Sony Ericsson’s XPERIA X1 made a discrete appearance at CeBIT today, but it’s accompanying minder was tight-lipped on the suspected shipping delay. All he would say is that “it’s still developing” and that they couldn’t comment on any rumors. As such, we’ll have to make do with these hands-on images of the handset from the show floor.

Again, the XPERIA’s killer feature might just be that glorious screen (though the GPS, HSDPA and WiFi don’t hurt either); Facebook’s mobile app looks particularly good at that resolution, it’s just a shame that the multi-panel interface Sony Ericsson developed only extended to the main menu, and after that you’re stuck with dull old Windows Mobile 6.1.

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