May 31, 2011 09:09 GMT  ·  By

Starting today, AT&T's customers who own an Xperia X10 smartphone from Sony Ericsson would be able to enjoy a new operating system on their devices. The long promised Android 2.1 Éclair software update is set to land on their phones as soon as today, Sony Ericsson has just announced via their Twitter account.

The software update arrived on Xperia X10 devices out there in late 2010, but AT&T's customers were left behind. However, starting today, they would be able to enjoy the benefits of this new OS flavor on their handsets as well.

Here's what Sony Ericsson announced that this update would bring:

HD video recording with continuous auto-focus for high quality videos Upgrade of the Android platform to Android 2.1 New backup and restore application, with extended content back up 5 homescreens for apps, widgets, shortcuts and folders Social phonebook which automatically syncs contact pictures from Facebook and shows when your friends are online

Of course, in addition to the new features that come to Xperia X10 through this software update, a series of other enhancements and fixes were included into the mix as well.

The new software update for AT&T's Xperia X10 devices can be found on Sony Ericsson's website here.

The immediate availability of this update comes as great news for AT&T's Xperia X10 owners, who have been stuck on Android 1.6 for a very long time.

However, this makes us wonder whether the Android 2.3 Gingerbread software update would be released for them or not.

Although they initially said that Xperia X10 won't taste a new OS upgrade beyond Éclair, Sony Ericsson announced in late March that Gingerbread would be released for the handset, and that they are already working on it.

Although the release of Android 2.1 for AT&T's Xperia X10 was pushed back by more than half a year, we can only hope than the same won't happen with Gingerbread too.

For the time being, Xperia X10 users on AT&T's network should head over to this support page to learn more on the Android 2.1 software update for their devices.

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