Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X10 lacks hardware support for multi-touch operation

Sony Ericsson’s the Xperia X10 Android-based touchscreen smartphone, that is due to go on sale next month through Vodafone, Virgin Media and Orange, lacks hardware support for multi-touch operation, dashing hopes that the feature's absence might be remedied by a firmware update.

The X10 sports a 4in, 480 x 854 touchscreen and runs Android 1.6.

Unlike many other touchscreen devices, the Xperia X10 won't do multi-touch; however it has been assumed that this was a result of the phone's software.

Updating the X10's OS to a version with full multi-touch support , Android 2.0 or up, basically, will not add the feature to the handset.

Sony Ericsson staffer Rikard Skogberg unveiled that some multi-touch features may be added to the handset. "For future updates of X10 we are of course working on other solutions for e.g. zooming."