Oh man, Expansys. Either you’ve got someone who doesn’t know how to punch in embargo dates properly, or whoever is in charge of determining when your product pages go live likes to live on the edge. Expansys has leaked or confirmed details on more handsets than we’ll even bother to count. This time around, they’ve shined a light on Sony Ericsson’s first (and oh-so-gorgeous) Android handset, Rachel.
First of all, it looks like Rachel’s real name is XPERIA X3. Back in September, Sony Ericsson CTO said they had no plans to bring Android devices to the market. Oh, how quickly things change when you’re bleeding hundreds of millions per quarter.
Beyond the name, Expansys also unveiled almost the entirety of the handset’s specs. There’s no mention of what sort of CPU this guy’s packin’, but it does have an 800×400 4″ Touchscreen, HSDPA/HSUPA, 8 megapixel auto-focus camera with an LED flash, VGA video recording, a 3.5mm headset jack (Thank you, Sony Ericsson!), and assisted GPS. In not so many words, we want this. Full specs after the jump.
• Display:
- 800 x 400 pixels/4″
- Touch Sensitive
• Network:
- 2G 850/900/1800/1900 (Quad-Band)
- 3G: 900/2100 (Dual-Band)
- HSDPA (10Mbps)
- HSUPA (2Mbps)
• Camera:
- 8 mega-pixels (auto-focus)
- 8 x Digital Zoom
- LED Flash
- Image Stabilization
- Smile Shutter
- Face Detection
• Video:
- VGA Video Recording
• Music:
- Supported formats: MP3, AAC, eAAC+
• Ringtones:
- Monophonic
- Polyphonic (64)
- MP3
- AAC
• Messaging:
- SMS
- MMS (with video)
- E-mail (POP3, SMTP, IMAP4, MS Exchange)
• Memory:
- Phone Book
- Dialled Calls
- Missed Calls
- Received Calls
- microSDHC (external)
• Call Features:
- Hands Free
- Caller ID
- Voice Dialling
• Connectivity:
- miniUSB
- 3.5mm AV connector
- Bluetooth (2.1)
- Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11g)
• Navigation:
- AGPS
[Thanks David!]
Looks like Sony is up next for Android!! LOL!
How is this a leak when they are asking for pre-sale orders? Where are the fuzzy pictures? The bad photoshop? I have used Expansys in the past for my unlocked S/E k750i and K790a before my iphone, and they are a reputable company. It wouldn’t suprise me to learn they were handed the ability to sell first.
If these specs are right, and the price is under $500 for unlocked, I might swap in my 2g iphone.
This looks great. Let’s get it state side so I can consider finally replacing my W810i or whatever it’s called. The phone is over three years old at this point and still gets around six hours talk time – easy. Works perfect after all these years of being used, dropped, soaked with hand sanitizer, etc.
I have the exact same phone! I’m waiting for something like this phone to replace, cause nothing else is good enough.
I love the love for the W810i! . . . It still may be my favorite phone – even though I moved on, recently. I enjoyed the simplicity, the size, the durability, and perhaps most of all, the camera flash doubling as a functional flashlight! (And programmed S.O.S.? That was icing on the cake.)
Safe to say – I’m a Sony Ericsson fan. I hope the X3 helps bring them back.
If it has an outdated CPU, I’m not interested. (See HTC Hero.)
These smart phones are basically laptop computers, and you wouldn’t want a brand new laptop computer with an Pentium 4, while the competition comes with Core i7, right?
Looks promising! First Andriod handset that actually looks [physically] good.
Let’s hope they don’t screw this up like they did with the X1, man did that phone suck.
hmm… wonder if all is true. how come the Rachel is all over the internet but it’s not even mentioned on developer.sonyericsson.com? specs of the Satio, Aino and Yari are all on there…
hey it dose so look at it again on developer sony ericsson. com
I, too, have a W810i and won’t swap it until they make something as good. Let’s see with this.
read somewhere this is gonna have a 1ghz cpu!
and only agps – how disappointing.