Pinch-to-zoom coming soon to the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10

17 November, 2010

Sony Ericsson once said multi-touch isn't ever coming to the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 smartphone but now, under the users and developers community pressure, the company engineers finally found a way to enable pinch zooming on the X10.

Sony Ericsson first said that there were some hardware limitations stopping its team from enabling the multi-touch support on the XPERIA X10 but as it turned out a couple of weeks back, the company didn't give its device the multi-touch blessing just because Sony Ericsson didn't want to.

But now, thanks to the numerous unhappy customers, the company finally decided to start working on enabling the pinch-to-zoom on its Eclair-serving toy. The multi-touch input method will be enabled in the web browser and the Google maps app (hopefully later elsewhere as well) and is coming some time in Q1 2011 via an Over-the-Air software update.

Here is how pinch zooming works on the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 at the moment:

We published our XPERIA X10 Eclair review this week and the lack of multi-touch was among the main gripes we have with the updated smartphone.

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Reader comments

AnonD-2119
20 Feb 2011
f4N

which update are u referring to? as i have tried updating with no luck on Vodacom, using Xperia X10 Vodacom branded on 2.1. I want pinch to zoom. i think i dont know how to use the double tap for zooming works for zooming in but out>?

slopster
17 Dec 2010
3Gx

stuff the mt - i want adobe flash on it so u cam browse the web as it was meant to be and porn lol

sean
16 Dec 2010
nEt

hmmm id like to know why they never started to build this if they knew it was possible? or do you think it is a ploy to keep there flagship phone model always in the playing field with the latest devices, because to be fair the x10 has a hell of a lo...