There’s a bit of good news for owners of Sony Ericsson’s massive original Xperia X10 Android phone today – the company is in the final stages of testing an update that will enable “pinch to zoom” multitouch style controls on the massive handset.
Here’s how and why they did it:
…because of the huge reaction to this and the real desire for multi touch expressed by you the users, there has been lots of investigations going on and I now have some good news to disclose. We aim to enable multi touch (pinch zoom) in an over-the-air update for the X10. The timing for this update is still a bit work in progress but it will for most markets be during Q1 next year.
What has happened is that some brilliant engineers actually was able to change the driver and firmware for the touch digitizer to make some multi touch gestures work. We are still working on perfecting the user experience and I will keep you updated as work progresses.
The Sony Ericsson team goes on to say that it won’t be a perfect implementation, but ought to get the job done.
Which will be GREAT NEWS for everyone using one of these big old beasts, eh?
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Niels Christiansen
/ November 17, 2010“Which will be GREAT NEWS for everyone using one of these big old beasts, eh?”
Hmmm, I mostly use my X10i with one hand, so it’s hardly a unmissable feature.
As long as it’s not required to use pinch-zoom, I’m fine. :-)
Eric Radford
/ January 25, 2011Please let the multi touch be music possible, I play the drums and guitar on my X10