Battle between Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 and BlackBerry Curve 8520

Earlier people used to carry mobile phones just for communication purpose but now users want lots of tasks done by their mobile phones like photography, Web browsing, entertainment, office related tasks etc. Sony Xperia X2 and BlackBerry Curve 8520 are the popular mobile phones from Sony Ericsson and BlackBerry. Both of these gadgets are furnished with excellent features and provide mind blowing performance with stunning features but these are quite different from each other. Go through the features to pick any one of these according to your choice and requirement.

Physical aspects

Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 runs on Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional operating system. It is an amazing touch screen phone and comes in curved arc shape designed casing that measures 110 x 54 x 16 mm and overall weighs 155 grams in weight. The 3.2 inches TFT touchscreen has high resolution of 800 x 480 Pixels and displays 65k colours. It is equipped with slide out full QWERTY keyboard along with Optical trackpad, XPERIA panels user interface and accelerometer sensor. While BlackBerry Curve 8520 works on BlackBerry OS and comes with full QWERTY keyboard with Touch-sensitive optical trackpad. It is only of 106 grams and casing measures 109 x 60 x 13.9 mm. You will get 2.64 inches TFT non-touch screen with 320 by 240 pixels resolution and 65K colours.

Comparison between highlighted features of these two smartphones:

Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 is a camera focused phone and comprises 8.1 MP camera with a set of advanced camera features comparatively BlackBerry 8520 Curve is having just 2 MP camera with common features. In terms of connectivity the Xperia X2 supports all latest connectivity features like 3G HSDPA, HSUPA, WLAN Wi-Fi, HSCSD, GPRS, EDGE, Bluetooth and USB while its competitor is missing 3G technology.

As far as the storage space is concerned, Sony Ericsson X2 Xperia contains 110 MB internal memory and up to 16GB can be upgraded while BlackBerry Curve 8520 has 256 MB built-in memory and up to 32GB is expandable. Both of these phones support all popular messaging services like SMS, MMS, Instant Messaging, Email but the only difference is that Xperia X2 supports additional Exchange ActiveSync® and Predictive Text Input while Blackberry’ phone missing it but supports Wireless Email with Attachments. Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 is a YouTube Compatible phone incorporating Internet Explorer® Mobile and supports RSS Feeds but Blackberry 8520 Curve has only HTML Browser. You can do all of your documental works on both of these devices through document viewer.