The Mini X10, which was codenamed Robyn, appears to have been renamed to Recall. Rumors are rife that Sony Ericsson will announce Recall at the Mobile World Congress next month. Sony Ericsson are also likely to announce Abelin there, which could well be the Xperia X9. Albein will feature a QWERTY keyboard and resemble the BlackBerry. Like the X10 and Recall, Albein will also run on Android. Albein will also feature a 5 megapixel camera, like the X10 mini. Other information on specs are not known yet, nor are they any images of Albein in circulation.

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The much delayed Sony Ericsson Xperia X2 has finally shown up on the SonyStyle US website with a Coming soon notice. Over on the website, it’s listed as the X2a, for the American market. Hopefully this is a sign that the handset will eventually be released and soon. However, with the delays, Windows 6.5 may soon be outdated. Windows Mobile 6.6 is rumoured to be released next month and Windows Mobile 7 next year.

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With all the set backs of the X2, it comes as no surprised that the target release date of February won’t be fulfilled. SEMC Blog are reporting that the Android powered handset has been set back to March. The one upside of the X10 coming out a month later, is that it may include Android OS Eclair 2.0 instead of Donut 1.6. UK online retailer Play however, still have the release date as February but, 9 days later than the 10th February announcement.

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Over at Play.com, you can now pre-order the Xperia X2. They have the release date as January 29th. The handset will cost £499.99 from Play. The Sony Ericsson Store does not have the release date posted but, still says January 2010. Vodafone on the other hand, the page for the X2 is no longer available. Instead a page not found message is displayed.

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Sony Ericsson recently released their see through handset, the Xperia Pureness in the UK. Not available through mobile operators but rather, from Selfridges, the handset retails for £530 ($881). Now the handset, has been released in America, for an even higher price. Like in the UK, the handset is sold through a retail outlet, Saks Fifth Avenue as well as the Sony VIP Shopping Service. The handset is retailing for an incredibly high price of $990. US customers will also get a concierge service with the handset, providing 24 access to information on social events and hotspots anywhere in the world.

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One question which has been on the lips of many expectant X10 owners is, how good is the Xperia X10 camera? It’s also one of the many things I’ve been wondering about the X10. Well, wonder no more, Julian from AndroidPocketPC has a review unit and has taken various snaps with the handset. You can view the sample photos after the jump.

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Yes you read that right, the Xperia X10 has again hit the FCC. This time however the 3G bands listed are different and point to AT&T. The handset is listed as having 850 / 1900 WCDMA and EDGE. The networks which use these bands are AT&T, Bell, Telus and Rogers. The FCC doesn’t specify which network the handset will be branded with, so we can only speculate, but many of us are guessing it will be AT&T the handset will be tied to.

While the recent report from the FCC on the X10 hinted at being available on T-Mobile, new information has shown that it is pretty much guaranteed to hit T-Mobile. On page 3 of the PDF, it has shown that it will use 3G bands 1, 4 and 8. All of which belong to T-Mobile’s AWS 3G bands. So if you’re a T-Mobile customer, good news that you won’t have to change carrier if you’re after the X10.

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The Xperia X10 has been sent to the FCC for bench tests, reports and approval. Over on the FCC site, there are in the wild photos which have appeared, along with the user manual, bringing it a step closer to release. The reports show that the handset will run on Edge 850 / 1900, which is what T-Mobile’s band is.

The user manual is a full 40 pages, so if you plan on getting this phone on release, you can read up about how to use it, before you get it.

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While it’s been known for a little while now, that the Xperia X2 has been delayed until January, Xperiancers shed light as to why this is. Xperiancers had received some pre-release models and have played around with the handsets. At first, the software on the phone worked fine, but when trying network specific apps, some issues were found. Sony Ericsson are working on fixing these before the handset goes to retail.

It’s all minor tweaks really (extending the battery life and speeding up aspects of the software), but we want to be sure that when we ship this it is as good as it should be and that you don’t have to constantly upgrade the software as we iron out these wrinkles.

So… we’re launching first week of January. Really sorry if you were looking forward to getting hold of one before then but it will be worth it when we get there.