Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 - The Android Landscape
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Master of Time and Media
Our earlier preview of both the Timescape and Mediascape was limited due to the device's early developmental nature. Now with the final unit in our hands, we will be delving deeper into the X10's unique feature that combines your communications and multimedia content into a single timeline.
Let's take a look at Timescape. To recap, Timescape allows you to add various accounts such as email, Facebook and Twitter on top of the phone's standard messaging and call notifications. In total, there are seven specific tiles within Timescape, which includes Twitter, Facebook, Call Log, Messaging, Email, Camera and Music. Within Timescape, you can also customize the displayed content. In our case, we'd prefer to keep the layout to be as minimal as possible. There are two ways to go about this. You can customize the main tile to display specific feeds. By doing so, you could remove the corresponding tiles to keep the interface clean and simple.
Alternatively, you can sort through the information that you really need, and remove the tiles that aren't often in use. In reality, we'd rather populate Timescape with communication-focused tiles such as Email, Facebook, Twitter, Messaging and Call Log. Multimedia content such as Music and Camera are more suited to be explored in the Mediascape interface.
If you remember, we did talk about the expanded features of Timescape when you click on the infinity logo on a specific contact. You'll then be directed to a page where anything pertaining to that specific contact is listed. This includes all the accounts you've added, including Facebook and Twitter. Unfortunately, with the different handles that people take on for their online persona and real life identity, you'll probably spend more time trying to link up your contacts to the respective online accounts.
We've also managed to touch on Mediascape in our earlier preview. As its name implies, this interface focuses upon the multimedia content within the X10, segregated into Music, Video and Photo. Each tab is further segmented, and depending on the specific tab, you get a list of your most recently played or recently added media. Under the same tab, you'll find the PlayNow music download service. There isn't much to relay with the Video tab, but moving on to the Photos section, and you'll have more options to explore. Mediascape also ties back to your online accounts, displaying any online photo albums from your logged-in Facebook or Picasa accounts.
Likewise, there's also an infinity icon that expands the multimedia options with the X10. In particular, any song that you expand upon will initiate a search based on the artist. This includes any other songs sharing the same artist on your memory card, via the PlayNow music service, and related videos on YouTube. If all else fails, there is always a web search, which crawls through Google to find a match.
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