Blog of Kim Loon

After much consideration, I finally got my Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Pro. And in no time, I started exploring this phone.

The phone was very small, even small than my palm. This was a contrast to most other touch screen phone with much bigger screen. The only thing was that it was quite thick due to the key pad.

Contact List

One of the first thing I did was to export my contact list list to the new phone. I had a habit of synchronizing my PC address book with my phone’s one. In the past, I would do so using the given cable or Bluetooth.

Suddenly, I realized that, with an Android phone, process had changed.

There were two options with X10 Mini Pro. First, Sony Ericsson provided storage space in their servers for us to store our address book and calendar. The other options was to make use of Google Gmail. Of course, this was an Android phone, the operating system was from Google. I decided to opt for the latter one.

There was a software provided by Google to sync my Outlook contact with my Gmail. Somehow, unfortunately, I could not manage to get that to work well. So, I had to do it in the manual way.

This took me a bit of time, exporting from my PC address book and importing to the Google Gmail Contact list. Good thing was, it was only an one time task.

After I had setup my phone for my Gmail Account, I soon found that my phone address book was updated.

Calendar

I did not expect that the calendar part was much easier and faster than the Contact List. I simply download another software from Google. This software would automatically sync my Outlook Calendar with my Google Calendar. This would in term sync my Google Calendar with my X10 Mini Pro Calendar.

One thing to take note that, I had to enable the Calendar Sync under the “Phone Setting”, “Data Sync” for it to periodically sync the calendar.

Phone Calls

This was the most basic function of a mobile phone. Making phone call was easy. It took my a while to get use of the receiving phone call.

Like most touch screen based phone, I had to slide on the screen to answer a call on the X10 Mini Pro. When my finger was a bit wet, the screen might not be as responsive as I hoped for. It took me a few sliding to answer a call.

Overall, as I got used to my new Sony Ericsson X10 Mini Pro, I began to enjoy the convenience it provided on the basic functions. I just need to update my phone, and my Google Gmail contact or Calendar would be updated and also the other way round.

Soon I began to explore more functions of this Android Phone.