Available for free on a £35 monthly plan

Apr 1, 2010 13:36 GMT  ·  By

Sony Ericsson X10, the first Android-based mobile phone launched on the market by Japanese-Swedish handset vendor, has just emerged on the website of yet another wireless carrier in the UK, namely O2. The handset is listed on the operator's online shop as available for free with a £35 monthly plan for a 24-month period.

As most of you might already know, the Sony Ericsson X10 has been already announced to land at various carriers in the UK, and some of them, such as Vodafone, offer their customers the possibility to order the device in advance and will ship it in the following few days. With availability on most carriers in the country, the device is poised to become very popular in a short period of time, and the features it brings along will also give it a hand.

In case there are some who are not yet familiar with Sony Ericsson X10's specifications, we should mention that it comes with a 4-inch touchscreen display (although without support for multi-touch), coupled with an 8-megapixel photo snapper with face recognition and other feature already familiar to most Sony Ericsson users, 1GB of internal memory coupled with a memory card slot with support for up to 16GB of additional storage space (an 8GB memory card included in the package).

Moreover, the device includes a wide range of connectivity options, such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB or 3G, as well as GPS receiver, FM radio, Music player, video player, support for a series of messaging features (Media messaging (MMS), SMS, Email, IM), Internet connectivity, and more, as well as the handset vendor's own Timescape and Mediascape applications. “Mediascape brings all your music, photos and videos together. Timescape brings all your contacts, messages and social networking accounts together,” the carrier notes.

The handset measures 119 x 63 x 13 mm, weighs in at 135g and comes with a battery that can deliver up to 10 hours of talk time or up to 16 days of standby time. When launched on the market, the phone will run under Android 1.6, but its maker already promised than it would be upgraded to newer flavors of Google's operating system. You can check on the Sony Ericsson X10 on O2's website here.