The Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 was announced in February 2008 and released in October 2008 but by that time, it was already behind in the specs and there were already leaks of specs and pictures in late 2007. At the time of release other phones such as the Nokia N95 were still far ahead of the game, mind that the N95 was released back in March of 2007. The X1, nonetheless, was still a very stylish handset, a decent performer and could have been considered Sony Ericsson’s flagship phone. Now Sony Ericsson has announced the  Xperia X2 aka  Xperia Rachel and the specs look very, very promising. This handset is set to boast Google’s Android OS, making SE the third company to use this OS after HTC and Samsung. Below are the specs known so far.

Incomplete Spec Sheet:

-4″ touchscreen with WVGA resolution (800 x 480 pixels) and 16:9 aspect ratio
-Arch-slider design
-Qualcomm QSD8250 Snapdragon platform CPU
-1GHz CPU and dedicated graphics acceleration
-512 MB RAM
-SE customized Android 2.0 OS
-8 MP auto focus camera with LED flash, 0.3 MP Secondary front camera
-VGA video recording
-Assisted GPS and QuickGPS
-Wi-Fi (802.11b, 802.11g), GPS and 3G with HSDPA
- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
-3.5 mm jack and a standard miniUSB jack
-microSD, microSDHC, TransFlash, SDIO
-USB: USB 2.0 client, 480Mbit/s mini-USB

On a side note; Sony Ericsson has been dieing lately in terms of stocks and profit, even with the release of the Xperia X1, and according to the 2009 Q2 reports, SE posted a net loss of 213 million euro. It expects to bounce back up with the SE Satio, Aino and Yari and possibly later on with the Xperia Rachel.

Back to Rachel, here is a video, courtesy of GSMArena, of the customized  Android OS 2.0 UI in action: