Xperia X1 – is the touch UI actually not great….?
By Ben Robinson on Wednesday, September 17th, 2008 at 2:58 PM PST In Sony Ericsson, The Digital Life, Touch Control
Xperia X1
OK so just throwing this out there … but … is the touch UI of the Xperia actually not very good at all?
I say this based on watching the video that Will posted about the other day – from what I saw, the demonstrator had to catch the screen square-on with his finger, with long presses, to get stuff to happen. And more importantly, there were BIG (seconds) delays whilst stuff was happening.
You see, the thing is, if you hang a graphically-heavy UI off an operating system that is known for lagging anyway, then, aren’t you definitely going to get slow, laggy responsiveness? I had my concerns right from day dot about this device, and what I saw on that video only confirms it.
Don’t get me wrong though, I would LOVE to be proved wrong – but what is it they say – the camera never lies? (80’s pop group Bucks Fizz said “My camera never lies“, but that’s a different story!)
Come on X1, be great, be wonderful!
I, too, couldn’t help but notice that lag, poor responsiveness, and not so impressive (nor creative) UI. If that’s what people will expect at launch day then the X1 might not make any positive impression worldwide. As that designer in the INXPERIA video was drooling over the phone’s physical design, I was about to puke from the UI design.
Was that the final version of the X1 after numerous delays and excuses? In a nutshell, I was totally disappintment.
*totally disappointed. (speeling eroor
heres the thing though. from what he said the 9 panels were working panels so the aplications were already open (9 working at the same time) I suppose its a trade off. there is a slight lag but when the screen appears it is loaded and ready to go. Where as on another device you would selct the program and it would have to load. Same time taken just different ways of getting to your goal?
Dudes! If you are talking about the webcast then they were showing the xperia with the older firmware! Plus it has had a boost of ram since then aswell!
And he did say that he has been using the phone since March.
Well check this recent video and you’ll be pleasantly surprised… still lags a little but it is so much more tolerable, landscape and portrait switching is instant.
http://www.theunwired.net/?item=videoview-hands-on-with-sony-ericsson-s-latest-xperia-x1-built
And as of this video which was about a few hours ago, it’s still in beta, which I think is a good thing, so they know they still have more to fix before they hit release candidate.
Although I admit it was really dumb of them to use an old firmware version for a live webcast to advertise the phone I do believe this was the case.
I think it is the same phone he has been using for 7 months, it may have had one of the earlier firmware updates but not any of the later ones, since he was using it as a real life device, he had loads of stuff on it and the firmware update would lose all the data, it was a silly trade off, I would have used a newer one and just whacked some fake stuff in it for demostration.
I think that model still had the 256MB of RAM rather than the new one with 320/384MB of RAM, the unwired video is far more zipper and still not a final version.
This video was taken on the prototype with slow CPU and mow memory, the phone in the store will have a faster CPU and more Work memory.