Comments on: Confirmed: Xperia X1a Black available only at Best Buy online

By: Derek

Derek — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:02:33 +0000

To all those who oppose and may never have even had the pleasure of owning a Sony Ericsson before, believe it. The X1a is THE SHIT. Black or Silver, who cares. The phone does everything it should and lives to the hype.
Doubters maybe out there but I own one and love it. It’s user friendly, it’s got ace vision and sound and despite the flack it got about it being slow between programmes it still moves with speed.
Best of all, it’s not a F#@$IN I (Wanna be) Phone.
Fact: The I-Phone is now dead, Long live the X1a.

BUY IT.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:38:32 +0000

Still no sign of this phone anywhere. Backorders on silver everywhere which I know a few batches of which shipped.

Black however is not to be found on bestbuy.com and it is the 8th at this point.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:07:17 +0000

Why is it no one at any Best Buy knows anything about this? They all say they don’t know if they’re even getting it in-store, only online, and their computers all say silver, not black.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:59:24 +0000

anyone else notice the $700 price on that receipt?

By: Jeeves

Jeeves — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:06:58 +0000

@keymaker

I need to clarify what Chris said, used unlocked HTC phones with or without Carrier modification sell for significantly more than contract prices on EBay, even 1-2 years after release. Unlike Symbian or IPhones, you can upgrade the OS a long time after.

By: keymaker

keymaker — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:39:55 +0000

Yeah right, ok buddy what ever you say

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:24:44 +0000

@keymaker

That’s completely false. Used upper end HTC phones sell for a pretty penny on eBay, and they continue to sell really well even years down the line.

By: keymaker

keymaker — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:59:12 +0000

This is one of those phones that in 6 months sell for under $200 on ebay , that why you have to love the jesus phone, i bought a refurbished jesus phone for $299 at the Apple store and after 7 months of used i got $500 for it on ebay, brought a new 16GB jesus and still ended up with $200 in my pocket

By: keland44

keland44 — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:35:08 +0000

i have to agree with chris i’d prefer this compared to the touch pro but for 700+ this is crazy
i don’t think sony thought this out very well it’s a great phone but it’s terrible marketing no one will pick it up to ATT selling the Fuze for a lot cheaper

By: Oscar

Oscar — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:54:41 +0000

I just ordered mine @ the Sony Style site. Currently it looks like only silver will be available.

Like you said, money comes and goes. Take it easy.

By: Wilson

Wilson — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:10:58 +0000

I’ll probably buy it just to have it, been wanting if forever now. The price is a bit high, but whatever….money comes and money goes, somebody has to fuel the economy!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:26:41 +0000

$600 or even $650 works, but $800=fail

And yes, I realize that a Touch Pro/ATT Fuze off of contract goes for the same price.

I’m a huge WinMo fan as it offers a ton of functionality I could NEVER get from Symbian, BB, or the iPhone. Furthermore, I really want this phone, but for me its either going to be when/if ATT picks it up and subsidizes it or through eBay for like $650 when the price drops.

By: ChemcialD

ChemcialD — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:38:07 +0000

When the price of a cellphone is $400 dollars more than your basic WIndows laptop … yeah. I cap my cellphones at $250, and even that makes me cringe. It’s just a phone maaaaaaan. In this economy, I doubt I’ll see one outside of BestBuy.

By: The Boy Genius(gets teabagged by Jobso)

The Boy Genius(gets teabagged by Jobso) — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:23:27 +0000

Sony Ericson is going to lose big on this piece of crap.

By: McHale

McHale — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:18:21 +0000

Yah, good luck competing with the TouchPro for $499. Hell, Best Buy is still charging $700 for the Touch Diamond.

They must be trying to appeal to the same people who bought the “I Am Rich” app from the Apple Store. Except I think the “I Am Rich” app is a better value.

I remember when Circuit City started carrying specialized crap (like the DIVX players). That seemed to work out well for them in the long run…

-Mc

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:16:36 +0000

Yeah, screw this. I’d rather get an unlocked Storm for $200 cheaper.

By: gquaglia

gquaglia — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:41:15 +0000

Hmm, $800 for a Win Mobile device made by Sony and only to be sold at Best Buy.
FAIL!

By: Swoyekr

Swoyekr — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:27:48 +0000

haha that’s great. I’d consider this phone if it was 200, 300 or even 400 bucks. But 800? It has no more capability then phones priced much lower. And honestly, it’s not the best looking thing, so i’ll pass.