One of the biggest complaints we had about Google’s Android mobile operating system was the fact that there were very few handsets in India running it. In fact, until last Friday, there were just five Android handsets in India: the HTC Hero, the HTC Tattoo, the HTC Magic, the Samsung Galaxy and the Samsung Spica). Well, that number just got bumped up by three as three more players entered the Indian Android fray - Sony Ericsson with the Xperia X10, Motorola (welcome back, Moto) with the Milestone and LG with the GW620.
Without going too deeply into the tech specs of this Android threesome (they are all over the Internet anyway), I think we can safely say that these are targeted at three different segments. The Xperia X10 is a multimedia monster with a 8 megapixel camera and a lovely 4 inch touchscreen display, the Milestone is more of an all arounder with a QWERTY slideout keypad, 3.7 inch touchscreen, while the GW620 is playing to the benches with the most modest specs of the lot, but a price tag that at Rs 16, 490 is about half that of the Milestone (Rs 32,490) and the Xperia X10 (Rs 35,795).
In terms of Android, the Milestone has the latest version (2.1), while the Xperia X10 has 1.6 and the GW620 is still at 1.5. We will be taking a more in depth look at this threesome in the coming days. Bookmark this site.
Take the iconic BlackBerry QWERTY keypad, throw in a touchscreen capable of multi-touch(we hear!), add a new powerful operating system and some decent multimedia…and you might get something like the recently announced Sony Ericsson Aspen smartphone. Yes, we know that Sony Ericsson was a major player in the QWERTY phones department with the legendary P series and even with the Xperia, but its QWERTY keypads were either hidden behind normal ones (in the original P series) or came as a slide outs in the Xperia. That’s why we are so interested in the new Sony Ericsson Aspen, which looks like a BlackBerry-Nokia E71 clone, only with the snazzy Sony Ericsson looks thrown in. The device is not due to be out until the second quarter of this year, but we must admit to being very curious at Sony Ericsson’s first real go at a BlackBerry clone. 
