Rant of the Week: Sony Ericsson Xperia X2?

I’ve decided to start a new column on my blog, “Rant of the Week”, which I get to grumble and whine about a topic that annoys me. It’s my way of venting my frustrations… To start things off, I’m going to talk about a post at  WMExperts about Sony Ericsson debuting a new Xperia X2 in an event in Singapore this week. I’ve not been following WinMo phones too much ever since my Xperia X1 fell from favor in my time using it, but I had to comment on this. 

I shouldn’t be surprised, since it’ll be a year this November when the X1 was released. I’m not sure if I should be happy that they are continuing their line or just plain mad that they seemed to have done nothing with their X1… What bugs me about the whole thing is that nobody inside the United States seems to even know what an Xperia is? It was (and probably still is) one of the most powerful WinMo phones to ever launch, and yet, Sony didn’t even bother to get anyone interested in carrying the thing here. In the UK, it seemed they couldn’t give them away fast enough (carriers were offering them free! with a Nintendo Wii!) … But here, I had to shell out $800, and I got blank stares from anyone in any carrier office when I asked them if they were going to carry it! 

I guess I’m just fed up with the whole angle that Microsoft’s Mobile OS has taken, where it’s just the PC model made smaller, and the performance feels like living in a shack layered on top of a landfill. The specs of the new iPhone 3GS are only now as powerful as the X1, but yet, my old iPod Touch feels and works better than the X1. My final grievance is I’m just tired of following around a phone OS that has no one excited about and has no clear direction of it’s offerings… So, Apple, here I come, see you on Friday!