response to Flash contentThe point.

It was announced that the update was aborted in less than half a year since it was released and it was forced to use Android 1.6 as is "IS 01"Or"LYNX (SH-10 B)In contrast to symmetrical, "Xperia X10" has a positive sense that updates are being offered, expectations are likely to rise about updating models for Japan as well.

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