Half a million Swedish has an Iphone. Those who want an alternative to try out Sony Ericsson's new X10. New technology has been tested, and it is up to standard.

Therefore, it was a pleasure to test the new X10 and note that the paragraph after paragraph offers a pleasant experience.

To the outer cell phone is both stylish and comfortable to hold in. Slightly more than Iphone, but not too large, While the screen is significantly larger than the iPhone, and has more than twice the resolution.

As usual, Sony Ericsson spirit has also high-resolution camera - eight megapixels.

Good is the three physical buttons on the front page - Home Button, options and backward. They work better than the touch buttons on the Google mobile Nexus One.

Touch screen - what is essential on a touch screen mobile phone - is not quite as responsive as the iPhone but still very good. Writing on-screen keyboard works very well in both portrait and landscape mode.

The interior is Android in version 1.6. Better would have been version 2.0 or 2.1, which is in a few mobiles, including Google's own Nexus One. According to Sony Ericsson will be an upgrade in the future - not clear when.

Lack of under 1.6 makes all multi-touch - to be able to pinch with two fingers to zoom into images and web pages. Plus built-in support for Microsoft's e-mail with Exchange / Outlook, this is now managed quite well with the program Moxie.

The link to Google's service is impeccable, of course - everything from Gmail and maps to office programs, Google Docs. Synchronization of contacts made against Google, but that option is also available in Sony Ericsson's own sync service also works with most standard mobile phones.

Thus one can easily move all contacts from an ordinary mobile phone into X10.

Sony Ericsson's own additions to the mobile’s software consist of two main programs - Cape Times and Cape Media.

The first is a sort of super version of a last-call-list, now with everything from email, taken pictures and play music to Facebook and Twitter Messages.

It is right thinking - an attractive and theoretically efficient way to see what happened. One can also focus on a person and see all the events in relation to this.

I'm the Cape Times, a bit slow and clumsy when you want to go in depth into the events. The program is easy to remove for those who want. Instead, one can use the existing Android applications for Twitter, Facebook and more.

The new media player Media Cape is the more successful - in particular, a soft-related content, the so-called "infinity" button that appears on the screen in different modes.

Pressing on the image for example, see images of the same person (with Face Detection Technology), or photos taken at the same place (the "Geotag" of the GPS position).

Another feature in the picture is that fotalbum from Facebook and Picasa are integrated and appear next to the pictures stored on your mobile.

In music mode allows infinity button an automatic search on Youtube for clips related to a specific song, or a search in the music store - built is Sony Ericsson's Play Now, but other retailers, such operator may be added.

Additionally, Media Cape retrieves album art for songs if they bear the title and name of the album.

Media Cape as a whole is neat and efficient, but the minus is that the image display has been significantly worse than the surface of the iPhone, and that there is no equalizer for music listening.

Androids weakness is that it now "only" are 36 000 additional programs, including payment programs - roughly one third - yet can be downloaded in Sweden. For iPhone, there are currently over 150 000 "apparatus".

Otherwise, the X10 is a clear iphone-alternative, and one of the best Android phones, even compared to Google's Nexus One.