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I've been reading in reviews, forums, and sites - that talk about xperia panels - their views on the Fish Panel. People have called it from a completely useless application to a cool fish clock...
However, according to a video (that came out 5 months ago)... the fish panel is more than what people are taking it to be.
This panel is a device indicator where each fish stands for something. So far we've only seen three fishes, but they might add more before the lauch...
One fish is the battery indicator - Goes red if your battery is low.
Another fish is a volume indicator.
And the third one indicates calls - i.e. if you have missed calls.
Watch the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9C3zUJIi1k
(Fish panel is at the end)
Best Regards.
That sounds very interesting I will watch it, when getting my X1. Launch time in Germany is 30.09., then I hope to get it in the first week of October
Unfortunately for me, being in Pakistan, i don't know how soon i can get it. My brother has an official trip to Dubai for a training around the 15th of October... so will most likely have to rely on him to get it for me from Expansys in Dubai... though i'm going to try and see if i can get it delivered here earlier.
Well so far i've seen only 3 fishes at the same time on the videos, but each one is customizable, they can show other stuff like missed messages or wi-fi and so on.
Would make a nice screen saver. Though Xperia Home panel (the one with the big clock or the two clocks and icons) and the fishes are pretty much the same.
You could say that the fish panel is a mini & fun version of the Xperia panel. Mini 'cos it has only the clock and a couple of indicators (in terms of fish)
can this fish panel work on the omina i900. if it can plz i want that on my phone
panels only work using the panel launcher
think they made it work for blackstone but then it got the
same res you can read up on it in blackstones forum
Hi,
Here are a couple of new Xperia videos...
Old Links
Sony xperia - First Look Preview (Small one, but he loads a panel and it instantly shows... also switching panel mode is really fast too...!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sus2l7mq6o
Xperia X1 Google Maps and GPS Possibilities
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox9GB88cMb8
X1 Panels (Tad bit slow in going from landscape to portrait mode, but just a tad bit - for Panels only [i.e. he switches when showing all panels, their animation has a very slight lag, but overall extremely fast!])
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R49vsOULU8
Xperia X1 Camera UI (Someone should have told him to stand somewhere not too bright - but hey, he took the effort in making these videos, so Bravo!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3NTogmVuzY
Xperia X1 Illumination possibilities (better than just leaving ur phone to vibrate)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQXSM8S1ryw
Xperia X1 Musicplayer (Loving it! Though its too bright again in this one, but if you look close, you can see animating music symbols on the background of the music player... looks cool)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1RneuMwVcM
Xperia X1 Internet Browsing (Caution! Switching to landscape in this one - and it is fast!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndMT7P8iR_U
(I for one will most likely be using Opera instead of IE...
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(These sets of vids are the first real in-depth [well somewhat] videos presented by Sony Ericsson itself. Switching from portrait to landscape is fast... one thing to note however is the panel load time for some panels - which can take second or two to load up and refresh - however not a huge concern, especially when my iPhon takes a couple of seconds to load some of its basic stuff especially the Settings page!)
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 A-GPS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avV7sV47H7k
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 fish panel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1dL7tgoLAg
Sony Ericsson XPERIA X1 video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73y04BOsQsY
Best Regards.
Cheers! Just making my way through them now, the first one certainly makes the UI look pretty snappy.
EDIT: Why did they have to waste time browsing with PIE at all? Loved the speed of the UI orientation switching there though.
The panels video was OK, the speed and choppiness of the animation when it switches is a bit off-putting, but I hope you can turn that off and just have it switch without pointless eye-candy.
Music player looks nice, finger-friendly which is super important (although it eventually dumps you into WMP, which is less finger-friendly - wish they had their own player too, like the Touch Pro - wonder if a registry entry can have it point to Coreplayer or something else). Hope you can just have a panel that goes straight to the music player though, without needing to select it from the list. No worries though - I expect custom panels will come pretty fast once this gets out there.
Really liking the look of the camera app UI. The Touch Pro camera and UI are both rather rubbish, it would be nice to get a better camera (thing I miss the most from my N82).
GPS performance looks acceptable, although no idea whether that it a cold lock or not.
