After a couple of months of being on sale round the world, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc is now available through the US. However if you’re looking into picking the handset up, you will have to fork out the full price of the handset. The Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc is available for $600 unlocked from the Sony Store. It will work on AT&T and T-Mobile but, T-Mobile 3G won’t be supported unfortunately.

As of yet, a carrier is yet to pick up the Arc, so there are no monthly deals, or subsidized handset pricing, just the flat out $600. Hopefully a network carrier will pick the handset up soon, making owning the Xperia Arc, an affordable option.

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The reservation page for the Xperia X10 has gone live on the Sony Style website. Through the reservation page, you can order the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 on AT&T. While going directly through AT&T, the handset will cost you $149.99. However if you place an order through the Sony Style website, the handset is $20 cheaper at $129.99. This will tie you into a two year contract. The Xperia X10 will be released tomorrow in the US.

Unfortunately, the handset will come with Android 1.6, the same version of Android as the X10 was launched with in other countries around the world. Sony Ericsson have however said, they are working on a late Q3 release for Google Android 2.1, so hopefully we should see the update within the next six weeks. Until then, you can play around with the phone and see why Sony Ericsson are customizing the OS to include the Sony Ericsson UI, which brings in the unique TimeScape and MediaScape applications.

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When Sony and AT&T released the information that the Xperia X10 would be available from August 15th, one thing that was omitted among the specs and features of the phone, was the Android version the X10 would be running. In light of this, XperiaX10.net sent a Twitter message to Sony Ericsson North America. They have confirmed that, when the X10 is released in America, it will also be running Android 1.6.

Will this put you off getting the X10? As many handsets are already receiving the Android 2.2 update. Sony Ericsson have confirmed they are working for a late Q3 release but, will this be too late to save the handset in the US? With the Xperia X10 already being out 4 months in the UK, many would have thought Sony Ericsson could have finalized the Android 2.1 OS for the US launch.

Sony are once again teasing us with a count down timer for something smart, under the tag line of “Smarter is coming”. The count down timer currently stands at just over 24 hours, at which point we’ll find out what the latest product really is.

Our money’s on the Xperia X10 though. The picture underneath the timer significantly resembles the shape and style of the Android powered handset. We know that the handset will be headed to AT&T sometime in the next few weeks, so it’s very likely it could appear on the SonyStyle website first as an unlocked model. We’ll keep you posted on what the website actually reveals once the timer has run down.

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Good news for our American readers as it looks like the Xperia X10 from Sony Ericsson will finally be released in the US. The handset is due to be released sometime between the middle of August and the middle of September this year, so not too long to wait now. The handset will be made available through AT&T, where the Xperia X10 has recently passed the company’s technical acceptance test.

The device is, according to AT&T’s systems, to cost phone retailers $345 per handset but, it’s unknown currently what the subsidized and unsubsidized costs and tariffs will be. It is also very likely that the x10 handset will ship with the Google Android OS version 1.6 but, hopefully the expected 2.1 update should follow shortly after release of the X10 on US shores.

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While there are already plenty of Xperia X10 owners in the US, so far owners have had to import the handset from Europe or Canada, there aren’t any official US handsets in the US. This should change in the coming weeks however. Sony Ericsson’s Android powered Xperia X10 has finally passed through the Technical Acceptance Test from AT&T. While no official date has been set, now the X10 has passed through the AT&T Technical Acceptance process, the handset should be available in the coming weeks. Unfortunately pricing is also unknown but, BoyGeniusReport suspect it should have a $149-$199 price point, with a two year network contract. The Sony Ericsson Vivaz has also passed through the acceptance test and should be available as early as September.

The US is finally set to receive the Xperia X10, while other countries such as the UK and Canada are already enjoying Sony Ericsson’s Android powered handset. The company will be releasing the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 in week 30 of AT&T’s fiscal year. This timing makes it around the end of July/beginning of August. With still quite a lot of time until then, Engadget Mobile note, that it is unknown for AT&T to drop handsets at the last minute. Hopefully this won’t be the case with the Xperia X10.