Pro: Built quality is good, good camera, very clear screen
Con:Bad firmware
After using about a month (after major operations - Sony Ericsson changed the almost everything except the cover), now I can finally review the Sony Ericsson.
Hardware
The built quality is very good. The back is made of metal (real metal not those plastic stimulated metal), comes with a stylus 4GB SD card, a USB mini (most phone using this format now -- to compete with iphone) and a 8.1Mbps camera. The charger is very mobile. Once you flip open the keyboard was great to type (might be a little small for bigger size people). The screen is 480x800 (vertical) or 800x400 (horizontal) or 3.2" screen size.
Also comes with the standard 3.5mm headphone jack (moving away from Sony connector). The SD card can be access by opening the metal back cover. 
Built in the hardware are GPS, Wifi, bluetooth and all band. Battery life is about 18 hours, may able to last 24 hours if you turn off HSPDA.
Note: My first X2 was working perfectly except that the RAM in certain part of the hardware was "dead" so they change the motherboard and change my imei.
Software
One word -- CRAP. Not sure is the hardware compatible issue or just crap.
First the auto-changing panels (able to display up to 9 panels). Some panels just too difficult to understand, example the Growing Panel 
The other panels are SPB Mobile Shell, Tileware, Driving (with GPS), CNN, Youtube, etc. I end up only using SPB Mobileshell.
Camera is like the very basic Sony Cybershot - touch focus and with geo-tagging. Music is like a basic Sony MP3 walkman. The sound from the speakers is actually very clear and loud (much better than the Omnia - someone always complaints that he cannot hear me when I called him from my Omnia, hmmm.... actuall all the recipients in this email are Omnia)
SMS, Email, MMS -- great when using the keyboard. When using the phone as a modem with a PC, the speed was fast enough for me to check football scores and read news. When pairing Bluetooth device, just like any other phone search and key in the pin code to confirm (Omnia is one step ahead, they insert in most major pin code into it, you just need to pair and need not key in the pin code)
Now why the software is CRAP...... Sony Ericsson already upgrade the firmware with the latest version known as MR1 (or Windows Mobile 6.5.1) and here is the items that is upgraded/enhanced:
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And they never/forgot mention that with the upgrade you will also:
a. lost the built in games (Experiment 13 and a racing game -- forgot the name)
b. all previous games from Sony Ericsson Playnow is now not playable
c. the phone will auto shutdown when the phone feels like it like to take a rest (so please continue to check your phone to make sure is not shutdown)
d. phone refuse to let you answer calls from your wife (guess the phone is jealous of iphone). Not sure why, sometimes when my wife or other iphone users call me, my phone just hang when I answer the call
e. at least once a week, you need to shut down and remove the battery to clear any nightmare/bad dream that the phone has during the sleep (auto shutdown), else most features thing won't work, actually the phone just hang
f. My phone now speaks German to me. My purchase game Real Football refuse to speak in English, must be preparing me for Bundesliga as Starhub will no longer has the rights to English Football.
The good news after all this was that I can received SMS and I get direct access to Singapore Xperia support team. Those guys are great and friendly even after all the calls they received from me, hmmm.... now they greet me by my name. I guess I am making my name in the Sony Ericsson office too.
Conclusion
I guess I need to correct my statement... if you need a smartphone, don't go near Sony Ericsson. I heard they have the same problems with Aino and Satio too.
Don't get me wrong, my experience with Sony Ericsson was very good (I still love my P800 - still in my drawer) but after the Xperia, I might go back to my first phone Motorola (the huge water bottle phone - at least it works)
Thank you for reading.
