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Global mobile manufacturers may be moving from large to LARGER touchscreen smartphones but Sony Ericsson has not forgotten about the compact smartphone market. The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro is a one of its kind with a compact 2.55 inch full screen display.

Just one month before the release of the X10 Mini Pro, Sony Ericsson introduced the Xperia X10 Mini, an almost identical smartphone. The two smartphones are internally identical and the main difference is the additional slide out keyboard on the Mini Pro. Both the smartphones are running the Android operating system and they have the same 600 mhz Qualcomm processor. The initial operating system in the Xperia X10 Mini Pro is the Android 1.6 OS. It is however, upgradable to the newer Android 2.1 OS. The upgrade in the Android OS brings about pleasant improvements such as a better virtual keyboard and HTML 5 browsing capabilities.

The Xperia X10 Mini Pro comes in 3 colors, Black, Red and Pink. Surprisingly, it is just a slight 2mm thicker than the Xperia X10 Mini, although it comes with a slide out QWERTY keyboard. Both the phones feel similarly comfortable in our palms and pockets. You’ll most probably not notice the difference in thickness.

One thing that made a huge difference though, is the slide out QWERTY keyboard. Sony Ericsson perfectly analyzed the ergonomics of a handheld QWERTY keyboard and strategically positioned the keys for an extremely comfortable typing experience. The effort has reaped them huge rewards, as positive feedbacks have been overwhelming.

As a member of the Xperia family, the X10 Mini Pro comes with the elegant Xperia gallery and the accommodating Timescape UI. Timescape is Sony Ericsson’s solution to social network integration. The application monitors updates from your social networks and unify them on a 3D animated timeline. Additionally, contacts in your address book displays recent status updates and tagged photos. Don’t forget to visit Sony Ericssons’s “PlayNow” mobile store that sells games, apps and music.

Aside from the attractive interface, the Xperia X10 Mini Pro comes with a 5 megapixel camera to satisfy your photography needs. The camera snaps high-res photos and includes useful features such as video recording, LED flash and camera modes. Music lovers will also stand to benefit from the Sony Ericsson handsfree kit as it isolates noise to bring you crisp music and solid bass.

The most common worry about the Xperia X10 Mini Pro is usually related to its smaller touchscreen. Despite a lack of virtual real estate, Sony Ericsson had successfully optimized the interface to accommodate space restrictions. This means that you will not experience day-to-day frustrations on the compact smartphone. Ultimately, the main problem that lies with the virtual keyboard is tactfully solved with the slide out QWERTY keyboard. That leaves us with one disadvantage – the lower resolution of the screen causes incompatibility issues with a few Android applications.

For those of you who are particular about the size of your cell phones, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro will be a great choice. It comes with full smartphone capabilities and an affordable price tag!

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Not many people in the eighties could have predicted how popular the mobile phone would become. If you told someone back then that there would be a time when everyone would carry around one of these phones, they would not have believed you. Here we are though and it is almost impossible to imagine a world without mobile phones. You will even find mobile phones in some of the most remote and poor places in the world. And what is most amazing is that this rise from no mobiles to everyone having them has happened in a little over two decades. That is why it has become really interesting to wonder what the future will be like. Technology today is really moving very fast and so people are beginning to wonder whether mobile phones will be still around in a decade.

We are already seeing mobile phones evolve into something different than they were before. They have gone from just being something to phone and text with to being complete entertainment stations. These days there seems to be no end to the things we can do with our mobile phones; it is possible to write assignments for work, send emails, play games, listen to music, watch movies, surf the web or get onto social media sites and update profiles. It will probably happen soon that they will no longer be called mobile phones because they really can do so much more. It is hard to imagine what the next ten years will bring in terms of this kind of technology if the advances over the last ten years are anything to go by.

When you think about what might be ahead of us, it is hard not to get excited. By the time 2020 comes around I don’t think these devices will be called mobile phones anymore; this term will have been replaced in a similar fashion to how the term Walkman was replaced. Maybe by 2020 the way mobile technology will be sold will be in the form of jewellery. No one really knows how things are going to change but one thing we can all be sure of is that they will change.

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In sync with the growth of mobile devices over the past thirty years are the cellular networks that give them their name, and though there are many issues regarding cell phone networks – from coverage and service to unlocked cell phones and contracts – few people completely understand exactly what a cell phone network is, or how it works. Excluding those with unlocked cell phones, anyone using a mobile device most likely has a contract with a cell phone service provider, big companies like Verizon or AT&T being the two largest providers. What a cell phone user is actually paying for with their contract to these providers is the use of the cellular network that they have established across the country – and abroad.

The network itself is just a network of fixed location transceivers often known as cell sites or base stations positioned at fixed geographical locations over a wide area. The range associated with an individual base station at which a cell phone can reliably connect varies depending on many factors, such as the size and power of the station, as well as geographical features and other environmental factors. The range of each tower comprises what is referred to as a cell.

Therefore, a cellular network is a series of strategically positioned towers whose overlapping range of coverage is knit together, so that as long as a user is within range of at least one tower, they could get connected to the network and maintain a signal, even when moving between various cells. Verizon and AT&T have both managed to erect a cellular network that covers about 95% of the population within the continental US.

Once connected to the network, a signal or call could be forwarded to any other device that’s been programmed (through a service provider contract) to the network. Moreover, cell phone signals received by cell sites may also be run from the cell tower through hard lines to reach standard telephones wired into a building or home.

Whenever a cell phone is purchased together with a cellular service provider, the device is automatically programmed for use with that company’s cellular network. For example, iPhone users are contracted to AT&T, and therefore all of their calls are routed through AT&Ts network of base stations and cell sites. Unlocked cell phones are phones which have not been preprogrammed for any particular network, allowing users to pick whichever cellular network works best for them.

This is often determined by a number of factors unique to each company’s contract and terms of services, as relates to the user’s needs and financial capabilities. However, the geographical solidarity of a cell network is arguably more important, depending on where the user lives. In certain, more remote parts of the country, not all service providers have any installations physically situated nearby, and for that reason lack coverage.