Sony Ericsson to Announce Xperia X3 Rachael on November 3 Sony Ericsson Ready to Unveil Its First Android Smartphone

Sony Ericsson has been a disappointing handset maker lately. The
Japanese-Swedish giant hasn t been able to come up with a hot phone in a
while and the company has reported losses every quarter. It even failed
to launch and Android phone yet although all the signs are there.
Android is getting a lot more attention from carriers and manufacturers
and we re about the see a lot of new Android-based gadgets soon.

HTC is for now the most successful Android cell phone maker but Motorola
is closing in fast. So why has Sony Ericsson disregarded Android phones
when more and more people want them? Why hasn t Sony Ericsson been
following those rumors saying that Motorola is going to focus on Android
phones? After all Motorola isn t doing that good either. A former major
player in the mobile business, Motorola has realized that making RAZR
phone after RAZR phone was not going to be enough anymore and it shifted
its attention to Google s mobile OS.

And while Motorola has already launched an Android phone, the CLIQ, and
it s getting ready to launch at least another two by the end of the
year, Sony Ericsson is yet to show its audience that it s ready for
Android phones..

That might change however starting with November 3. A special event is
scheduled for next week and it looks like the Xperia X3 aka Rachael,
Sony Ericsson s first Android phone, will be finally unveiled. The phone
s name, �Rachael �, has been found in the HTML code of Sony Ericsson s
�What s Next � webpage so it looks like next week we might be able to
confirm everything,

The Rachael is said to arrive with a 4-inch WVGA display, an 8-megapixel
camera and a super fast 1GHz Snapdragon processor. These features are
very much in line with what we ve heard about the Xperia X10 last week.
According to some sources the X10 should be the first Android phone
coming from Sony Ericsson s plants and not the X3. Whatever the model
number of the device, it s a safe thing to say that the phone will be
known as the Rachael. Unfortunately for Sony Ericsson it might be too
little and way too late. The Droid will probably sell like hot cakes
especially since the Internet is buzzing about the Droid. On the other
hand nobody really cares all that much about the Rachael right now.