Sony Ericsson has announced two new compact versions of its Xperia 10 mobile phone—the Xperia X10 mini and X10 Mini Pro—at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Both of these mobiles will run the Android operating system. X10 Mini Pro includes a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, while X10 Mini is a simple touchscreen phone.
Both of these mobiles are equipped with features like a 5 megapixel camera, an organizer, video player, location-based services like Google Maps, GPS and Wisepilot, a music player, messaging facilities, webkit browsers. Sony Ericsson is planning to release the X10 Mini Pro and X10 Mini in the second quarter of 2010.
Mini Mobile Phones
The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini and the X10 Mini Pro
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