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GPS performance looks acceptable, although no idea whether that it a cold lock or not.
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Did he have a lock at all? Beeline GPS showed nothing. I think that was just the quick google maps "my location", but he had no cell signal either. Maybe beeline was just not configured correctly to use the GPS.
NZtechfreak said:
Why did they have to waste time browsing with PIE at all? Loved the speed of the UI orientation switching there though.
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Yep... loved the orientation switching. I wish microsoft would release a new version of IE for windows mobile soon... Thankfully we have opera in this...
Yeah, GPS went active in Google Maps at the end.
New vids added to the list...
My god... the way he was hitting the screen, i hate that Magnus guy
Still seems laggy when loading the panels, though.
Insaneboy said:
My god... the way he was hitting the screen, i hate that Magnus guy
Still seems laggy when loading the panels, though.
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Most of the panels load quick (the panel goes up pretty quick, but some of the quick-launch/shortcuts come up delayed) except the media player one, but not that slow, if you ask me.
And yeah... i really hate that Magnus guy too. Why can't SE find a decent guy who knows how to present something in a good manner. (on the contrary, his fish panel one was pretty amusing - especially the way he was hitting the screen )
Never had a touch screen device before (except a Palm), but in my understanding you should be more careful with the screen
When he presses the panels button, it takes a while for the panels to appear...
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Never had a touch screen device before (except a Palm), but in my understanding you should be more careful with the screen
When he presses the panels button, it takes a while for the panels to appear...
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My iPhone's screen got crushed - kind of like a windscreen when you take a baseball bat to it - in an accident that i had 3 months back. I got out of the hospital a month later and checked how much it'll cost to get it repaired, and the price in Pakistani Ruppee equals $200! Completely insane!!!
It still worked flawlessly though...
msalmank said:
My iPhone's screen got crushed - kind of like a windscreen when you take a baseball bat to it - in an accident that i had 3 months back. I got out of the hospital a month later and checked how much it'll cost to get it repaired, and the price in Pakistani Ruppee equals $200! Completely insane!!!
It still worked flawlessly though...
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Well heard two things:
that the iphone has bulletproof glass
and second, that a lot of people like you have trouble with getting the screen repaired.
X1 G1 video
badaas said:
X1 G1 video
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"Cannot play media. Sorry, this media is not available in your territory."
It says on the page; Spencer Kelly tries out the new Google Android mobile, sizes up the Sony-Ericsson Xperia X1 smartphone running on Windows, and the new LG Renoir. Anyone who has seen it, can you tell how exactly do they size it up against Xperia? (but only if its anything other than 'Xperia has Windows at its base' with a smirk on their faces)
To me the G1 lacks a lot of things, but most of all, it looks UgLy! (well ok, not that ugly, but still BLEH!)
It lacks a couple of very important features, but for me the most important being Microsoft Exchange Support, and an office suite fully compatible with Office 2007.
Insaneboy said:
Well heard two things:
that the iphone has bulletproof glass
and second, that a lot of people like you have trouble with getting the screen repaired.
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The screen is definitely better than one would expect it to be. I dropped it a couple of times without anything happening to it - the accident had to affect the screen 'cos i literally flew into the air after impact and fell on the same side where i had the mobile in my pocket... OUCH!
There's no trouble getting the screen repaired... i'll just have to put down $150-200 for it...
Funny thing is that even with the broken screen, i can sell it off for a decent price. (but am thinking of keeping it as an iPod touch instead after getting the screen repaired - am waiting for the screen price to drop down a little - as there are some really cool games on it... )
Does any one know of any good games for the X1?
i love my x1 lol but i wish i could do more on it but i cant find any food games really - does any one know like one offical site for all the games or just any really cool stuff?
I found the Astraware games that came installed on it were very good so I have bought Astraware Casino, Bejeweled 2 and Board Games pack.
They are all very polished and work well with the X1 - trial versions available.
I've installed a couple of old wm5 games on my X1 and the results aren't quite satisfiable. since the screen reso is larger, the game is already smaller:
bookworm deluxe, syberia2, and heroes have only filled up 3/4s of the screen vertical wise. And what's more frustrating is that the menu couldn't be seen unless you already know where it was in the first place.
