Mobile market is growing quite fast lately, manufacturers compete to win their share by releasing high-end technology with good operating system on board. Sony Ericsson dropped behind for some time, but haven’t said the last word yet, still being big player wit it’s recent Xperia X10.

Let’s see how does it look compared to N900. X10 runs under control of Google Android 1.6 (not 2.1 as some expected), hardware looks pretty reasonable as for todays smartphone, with 480×854 4-inch touchscreen, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, 384MB RAM and 8.1Mpix camera. You can say ‘wow, better than N900‘. Maybe you’re right, mind the fact that hardware is newer. One thing that really suprised me in X10 is only 1GB of internal memory with possibility to use microSD card, while N900 offers built-in 32GB of memory! I realize it’s also used by system and applications space but it’s like 30 times more than X10. In case of connectivity both devices offer almost the same, 2G/3G GSM and HSDPA/HSUPA data connections, Bluetooth with A2DP sound profiles or WiFi. If you’re interested in more details, see the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 review on PhoneReport.

And again, this is my personal opinion as N900 user, software developer and Linux fan that Nokia looks better from my point of view. Mainly because hardware differences are rather minor, sometimes giving advance to N900, Android is still pretty tightly held by Google, while Maemo is much more open and gives much more freedom.

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