I wasn't a big fan of yours during past few years, but since I had a chance to play with Xperia Arc this has changed considerably. A good design connected with pretty neat UI and Android platform, nice. I toyed around with buying Arc because my old phone needed a replacement. And finally I got an Xperia Neo, slightly smaller but bulkier and cheaper borther of Arc. Great phone that is, however, after some more playing, I have to express my surprise on how oddly you dealt with parts of your Android customization. In general, you should not make things worse or less functional than they are, please always leave an option to turn features on or off if we want them.

This especially means SMS app, I can understand you made it extremely light by stripping contact icons and simplifying conversation look. But you should leave configuration options in place, like, limit of messages per thread. Nowhere to be seen in your app...
Dialer - simple and neat, but I really like it when I start typing...

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