pictures as promissed, compared with X1.
NOTE: It's a PROTOTYPE, unit nr.2. So HW and SW will likely change! So discussion about optical joystick, speaker and so on has no meaning right now. It may change or something may be even disabled or even omited (like accelerometer on X1 which beta had)
poetryrocksalot: speakers are right at this moment. But again, it may change.
Batery release - real
Scroll button - it's no scroll button, it's a camera button. Ordinary camera button, very similar to X1
Softkeys difficult to press - yeah, it's a prototype. The left one works fine on my piece, right one doesn't work. But it will change of course ;
About proxymity and others - until official, can't tell here, sorry.
And again - if you think that X2 has ****ty keyboard, then don't even but it. X2 has waaaaaaaaay better keyboard than X1 (i don't have dwarf fingers)