I also tried installing FpseCE to try playing PSX games on my ATI integrated X1 but the result are the very same on an ordinary pda phone. it simply sucks. I mean of course FpseCE is made for CE phones way back world war 2 but let's just hope people develop games for X1 that maximizes it's full potential.
Though the phone is primarily a business phone, but for the heftly price I wish it had almost what we wish on a phone: The music player fails in my opinion, the camera fails too. the speaker for music isn't stereo and the player doesn't come up with an equalizer. I know, I know, it's not a music phone but heck for moment I thought X1 was a Sony Ericsson phone, then it lacks what an SE phone is famous for.
asked before
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=447748
hi guys,
honestly speaking..the games preloaded on xperia make me feel like i am in year 2002 when O2 Xda was around.
in todays world when PC has high def games.. mobile phones like N95 or N82 having 3D games..why cant Xperia have some decent games which can cater to Gaming enthusiasts.
Solitaire, bubble breaker, bejeweled also..these games are very lame for a Gamer like me..even during year 1998 i used to avoid them and play Dave or Wolf 3D..what i like are 3D car racing games or 2D games which are like RPG.
Some type of games i would love to play on Xperia:
Racing games, Sports (Tennis), shooter..or any other BUT the default games.
the optical joystick has a huge huge potential as an input interface for such games.
but are there any games on Xperia?
Buh, don't bother searching for games for at least another six months. None of the cool apps (Genesis/SNES/GBA Emulators, Open Source Games, DosBox, ScummVM) support WQVGA and WVGA resolutions, which is pretty frustrating since my older phones did support most of them but lacked the inputs and processing power of the Xperia.
I hope some developers see the light and will support widescreen resolutions in the near future.
Oh, and you could try WVGA-Fix, it wil blank 1/3 of the X1's screen, giving you a VGA resolution which is better supported. But IMO that is not the 'right' solution.
So far, I found only the two preinstalled Astraware Games (strange, they don't seem to offer them on their site for other WVGA devices like the Touch HD), Quartz2, and Spore Elements to really support the WVGA resolution.
Most other games only use the VGA part, leaving a part of the screen either black or with the previous contents. Only a few games don't run at all or not usable, like most of pdaMill's games (they're currently looking for a solution to that...).
Mort said:
So far, I found only the two preinstalled Astraware Games (strange, they don't seem to offer them on their site for other WVGA devices like the Touch HD), Quartz2, and Spore Elements to really support the WVGA resolution.
Most other games only use the VGA part, leaving a part of the screen either black or with the previous contents. Only a few games don't run at all or not usable, like most of pdaMill's games (they're currently looking for a solution to that...).
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Woo, I just spot the developer of Mort series tools got an X1 too
jackleung said:
Woo, I just spot the developer of Mort series tools got an X1 too
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I'd noticed that too
I just found this list of wvga games
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=462217
BTW is there a way to get out of a game if it is not in full screen and I get stuck? Other than reset by taking off the cover? My fingernails are all gone now from resets and so I'm hoping there is an easier way since the hardware buttons don't have their normal functions while in a game. THANKS!
I'm running a list of games that i have installed and running on my Xperia without problems. There are around 12 Java games that support WVGA and a few native WM games as well... along with those that run in VGA but in full-screen (with part of hte screen black).
To check out the list: http://xperiancer.blogspot.com/2008/12/gaming-on-xperia-part-1.html
I'll be posting part 2 tonight with more games that i found to work on Xperia... only those in WVGA.
also... you guys might wanna try out ScummVM. Not in full WVGA (i.e. runs in VGA) but awesome games compatibility!
tomb raider
actually tomb raider works very well on the x1, ok its not wvga, but its still quite good, and its free...give it a roll...
ruffnexx_uk said:
actually tomb raider works very well on the x1, ok its not wvga, but its still quite good, and its free...give it a roll...
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Tried it already... it does work great, but didn't it show the previous window outside its resolution? (i.e. instead of showing a black screen in the remaining area, it shows the previous screen like file explorer or today screen there)
Tomb Raider worked brilliant on the Wizard so it hardly shows off the X1.
