Get your bunting ready and balloons on standby: we’re about to throw the world’s fastest party with the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. It’ll turn you into the world’s best connected social butterfly, and does so at speed. There’s no better way to throw an impromptu get together, and spread the word to everyone you know in just a few seconds.
See, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 doesn’t just store your mates’ phone numbers, it’s tuned into their Facebook updates, Twitter posts, e-mails and text messages to you, keeping you in the loop and delivering an instant overview of your social network. Follow our guide, and we’ll show you how this Android smartphone flexes its social media muscle to make soirees easy to set up and host in under a minute.
Location, location, location
Google Maps is pre-installed on the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, and a quick search for venues will show you ratings from other customers too. But you don’t have to pick a location by reviews alone. Use Google Latitude to check out friends in the neighbourhood and make sure there’re tons of guests at a moment’s notice before you book a venue. You can even see what your mates are up to and whether they’ve got plans or not. Once you’ve got a handle on the guest list use Facebook, Twitter, e-mails, texts, instant messages or a good old fashioned phone call to invite everyone with the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10.
Spread the word online
If you want to make things a little less intimate and guarantee your party is packed with people, you can jump online and spread the word through Facebook and Twitter, direct from the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10′s Timescape interface. It’s a unique contacts app that hoovers in all your texts, e-mails, calls, Facebook updates and tweets, and keeps tabs on all the banter with each of your mates. Fire it up from the homescreen, and simply tap out a message letting everyone know the where and when the party’s going down. Want to watch them comment and re-tweet? No problem, the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 updates Timescape’s information automatically, so you’ll see the crowds forming well in advance.
Icing on the cake
The Android Market has tons of handy apps to help you sort a party even quicker with the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. The latest version of Google Maps is a must have: because Google Latitude can run as a widget on your Sony Ericsson Xperia X10′s homescreen, you don’t even need to open up Google Maps to know when your mates are nearby, just glance at the screen, and you can see their location.
You can even have your Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 do the DJing for you at the party. Plug it in to the speakers through the headphone socket and dive into Mediascape to eye up your music library. There’s 8GB of storage inside, so you’ve no chance of hearing the same track twice in one evening. Set it to shuffle through tracks, or set the mood and keep up the ambience with the Last.fm Android app from the Android Market: just pick an artist, and let it come up with similar music for you. The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 will stream music over 3G, or if the jamboree is at your pad, hook it up to your home Wi-Fi network.
Go further
You can use your Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 to pencil in that party in just seconds, but it doesn’t have to stay backstage when you’re there: it’s armed with a top notch 8.1 megapixel camera. Whip it out, use its face and smile detection features, and get great shots to share with friends through Facebook or Picassa web albums. Bring a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 to the party, and you’ll instantly be the belle of the ball.
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