Services offered on the X10 mini & pro versions differ slightly from X10, and they are:
• Status updates from friends
• Friend’s photo
• Inbox Message
• Friend Requests
• Tweets from people user are following
• Tweet replies
• Direct message
SMS/MMS
• Incoming SMS and MMS messages
Phone calls
• Missed phone calls
Unfortunately there won’t be any multi touch available on any one of these devices. According to an official SE spokesperson:
“It is correct that the X10 will not support multi-touch. However with the X10’s signature applications, the X10 offers an excellent user experience.”
I’m assuming he’s talking about the Timescape app, which is pretty cool actually.
The fact is the underlying hardware on the devices does NOT support multi touch, so even a software hack would not work. So what you have is a phone whose hardware does NOT support multitouch, but whose OS does. I’m thinking loyal consumers might want to buy the upgraded OS devices regardless; for them multitouch might be an added bonus, but not essential.
I was kind of hoping that Sony Ericsson would have the good sense to leapfrog Android 2.1 & ship devices with the rumoured Froyo OS. Seems like they think that consumers will buy anything they put on the shelves.