erm.. my xperia 8 months plus.. as smooth as new xperia still... very nice design and durable slider.

The slider is perfect, I think you should be more concerned of the keyboard quality and the area around the battery cover which has a lot of problems reported by various users.

I would suggest lurking around Garage Sales for some really good 2nd hand deals. Lately I've been seeing a lot of threads selling few months old original X1 at ridiculously low prices.

Really make me regret buying my X1 so early

Nope, Malaysia don't have this kind of plan.

Honestly la, even if you buy new set most likely you'll encounter build quality issues with the X1. Cracks, keyboard problem and recently the slide out ribbon problem is more and more common.

That is why for X1 I strongly recommend you to buy an original set, whether 2nd or not it's really up to you.

hm...mine is AP silver color. but i thought ORI set in malaysia is only black color? Am i right?

but dude, honestly, i really dun suggest you to get X1, due to the cracking and keyboard issues.

anyways money is on your hand, decision is yours, just my 2 cents.

They changed the design for those who went for RMA if I'm not mistaken, not new units.

For keyboard problem, just search keyboard in this thread and you should know the problem.
Ribbon problem is when you slide out the keyboard,the screen goes blank. This is caused by a short in the ribbon, some people are having difficulty to RMA for this.

Device that matches X1? Maybe Touch Pro, the problem is just the screen resolution. TP2 is way more expensive.

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Added on December 15, 2009, 5:25 pm

Almost everybody has the crack and keyboard problem. Ribbon problem is quite new and is affecting more people.

I personally have the keyboard and crack problem. My crack problem appeared much later than others, but keyboard problem much earlier.

I didn't fix it, using on-screen keyboard now

For the ribbon, they are original sets but they're overseas so I'm not sure which company.

i am keyboard + ribbon problem user! yeay!

fix by ourselve? huhu

i oso got keyboard and little crack on casing.

going take my touch pro out and use it for few days while send xperia to warranty.. haiz..

Mine is Singapore set

Case crack: Overseas people successfully claim warranty. In Malaysia, I'm not sure. But one of our forummer was rejected, he lives in Sarawak.

Keyboard: Overseas people also successfully claim warranty. In Malaysia, don't know.

Ribbon: Overseas people having difficulty to claim warranty. In Malaysia, not common yet so I also don't know.

Expect the X2 to cost a bomb for almost the same specs as X1 and TP2.

So yeah... 

And also, considering SE's past performance in QC, I think it's better to get TP2 as people are not getting much complains about quality.

Finally, today after using 1 day after back from RMA, the battery part there crack.. and my Space button not working properly now..

Wah, and you paid for it somemore? Really need to find someone to sue already.
Oh, then get X2 is ok also. But the price...expect it to be somewhere around 2.5k I guess. But please constantly get yourself updated on the forums where X2 users meet, there might be build quality issues that pop out suddenly, just like how it happened to X1. (3 times somemore )

Erm even the X2 doesn't get support from XDA because it's not a HTC phone. X1 is one of those unique phones hahaha