Xperia X1 – is the touch UI actually not great….?

Ben Robinson

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• Eltawil

  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.

• Eltawil

  *totally disappointed. (speeling eroor

• saintjak

  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?

• Mit

  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.

• Zen

  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.

• hobo

  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.