When you look at the smartphones Sony Ericsson is about to offer the mobile world you’ll probably notice their upcoming handsets all have a couple of things in common, being all will have tight integration with social networking and the users contacts list and they are all touch sensitive.

According to the article over on star-techcentral, Sony Ericsson has introduced no less than 5 touch screen handsets which either run the Android platform or Symbian OS, the 3 Xperia models the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, X10 Mini, and X10 Pro, and the Vivaz models the Sony Ericsson Vivaz and Vivaz Pro.

All of the above Sony Ericsson smartphones pack integrated social networking for such favourite communities as Twitter, Facebook and even YouTube so the user can stay in contact with their online friends.

The head of customer portfolio management at Sony Ericsson in Asia, Maurice Van Tholen says that these new smartphone are a big departure from the more angular designs of old and feature Sony Ericsson’s ‘human curvature’ philosophy of curved surfaces which fit better in the hand.