Update: Added to product database.
I make no apologies for the increased amount of ‘phone’ news that you’ve seen on UMPCPortal recently because quite frankly, this new generation of phones is very interesting for web-focused users. You need to be watching this because CPU and screen sizes are allowing devices to move out of the ‘mobile web’ space into the ‘full web’ space.

Later today I’ll be summarizing all the high-end WVGA phones in an article but in the meantime, here’s another one that has just launched. The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10.

It has a 4” WVGA capacitive screen running on a 1Ghz Snapdragon CPU with the Android OS. It will come with an 8.1MP camera too which will  position it right at the top of the tree when it launches in Q1.

Engadget have already put up some thoughts and highlight the two special SE features that will give you access to a flipchart of messages interleaved from a number of online social and email services, and allow you to access video and audio content online. These software apps and services are known as Timescape and Mediascape.

Pricing is unknown but based on the price of the HTC HD2, i’d say we’re looking at a no-contract launch price of over 600 Euros.

Sizing information

• Size: 119 x 63 x 13 mm
• Weight: 135 grams

X10 Press Release

Engadget coverage

List of WVGA phones.

Sony Ericsson today released the second revision of the XPERIA X1 White Paper (PDF) detailing many technical aspects of the upcoming XPERIA X1 (hands-on preview here). The document covers the X1i and X1a models. Here is a partial list of changes from the first version of the paper according to inxperia.com –

• Quad-band EDGE: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
• Tri-band HSPA:
• X1a: (850/1900/2100 MHz)
• X1i: (900/1900/2100 MHz)
• X1a model supports MPEG4, H.263 24fps encoding at QVGA only and not H.264
• Size: 110.5 x 52.6 x 17 mm (formerly 110 x 53 x 16.7 mm)
• Weight: 158g

Swing by inxperia.com for the rest of the list, and feel free to download the paper yourself with the link above.