Sadly the "power" of the X1 is not exactly showing itself off when it comes to games. All the emulators suck IMO due to a lack of adequate (or possibly enabled at all?) graphics acceleration.
I mean come on, you should be able to at LEAST emulate a Game Gear at full speed/framerate with full sound. A 486 DX2/66 could do that for crying out loud. If the X1 was THAT slow it wouldn't be able to support video like it does, even if that support still sucks too.
I love my X1, but when it comes to games/emulators or video playback it downright sucks. People claiming it "plays fine" because they get 14fps are insane, fine is full framerate, pathetic is anything lower.
^ Welcome to HTC's latest releases. Though tbh the problem lies with Qualcomm if you've followed the whole saga from the Kaiser's time. There are efforts to develop drivers in this Blackstone thread as the chipsets on HTC Diamond/Raphael/Blackstone/Kovsky are all very similar. Please, please contribute here if you are a developer or have any background in such things:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442712
Alex Atkin UK said:
Tomb Raider worked brilliant on the Wizard so it hardly shows off the X1.
Sadly the "power" of the X1 is not exactly showing itself off when it comes to games. All the emulators suck IMO due to a lack of adequate (or possibly enabled at all?) graphics acceleration.
I mean come on, you should be able to at LEAST emulate a Game Gear at full speed/framerate with full sound. A 486 DX2/66 could do that for crying out loud. If the X1 was THAT slow it wouldn't be able to support video like it does, even if that support still sucks too.
I love my X1, but when it comes to games/emulators or video playback it downright sucks. People claiming it "plays fine" because they get 14fps are insane, fine is full framerate, pathetic is anything lower.
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Though i have been unable to get any Sega or Nintendo emulator to work god... but ScummVM games are working without any glitch (but then my iPhone played those great too)... and then there are other games too that are great at playback and quality.
Tomb Raider probably doesn't speak well for the device, but if you try other games such as Syberia - they work simply awsome! No lag during videos in the game and slowdowns, etc.
I do however agree that the true potential of gaming on Xperia is yet to be discovered.
Yeah I had suspected that was the case when GLBenchmark refuses to run any 3D benchmarks for me, plus the poor results from the people who did get it to work.
Its one of those unfortunate things I only found out about AFTER I bought my X1 and was left wondering if it was true or not, because nobody seems to mention it in the X1 forum.
However, I bought my X1 as a phone, calendar/alarm and web browser when out and about. To be fair, it does all those things pretty well and even plays music at very good quality so I no longer have to take my MP3 player around with me. I was also pleased at the camera quality considering it had already been said its below-par for a Sony Ericcson phone. It works better in low light than my Canon S3 IS so long as I can keep it steady long enough for the slow software to do its stuff.
Keeping on subject though, why do they keep insisting on putting crap digital pads on phones/PDAs? I would be more inclined to play games on it if it had a DS style D-Pad or something. These weird shaped ones just don't work especially as there are never buttons in a good enough place either. I couldn't be bothered playing Tomb Raider on my Wizard because the buttons were too uncomfortable/unreliable to avoid dying.
The irony is Nokia got it right, they were just a little too early and a little too clunky to gain the popularity they needed. But the X1 like many others totally could have delivered, but then of course Sony don't want to be competing with the PSP so limiting the controls and 3D support could very well be deliberate.
ScummVM should be brilliant if supporting the resolution. I have tried it on various portables and never found it worked very well, not always because of slowdown but because there was never enough pixels on the screen to fit everything you need. In general ScummVM games do not push the graphics hard so the X1 should indeed be fine. Its just annoying that I, like many others, read that the X1 had 3D acceleration so were excited at this prospect. Only to be disappointed to find its locked down.
Ah well, Android and Linux in general should change everything, eventually. It puts the power back in the end-users hands where it belongs so that if they fail to deliver drivers some clever open-source hackers will figure it out. Its just a bit pathetic that ATI/AMD are so pro open-source on PC but we get locked out on mobiles presumably because Qualcomm are greedy SOBs.
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Yeah I had suspected that was the case when GLBenchmark refuses to run any 3D benchmarks for me, plus the poor results from the people who did get it to work.
Its one of those unfortunate things I only found out about AFTER I bought my X1 and was left wondering if it was true or not, because nobody seems to mention it in the X1 forum.
