Mobiles have the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 available for £49.90 with a £10 top up. You can choose from Vodafone, O2 or Orange but, regardless of the network chosen, phones from Mobiles.co.uk come unlocked as standard. Despite requiring a £10 top up, the total price of £59.90 is still a bargain price for the phone.

Despite this, O2 still warn that the Xperia X10 may run slower once updated than it currently does on Android 2.1. Users of the O2 forum however so far have found the opposite with Quadrant tests showing Android 2.3 almost doubles the results. To update you will need to connect your phone to a PC and use PC Companion to update. You will need to back up your data with an app from the Market as the 2.3 update wipes your data and the Backup and Restore feature found on the X10 has been removed from the 2.3 update.

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We recently reported that the Argos outlet store on eBay were selling the Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 on O2 for only £74 instead of the usual £99. We’ve now found that Argos are also selling the Xperia X10 Mini at a reduced price.

Again the handset is on their outlet store on eBay. Normally the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini is £119 on O2 but, through eBay you can pick up the X10 Mini for £83.98 including delivery.

Even though the Xperia X10 Mini is last year’s model, this is a very reasonable discount on the price and is almost half the price of Sony Ericsson’s 2011 Mini model, the Xperia Mini. For those new to Android, this is a great little handset. Even though the X10 Mini’s version of Android won’t be updated above 2.1, this is adequate enough for the type of handset it is. It comes equipped with a 5 megapixel camera which a lot of similar priced handsets don’t have.

Rogers Canada have put the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 on the Rogers red hot deals section. Rogers are offering the Xperia X10 on a one year contract for new activations, with the price of the handset only $25.50. Monthly prices are relatively low as well, with the minimum price plan listed as $32.35 a month.

While the Xperia X10 may be last year’s model from Sony Ericsson this is still a cracking price for friends or relatives who are yet to move over to the smartphone or Android world. Head on over to Rogers to take advantage of this offer. It’s only available while stocks last.

For anyone that has seen the new Sony Ericsson Xperia home launcher on the yet to be released Xperia Ray handset and been curious as to when it might become available for the current Xperia handset range, then news of the leak of the home launcher itself may be welcomed.

Working on the Xperia X10, Xperia Arc, Xperia Play and the Xperia Neo, the home launcher can be installed using a file manager to transfer and install the leaked .apk file. It adds quirky new features to the current home launcher including the ‘floating’ widgets when in the widget screen and shaking the phone – the widgets move around the screen, activated by the movement. Also featured is the ability to uninstall apps more easily.

The home launcher .apk file can be found here for anyone that wants to experience the new home launcher for themselves.

After Sony Ericsson changed their plans for the Xperia X10 and announced they would update the Xperia X10 to Android 2.3 after saying they wouldn’t be releasing further updates to the X10 range, there have been many angry customers and many customers left wondering if Sony Ericsson will also change the plan for the X10 Mini range, including the X8.

Sony Ericsson announced that they wouldn’t release a further update for the Xperia X10, X10 Mini, X10 Mini Pro and X8 but, later released another statement saying because of all the uproar, they would release Android 2.3 for the X10. They also said that they stood by their decision about the Mini range and still do.

Vodafone Australia however, state they are anticipating Android 2.3 in six weeks time for the X10 Mini Pro and will begin testing it. Due to many questions from customers about the status of Android updates for various handsets, they put a blog post together detailing what version of Android is running on various handsets and what the next version will be. It also says what the status is on the update, some saying it was released a week or two ago, others saying they’re going through testing. Vodafone will finish testing Android 2.3 on the X10 in a couple of weeks time. The X10 Mini Pro is also listed, with a note saying the test stage hasn’t been scheduled yet but, they anticipate to have Android 2.3 to test in six weeks time.

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Like previous updates from Sony Ericsson, the update is being rolled out in phases, a few European countries have confirmed that the update is available, including the UK. The update is available initially for unbranded handsets and hopefully network providers will also begin rolling out the update but, what networks which will do this is currently unknown unfortunately.

We reported yesterday that Sony Ericsson had released the much awaited Android 2.3 update for the Xperia X10. This information came from reports across the internet as well as the Sony Ericsson website showing that the update was now available. It seems however that this isn’t the case. Sony Ericsson have posted on their blog that the update page on their website was a bit “premature”. The update is still planned for this week but, as of yet the Android 2.3 Xperia X10 update has not began rolling out. This has been clarified by the blog post on the Sony Ericsson website, as well as various statements from Sony Ericsson through their Facebook pages.

Sony Ericsson go on to say that, although the information was a little early, the release of Android 2.3 is imminent and will be out within the time frame previous specified. So we should see the update arrive before Sunday night.

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We reported earlier that Sony Ericsson had confirmed that the Android 2.3 aka Gingerbread update would be released this week for unbranded generic handsets. It seems that Sony Ericsson have come through with this announcement and Android 2.3 with Facebook inside Xperia has been released for the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10.

Initial reports state that the update has been released in the US. However, customers with an AT&T branded handset are not included in this and instead your North American Xperia X10 will need to be unbranded.

The update brings Android up to 2.3 and adds Facebook inside Xperia, which offers various ways to integrate with Facebook, such as liking tracks you’re listening to and your handset and a post being published on your Facebook profile saying that you like a link, which includes the artist or band’s name and track name. The link takes you to the song on TrackID. You will also be able to use your handset as a Wi-Fi hotspot or tether via USB.

Before updating, you will want to back up your data but, not using the Backup and Restore feature on the phone as this will be removed upon completion of the update.

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The update will bring the handset up to the latest version of Android, used on most other Android smartphones already, including the company’s 2011 Xperia models, the Xperia Arc, Play and Neo. This will be the first time that the X10 has been “up to date” as it was launched with an outdated version of Android – 1.6. It was eventually upgraded to 2.1 but, 2.2 was already out and had been for months and 2.3 was already just around the corner.

The update will be for unbranded handsets and will be rolled out to various countries in different stages like the 2.1 update was. The 2.3 update is only for the Xperia X10 and not the X10 Mini or X10 Mini Pro as they don’t have enough RAM to run Gingerbread.

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