2012-02-29, 09:22 PM
I have a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 from AT&T. Mine is black, but I saw a girl at McDonalds the other day with a white one. 
I got it about a year ago, at the time it was advertised to have the biggest screen on a smartphone currently available on the market. (Not sure if this is still true.)
For the most part, I probably wouldn't recommend any AT&T phone - I've been with them for years and they have a tendency to add loads and loads of bloatware applications you can't uninstall without hacking the phone. They also like to disable some of the phones features for "security" reasons, which again, requires hacking to get around.
As for the phone itself, I thought it was great when it was running Android 1.6. I've been having problems with it since AT&T finally released an update to Android 2.1, though. It randomly restarts itself every so often, and sometimes the interface lags really bad. It eventually gets to the point where the phone won't stay turned on long to accomplish anything before needing to just reflash the firmware onto it and start over--then it's okay for a few months. I don't know if this is a problem with AT&T's version of the firmware, the Xperia overall, or just a weird Android issue. I haven't been brave enough to try hacking my phone up to Android 2.3 to see if it would fix it.
I have unlimited text and 2gb monthly of data... I've never even used 1gb of it. I don't think any carriers provide unlimited data for smartphones anymore. When I was looking into a new phone last year, though, AT&T did still allow unlimited data for their regular and "messaging" phones, but once it crossed the line into smartphone it was a no go. If I remember right, some of the "messaging" phones were still full touchscreen phones that could run on the 3G (maybe now 4G?) network, they just lacked the the smartphone operating system.
(....I'm now wondering if it is possible to get one of those messaging phones with unlimited data, and then put the simcard into a smartphone?... they might be able to detect this. hm.)
I got it about a year ago, at the time it was advertised to have the biggest screen on a smartphone currently available on the market. (Not sure if this is still true.)
For the most part, I probably wouldn't recommend any AT&T phone - I've been with them for years and they have a tendency to add loads and loads of bloatware applications you can't uninstall without hacking the phone. They also like to disable some of the phones features for "security" reasons, which again, requires hacking to get around.
As for the phone itself, I thought it was great when it was running Android 1.6. I've been having problems with it since AT&T finally released an update to Android 2.1, though. It randomly restarts itself every so often, and sometimes the interface lags really bad. It eventually gets to the point where the phone won't stay turned on long to accomplish anything before needing to just reflash the firmware onto it and start over--then it's okay for a few months. I don't know if this is a problem with AT&T's version of the firmware, the Xperia overall, or just a weird Android issue. I haven't been brave enough to try hacking my phone up to Android 2.3 to see if it would fix it.
I have unlimited text and 2gb monthly of data... I've never even used 1gb of it. I don't think any carriers provide unlimited data for smartphones anymore. When I was looking into a new phone last year, though, AT&T did still allow unlimited data for their regular and "messaging" phones, but once it crossed the line into smartphone it was a no go. If I remember right, some of the "messaging" phones were still full touchscreen phones that could run on the 3G (maybe now 4G?) network, they just lacked the the smartphone operating system.
(....I'm now wondering if it is possible to get one of those messaging phones with unlimited data, and then put the simcard into a smartphone?... they might be able to detect this. hm.)