Comments on: Android 1.6, Not Xperia X10, Limited To 65k Colors

By: Jad

Jad — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 08:55:03 +0000

now where is the 16m update?

By: Muddy

Muddy — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:55:16 +0000

@marc
1. The X10 does have a flash/video light.
2. It’s launching with 1.6 in Feb, but there’ll be an update to 2.0. I’d rather wait and have the most finished release.
3. Even though it doesn’t say it in the specs, who would make a phone now days without an ambient light sensor?
4. Voice recognition will likely be added with éclair.
5. Granted, it seems now that the video rez is lower, but we don’t know if those are the final specs. It does after all have 3mp more than the droid.
6. No physical keyboard being a con is completely subjective. Some people hate keyboards.
7. We don’t even know the final price, yet, and the price of the droid is HEAVILY subsidized through Verizon. If the X10 has a carrier in the US, it won’t cost $800.

By: marc

marc — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:43:20 +0000

X10 has many shortcomings compared to Droid
1)No Flash,so no camera/video capture at night
2)Android 1.6 vs Droid has Android 2.0
3)No Ambient Light sensor( Display brightness automatically adjusts as per the outside light – dark vs bright )
4)No Voice activated google maps navigation
5)Video capture for X10 is at lower resolution then Droid
6)Biggest of all: No physical keypad
7)Price for X10 is more then four times of Droid

By: karun

karun — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:31:28 +0000

XPERIA X10 is expected to be launched on Feb 10th 2010.

By: Hetal Patel

Hetal Patel — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:03:35 +0000

Errata

Sorry it was Google, Motorola and Verizon

By: Hetal Patel

Hetal Patel — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:03:10 +0000

Android 2.0 was Designed by Google, Samsung and Verizon Engineers from 1.5 Forked Source Code and its not Released on Open Source Repository so Sony can not use it Right now.

But due to GPL Licensing they have to Release in Mean while. In Open Source is somebody Altered the Source Code they have to Release it when they Actually Start Using / Selling it. So be Patient once its Open Source from Private Groups Repository every Hardware Manufacturer can use it.

By: bp

bp — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:20:06 +0000

Why dont these guys plan properly? Whats the point to release the phone with v1.6 when v2.0 is already out! that too the release is still 2-3months away! by that time android would go up to v3.0!
It is a phone with wrong plans in terms of OS, wrong plan in terms of release. they should have launched this for christmas with android v2.0. They are always late!!

By: Cthulhu

Cthulhu — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:13:19 +0000

@513: The gorgeous AMOLED screen in Samsung Galaxy supports 16M colors, but sadly Android 1.5/6 does not. Hence Galaxy users cannot yet fully enjoy the full capabilities of their hardware.
Shame on Samsung for not even releasing a 1.6 firmware for it yet, either.

By: stormrider81

stormrider81 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:57:48 +0000

dont care when eclair comes to the phone fix the battery life problem and i’ll be happy…last i heard its worse than the g1 in that category

By: ari-free

ari-free — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:00:03 +0000

well there are a lot of apps that need to be updated for 2.0. In this case I’m sure Sony wants the UI to be redesigned for 16M colors.

By: chaos

chaos — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:13:27 +0000

From what i see, Media- and Timescape appear to be apps. I am not familiar with how apps work across versions of Android but maybe we can update to 2.0 and wait for the UI to catch up?

By: ari-free

ari-free — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:40:12 +0000

Sony spent all this time developing a completely new UI for the previous android version…of course it will take time for it to work with android 2.0. No need for conspiracy theories.

By: hEh

hEh — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:53:45 +0000

this fucking phone is dead before launch. wont even consider it until it gets 2.0 (at which point ill JUMP on it)

By: dannydarko

dannydarko — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:25:59 +0000

I think that everyone is jumping the gun a little . 2.0 came out officially what like a week ago.It was a rushed release to boot. I heard through my grapevine which has always been on point that we will have an update by the end of 09 if not the first week in 10 . We all want the beast phone to smash on all the other plastic OS’s out there it just takes time . I have been on team Android since day one and i will continue you roll with the BOT till the wheels fall off!!!!

By: Ian

Ian — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:19:41 +0000

Would one be able to wipe this phone and put just the vanilla Google OS in?