#MULTITOUCH XPERIA X10 UPGRADE#
#MULTITOUCH XPERIA X10 SOFTWARE#

The phone gives you three customisable screens to flick between – not as flexible as HTC’s Sense interface, but nice enough.

#MULTITOUCH XPERIA X10 UPGRADE#

Internet browsing is a joy on the big screen, even if the lack of multitouch support is a shame (it should be coming later this year when the phone gets and upgrade to the operating system, as we discuss below).The work Sony Ericsson have done customising Android with their UX interface is significant – you probably wouldn’t know it was an Android phone until you slid the familiar notification or menu bars up or down, at which point you a more standard Android appearance is revealed. And the camera, complete with LED flash, offers among the best picture quality you’ll get from a cameraphone right now, with only a slightly longer delay than you might expect between clicking and taking losing it a few points. We were extremely impressed recently with the quality of the screen on the HTC Desire, probably the X10’s closest current Android rival, and it’s a tough one to call between the two – so tough, in fact, that we’re going to wimp out and ask if we can just have both. The design is sleek and attractive – and while not the most compact phone in its class, it sits in the hand nicely.The screen really is excellent – something you’d be happy to watch lengthy videos on. The answer is, somewhat predictably, ‘yes and no’.The good things first: with a 1GHz Snapdragon processor under the hood, an 8 megapixel camera and a gorgeous 4inch screen, it’s got the specs to take on the best. However, the handset is powered by the Android 1.6 version of the OS (which will be upgraded to newer flavors in the near future, the handset vendor announced) and won't sport multi-touch either, while other mobile phones do, making users think twice before going for an X10.The Sony Ericsson Xperia X10: a few too many frustrating flaws to be properly excellent

When unveiled officially late last year, the Sony Ericsson X10 seemed as one of the most appealing Android phones to arrive on the market, that's for sure, especially with that UX its maker has thrown into the mix. Of course, one can easily live without multi-touch, but considering that other devices come with the feature and that users are attracted by it a lot, Sony Ericsson's Android phone will certainly seem less appealing than before.

#MULTITOUCH XPERIA X10 SOFTWARE#

Unfortunately, no specific details on why the Sony Ericsson X10 does not support multi-touch are offered, and even if future software updates might bring the functionality along, the lack of hardware capabilities for that will make it useless. zooming, which has been requested frequently on this blog, such has the solution demoed on X10 mini at and similar,” Rikard Skogberg, Sony Ericsson product manager states in a recent blog post.

Despite this, for future updates of X10 we are of course working on other solutions for e.g. As said earlier there’s no multitouch in X10 – and I also can confirm that it’s not only related to SW but also to HW. “I don’t have any technical details around the screen to share, sorry! – However I have now gotten confirmation on the question of multi touch. The device does not come with multi-touch features, something that is reportedly connected both to the software and to the hardware it includes, and it seems that future updates might not bring this on the table either, but that the company is working on offering other solutions to users. Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has pushed its first handset powered by Google's Android OS, the X10, to the market only recently and now we learn that some disturbing news emerged for enthusiasts.

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