Just when you think may be they are done with the mini's and it was not well received by many last year due to its small form factor, SE proves us wrong. New mini's have been introduced,
although this time they've refrained from using the flagship phones name also in it (X10 mini / X10 mini pro) this time its just mini and mini pro and no sign of Arc in it. Sony Ericsson jump started with Gingerbread for all the phones announced this year and mini's are also getting the same treat, either way theres really not that much difference compared to the previous twin other than better hardware which is usually expected of something that comes a year late.
which posses a question does it mean previous mini's will be stuck in 2.1 forever o_O they made a small announcement in their blog recently saying other than X10 others (X10 mini, X10 mini pro and X8) will not be getting anymore updates. However, at that point the new mini's were not introduced therefore there is still some hope they'll make use of the new UI been developed for the new minis will be passed down to older minis like they did for X10.
at the recent Google I/O they also went on to be partners to follow Google's Android update policy which says updates will be released for 18 months after the a phone is released if hardware supports. Which means ideally they should but of course as always this is something they signed up recently and one can look at it and say plans have already been finalized.
right now only thing we can do is ask to them to consider and not abandon bunch of mini holders and move on, if you're wondering what can you do about this feel free to visit their announcement regarding X10 Gingerbread update and write in the comments section or post something on SE facebook discussions board and let them know about frustrated customers.
also if you're one of those people who have no faith in SE for updates you can always visit xda-developers for awesome unofficial updates to jump 2.3 (Gingerbread), below are two links to most popular updates.
