Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Android phone

Sony Ericsson has unveiled its first Android phone, with a couple of tweaks of its own.

Sony Ericsson may have held back while the competition marched ahead with handsets running Google's open source OS, but the wait has paid off.

The Xperia X10 may run Android underneath, but Sony Ericsson has puts its own swish user interface on top, making it one most prodable and pokable touchphones yet.

The hardware isn't half bad either, with an 8.1-megapixel camera, a super-fast 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 1GB of memory and an 8GB memory card for storage.

The Xperia X10 will be out early next year, see Sony Ericsson for further details.