There’s been the prolonged back-and-forth from Sony Ericsson as well as the dev village as to either or not the Xperia X10 was at all capable of multi-touch — a company stance has been that the hardware only can’t do it, though still whispers to the contrary have lingered. Consider those murmurs certified: Sony Ericsson Product Blog has announced that a X10 will, in actuality, get multi-touch in a initial entertain of next year — with some caveats. The large asterisk that’s unfailing to clarify a minutiae will tell you which pinch-to-zoom will be enabled for browser as well as maps, though as the blog post put it, “situations like when a transformation of the two fingers cross any other upon a X- or Y-axis which could means bizarre function.” Third-party apps should be able to stick on some functionality, as well, with the similar stipulations (including when buttons contingency be pulpy concurrently — that won’t work). In a video demonstration after the break, take note how Angry Birds doesn’t quite splash and wizz uniformly. So yeah, it’s not all sunshine, though at least there’s something to look forward to.

Via Engadget