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SlashPhone: Sony Ericsson this week announced 30 September 2008 as the official launch date for the Xperia X1 – initially available to consumers in the UK, Germany and Sweden.

The handset will be available in other markets across Europe, Asia and Latin America throughout Q4 2008.

In Western Europe other countries that will follow are Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands, Austria, Norway, Denmark, Belgium and Portugal.

In Central Europe Poland, Hungary and Czech Republic.

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PC World: Sony Ericsson wants Windows Mobile developers to start working on applications for its Xperia X1 and on Wednesday it announced a tailor-made SDK (software development kit) for the upcoming smartphone.

A beta version of the Sony Ericsson SDK for Windows Mobile 6.1 is available for download from the company Web page. It has already been used in-house and by some partners to develop panels for the user interface, according to Merran Wrigley, spokeswoman at Sony Ericsson.

Sony Ericsson isn’t trying to build a new developer community; instead it wants to take advantage of what’s already there, according to Wrigley. The SDK is based on Visual Studio, with extensions for the Xperia panel interface. “It will feel very familiar to existing Windows Mobile developers,” said Wrigley.

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HEXUS.lifestyle: Sony’s highly-anticipated XPERIA X1 is yet to make it to retail, but images of what appears to be its successor have leaked onto the web.

The poor-quality shots are said to be of a forthcoming Sony Ericsson handset, the XPERIA X5.

The images could, of course, be an elaborate Photoshop, but the leak has been accompanied with an early set of specifications.

The iPhone-like device is said to feature a 3.2in touchscreen display, slightly bigger than the XPERIA X1′s 3in offering. The touchscreen takes up nearly the entire front face, with what appears to be just two front-facing buttons.

It’s rumoured to feature 8GB of internal memory and will offer Wi-Fi and GPS.

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