It’s been a while since Sony Ericsson released Android 2.3.3 for the Xperia X10 and for a while there, we thought we’d never see it. In the UK the Android update has been rolled out to generic unbranded handsets and network branded handsets, except for O2 branded ones. O2 were always quite slow with the uptake of the Xperia X10 updates but, none the less they have confirmed that their Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 owners will be getting Android 2.3.3, aka Gingerbread on their devices.

OK, so the Xperia X10 may be old news now and will not have any further Android updates above 2.3.3. However, Rogers have the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 on a rather tempting price plan.

Rogers are offering the Xperia X10 for $25.50 a month when taking out a twelve month contract with them. Minimum pricing is $32.35 a month. To put that in perspective, the Xperia Arc is available on a one year contract but, the actual handset will cost $499.99 and $449.99 if you go with a two year contract.

This week sees the end of the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play’s exclusivity on Minecraft: Pocket Edition. The game will be headed to other Android powered devices from September 29th. The game was made available to the Xperia Play back in August and after just over 6 weeks of only being available to Xperia Play owners, the game will be available to other Android devices, such as the Xperia Arc with touch screen controls.

XDA-Developers member the_laser has released a method to unlock the bootloader on both the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 and the Xperia X8 handsets. The same method can be used to unlock the bootloaders on all the 2010 released models of mobiles from Sony Ericsson.

Another classic game has been rejigged and revitalized to work alongside the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play’s control system.

This time round we’re seeing retro puzzle platformer Lode Runner being updated by Tozai Games and it is due to hit the Android Market in the coming months with Sony Ericsson announcing that it is due for release from November of this year.

According to a blog post over at Vodafone Australia, the company will begin testing Android 2.3 on the Xperia X10 Mini Pro in around 6 weeks time.

The blog post highlights questions about Android updates that they’ve been receiving regarding when updates will be released, what stage the updates are at and indicates what version of Android the various handsets are currently running and what the next update will be.