{"id":490908,"date":"2010-03-30T19:49:22","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T23:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/androidandme.com\/?p=16981"},"modified":"2010-03-30T19:49:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T23:49:22","slug":"x10-gives-multitouch-fans-the-finger-2-not-supported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/490908","title":{"rendered":"X10 gives multitouch fans the finger, 2 not supported"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am having a hard time believing this, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-consumer-research-program-launches-2979487\/\">SlashGear<\/a> is reporting that the Xperia X10 will never support multitouch. We already expected the device to ship with Android 1.6, but Sony Ericsson is planning to update the firmware to Android 2.1 (which includes the multitouch APIs). &#8216;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, even Android 2.1 will not add multitouch functionality to the X10. It appears the X10 suffers from a hardware limitation and will only allow input from a single finger.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t have any technical details around the screen to share, sorry! \u2013  However I have now gotten confirmation on the question of multi touch.  As said earlier there\u2019s no multitouch in X10 \u2013 and I also can confirm  that it\u2019s not only related to SW but also to HW. Despite this, for  future updates of X10 we are of course working on other solutions for  e.g. zooming, which has been requested frequently on this blog, such has  the solution demoed on X10 mini.&#8221;<cite>Rikard Skogberg<small>Sony Ericsson<\/small><\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Instead of the intuitive pinch zoom we have come to expect in the Browser, Gallery, and Maps, Sony Ericsson has created their own zoom shortcuts. Users can long press a zoom area and then slide their finger up and down to zoom. A quick demonstration of this zoom method was captured on video for all to see (about 1:15 mark).<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"520\" height=\"317\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Zc3f3twWgzo&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Zc3f3twWgzo&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"520\" height=\"317\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It is nice to see Sony Ericsson implement new zoom solutions, but we are  still a little saddened by this news. If a U.S. carrier ever decides to  pick this phone up, the lack of multitouch will really hurt the X10  reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Is multitouch support really that important to everyone? 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We already expected the device to ship with Android 1.6, but Sony Ericsson is planning to update the firmware to Android 2.1 (which includes the multitouch APIs). &#8216; Unfortunately, even Android 2.1 will not add [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}