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 Sony Ericsson XPERIA™ X10, SE 1st Andriod Phone!!!

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davidmak
post Mar 29 2010, 11:00 AM

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QUOTE(hsyong @ Mar 29 2010, 10:51 AM)
Three types of Capacitive screen:
1. Single touch
2. Dual touch (detects up to 2 finger press at the same time)
3. Multi touch (detects up to 10 finger press at the same time)

I hope X10 uses at least Dual Touch ... as Multi Touch has been ruled out by official SE info (in the official SE blog) ... I think only iPhone has full Multi Touch screen(I think Nexus One and other HTC models use Dual Touch screen)

Yes, Android 2.x supports multitouch but X10 started development long time ago with Android 1.6 (no multitouch)... and SE has ruled out multitouch support in SE HARDWARE .. but not so clear about Dual Touch yet.......... I think it will be more clear in a day or two.
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I understand what you are trying to point out. Multi-touch capability or the ability to distinguish more than one point on a capacitive touch screen need not to be hardware supported. It can be a software thing too. Synaptics has recently release some sort of coding that enables 'multi-touch' functionality to older touchpads that does not have that function earlier. It is a software implementation.

Lets hope SE doesn't do this because it may take significant processing resources. But if SE were to anticipate far enough or serious to make this X10 a successful product, it must see past Android v1.6. So it is likely a multi-touch capable screen. The same way I feel that screen is capable of 16m colors but is limited to 65k colors due to Android v1.6.

If it doesn't, that's it man. Abandoning your customers high and dry with a huge pricing product is one way of ensuring nail meet coffin scenario. Anyone remember UIQ products?


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post Mar 29 2010, 01:58 PM

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Guys, looks like I'm wrong and we're all gonna be disappointed.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/28/xperia-...rdware-related/
http://blogs.sonyericsson.com/products/201.../#comment-35596

THERE IS NO MULTI-TOUCH. NOT EVEN IN THE HARDWARE.

Gosh, how could SE be so short-sighted. It was announced in their official company blog. Sorry guys...
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post Mar 29 2010, 04:27 PM

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QUOTE(kazama @ Mar 29 2010, 04:22 PM)
actually multitouch will be significant in gaming .. while dual touch is good enough for fast typing.. u can compared nexus one gaming experience with iphone 3gs.. u can find 3gs is lot better. other than gaming, multi touch is not that important..

i still believe x10 does support dual touch or 'multi touch' like other android phone
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I think more than one point is considered multi-touch. But the blog made it pretty clear. Its a hardware thing and it meant nothing more than one point touch. All those disappointments raised by readers there went unanswered. If this is true, SE would have quickly clarified it but it has done nothing so far. Guess thats it.

Added on March 29, 2010, 4:29 pm
QUOTE(changfui @ Mar 29 2010, 04:18 PM)
just wondering y is multitouch so important? other than improving browing experience slightly..
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Its pretty important for people who text a lot. Typically you would use two fingers to type on the QWERTY onscreen keyboard. When you type fast enough, there will be one point where two fingers touches the screen. If the interface cannot support multi-touch, one of the keys will be missed. As a result, you get all sorts of spelling and typo errors which is annoying.

Repeat this a few times and you will give up.

This post has been edited by davidmak: Mar 29 2010, 04:29 PM
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post Mar 29 2010, 05:27 PM

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Come to think of it... if this phone REALLY cannot support more than one point touch. Then no hope for gaming already. So many games require two finger to control.

There's already a landslide rage over that those forums due to this announcement. They better do something.
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post Apr 17 2010, 07:40 PM

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QUOTE(aruja_69 @ Apr 17 2010, 09:45 AM)
What? September 2010?
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Dang... thats a long shot. By then what do we have? Galaxy S, iPhone, heck maybe a new Android version? rolleyes.gif
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