Sony Ericsson has unveiled its new Android handset, the Xperia X10, and is planning to stake its claim for a place in the burgeoning Android market.

The new phone is fairly similar to the 'new crop' of touchscreen phones, packing a super-fast 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and a 4-inch high resolution screen.

Specs wise, the Xperia X10 has jumped to the head of the Android pack, and has added in a new overlay that's probably the most comprehensive among other competitors too.

The whole thing has been codenamed the 'UX' platform (which stands for User eXperience - you see what they did there). It's basically a whole new way of locating and playing with media, contacts and social networks - with each aggregated in a 'spline' (we're not too impressed with the naming either.

On the contacts side of things, the 'Timescape' element allows you to see what's going on with a whole group of friends in a spline (by the way, this is a fusion of the words 'spine' and 'timeline' we think - not that that makes it any more palatable).

And if you want to look at a specific con