14 DAY TRIAL // Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson unveiled late last year its first handset running under Google's Android operating system, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, and the device can be seen now running the Éclair flavor of the OS in the video below.
While the Android 2.1 Éclair platform flavor might seem old to some, it is still something that Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 owners are only dreaming about.
The high-end mobile phone was launched on the market with the Android 1.6 platform on board, and did not receive an OS update until now.
However, the leading handset vendor did promise an update to the Android 2.1 operating system before the end of the third quarter of the ongoing year.
September seems to have been nailed down as the month when Xperia X10 receive the Android 2.1 blessing, and when Sony Ericsson updates the smaller Xperia X10 min and X10 mini pro too.
Recent reports on the matter suggested that the company confirmed once again plans to have the OS version loaded on X10 devices this month, and the only thing that remains to be seen is when the update process is set to kick off.
In the meantime, we can take a look at the Xperia X10 running under the Android 2.1 platform in the video below, just as to make an idea of how the two would get along.
Unfortunately, the video is in German, which means that many might not understand what's being said there, but the features that are demonstrated should be pretty clear, such as live wallpapers and more.
According to a recent article on Androinica, the video was shot during the IFA tech event in Berlin, Germany, and proves that the mobile phone maker is getting closer to releasing the software update into the wild.
It might be a little late from a certain point of view, especially since many other devices got the Android 2.2 OS on board, but it's still great news for Xperia X10 owners, that's for sure.