Xperia X10 will get pinch-to-zoom in Q1 2011, with some limitation (video)
There's been a long back-and-forth from Sony Ericsson and the dev community as to whether or not the Xperia X10 was at all capable of multi-touch -- the company stance has been that the hardware just can't do it , but still whispers to the contrary have lingered. Consider those murmurs validated: Sony Ericsson Product Blog has announced that the X10 will, in fact, get multi-touch in the first quarter of next year -- with some caveats. The large asterisk that's destined to clarify the minutiae will tell you that pinch-to-zoom will be enabled for browser and maps, but as the blog post put it, "situations like when the movement of the two fingers cross each other on the X- or Y-axis that could cause strange behavior." Third-party apps should be able to join some functionality, too, with the similar limitations (including when buttons must be pressed simultaneously -- that won't work)
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: birds, engadget, ericsson, Fingers, get-multi-touch, murmurs, pinch zoom, pinchzoom, result, sonyericsson, video, whether-or-not, xperia-x10, zoom
Dell Streak, HTC Surround, white Samsung Fascinate, and Taylor Swift-ified white SE X10 coming to Best Buy exclusively
We've got a little more detail on those four new pre-orderable phones up in Best Buy Mobile's business this week now that the news has gone from leak status to official, and needless to say, the truth is even stranger than fiction. The Dell Streak will be available for the first time in retail stores for $299.99 on contract come October 24, joined by a white version of Verizon's Samsung Fascinate for $149.99 on contract; those two will be followed on November 8 by the HTC Surround for $199
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: bestbuy, dell, entry, Essential, result, samsung, stores, streak, Surround, truth, windows phone 7, wp7, x10, xperia-x10
White Samsung Fascinate and Sony Ericsson X10 joining Dell Streak in Best Buy this month
Let's be real: almost every phone looks better in white . Okay, so that's strictly a matter of personal opinion -- but if you're a white phone kind of person, turn your attention away from the forever-delayed iPhone 4 and toward a couple that are launching shortly thanks to some new details from Best Buy
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: already-knew, attention, dell, entry, ericsson, fascinate, iphone, result, samsung, sony-ericsson, windows phone 7, wp7, x10, xperia-x10
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 for AT&T review
We've already published a pretty exhaustive review of Sony Ericsson's Xperia X10 some five months ago, but it's taken until this month for it to reach AT&T's network and retail chain. A lot's changed in the mobile phone market since then -- the iPhone 4, the EVO 4G, Dell Streak, numerous Verizon Droids, and so on.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: att, does-the-x10, mobile, phone-market, review, sonyericsson, verizon-droids, x10, xperia, xperia-x10
Sony Ericsson Xperia 10 officially debuts on AT&T: $130 on contract
If ever there were a place for using the phrase "it's about time," this would be it. If you'll recall, we heard rumors that Sony Ericsson's Xperia X10 would be headed to AT&T as far back as November of last year , possibly proving just how grueling the certification process is for getting a handset onto Ma Bell's network
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: att, ericsson-xperia, gsm, handset, on sale, onboard-memory, over-at-amazon, smartphone, sonyericsson, x10, xperia, xperia-x10, xperiax10
Sony teases something smarter, our money’s on Xperia
Sony's website is slowly ticking down the hours, minutes and seconds until the company's latest product launch, but like all other Sony teasers in recent memory, there's little real doubt. If references to "X10" peppered through the site's source code left any doubt, this picture should clear it up -- mark our words, that's an Xperia X10 underneath the clock. Apparently the four-inch Android smartphone is finally ready for its US debut, though whether it's "smarter" or no will probably depend on which version of the OS it ships with
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: Clock, finally-ready, latest-product, minutes, recent-memory, result, ships, Teaser, the-four-inch, xperia-x10
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10, Samsung Eternity II hitting AT&T in the coming weeks?
You might remember that we'd said back in April that AT&T would be picking up the Sony Ericsson X10 in the 30th week of the year. Well, turns out we weren't exactly right, but it seems we're going to end up being pretty damn close. We're hearing that AT&T is lining up for a launch some time between the middle of August and the middle of September; smartphone data is required, of course, and it'll cost independent dealers $345 per unit (retail pricing is anyone's guess).
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: entry, ericsson-xperia, eternityii, middle, rumor, samsung, sony, sony-ericsson, sonyericsson, xperia, xperia-x10
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 gets software update (and no, it’s not Eclair)
Sony Ericsson had previously committed to the fourth quarter for an update to Android 2.1 on its X10 , and as far as we know, that date's still holding firm -- in other words, the update that's now rolling out to units around the world is still the same old Donut you're used to.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: engadget-mobile, mobile, performance, result, sony, sony-ericsson, sonyericsson, still-the-same, update, upgrade, x10, xperia-x10, xperiax10
How would you change Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10?
You may not agree with Sony Ericsson's time table, nor their decision on what flavor of Android to use, but let's face it: you were intrigued when SE told you the Xperia X10 would be its first Google-fied smartphone. To date, the X10 has yet to gain the kind of global appreciation shared by the Motorola Droid, Nexus One or iPhone, but that's not to say quite a few of you haven't ended up with one
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: droid, engadget, motorola, product, result, sony, sonyericsson, table, xperia, xperia-x10
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 coming to Rogers on April 15, free Bluetooth headset in tow
So who's the first North American carrier to pick up Sony Ericsson's high-end X10 ? AT&T? T-Mobile?
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: Carrier, entry, ericsson, ericsson-xperia, getting-first, mobile, rogers-wireless, sony, upgrade, x10, xperia-x10, xperiax10