However, I bought my X1 as a phone, calendar/alarm and web browser when out and about. To be fair, it does all those things pretty well and even plays music at very good quality so I no longer have to take my MP3 player around with me. I was also pleased at the camera quality considering it had already been said its below-par for a Sony Ericcson phone. It works better in low light than my Canon S3 IS so long as I can keep it steady long enough for the slow software to do its stuff.
Keeping on subject though, why do they keep insisting on putting crap digital pads on phones/PDAs? I would be more inclined to play games on it if it had a DS style D-Pad or something. These weird shaped ones just don't work especially as there are never buttons in a good enough place either. I couldn't be bothered playing Tomb Raider on my Wizard because the buttons were too uncomfortable/unreliable to avoid dying.
The irony is Nokia got it right, they were just a little too early and a little too clunky to gain the popularity they needed. But the X1 like many others totally could have delivered, but then of course Sony don't want to be competing with the PSP so limiting the controls and 3D support could very well be deliberate.
ScummVM should be brilliant if supporting the resolution. I have tried it on various portables and never found it worked very well, not always because of slowdown but because there was never enough pixels on the screen to fit everything you need. In general ScummVM games do not push the graphics hard so the X1 should indeed be fine. Its just annoying that I, like many others, read that the X1 had 3D acceleration so were excited at this prospect. Only to be disappointed to find its locked down.
Ah well, Android and Linux in general should change everything, eventually. It puts the power back in the end-users hands where it belongs so that if they fail to deliver drivers some clever open-source hackers will figure it out. Its just a bit pathetic that ATI/AMD are so pro open-source on PC but we get locked out on mobiles presumably because Qualcomm are greedy SOBs.
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Hmmm... Xperia has a good 3d chip + hardware acceleration, but alas! few games realize the potential yet. Hopefully we'll see more soon.
But is anyone even using the modified 3D accelerated driver on their X1? Is it stable if they are?
I would expect to find it mentioned in the performance thread if it was working.
Really pathetic...
my W800i had tennis, 3D racing, and black hawk down like games and all freely available.
but for Xperia..none of those kinda games
Where can I find Tomb raider?
Is there a nice Columns clone that works with the X1s resolution?
Nocturnal310 said:
Really pathetic...
my W800i had tennis, 3D racing, and black hawk down like games and all freely available.
but for Xperia..none of those kinda games
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Ummm... well don't know about Tennis, but you have GT Racing for Xperia and Snow Rally City Stage 1.1.
Will post info on more games on my blog later tonight.
I love my X1, and I love rubbing it in my friends face who has a iPhone. But I want an app that is something really cool, so that I can really stick it to him!
Tried games, but they all (well most) run at one frame a year!
What I need is something that looks cool, is functional and the iPhone has no hope of doing!
Think Techy cool, we are both in IT. The wireless packet sniffer I had was fairly cool, although wouldn't run in permiscous mode.
Any suggestion?
Fish panel
Yeah, fish panel is okay, is there something else like it with a bit more function though. iPhone has a Koi Pond!
Copy and paste, mms, stereo bluetooth and video recording.
All features the iphone lacks
I know I know, all good features, the fact we can forward a message as well is a good wind up towards my mate. But I'm looking for the "That's so cool!!!" factor.
tell them that u will send something through bluetooth, then watch the tear in there eyes.
ps. i hear there showing iphone os 3.0 today, which will prob solve these probs when it comes out so do it quick
pretty techy cool
i came across an app called "hush sms" for class 0 text messages thats way cool......my mate has an i phone....and i can send him messages that just appear on his screen...with no name or number attched....then when he dismisses them they do not save...simply dissapear.....ive been winding him up for weeks with it....still not told him its me
How but daring him to text after eating some barbecue wings without wiping his hands off. He's screen will look like a crime scene.
Media Xperience Panel is very powerful....
Try also the new Growing Panel. Is a flash panel.
what is cool :
the best 3d games that run on my x1 are:
1 need for speed udercover beautyfull 3d and game play from EA sport
2 boom blox 3D very nice
3 Xtrakt the new se 3D game
4 the thps2 run on x1 but 15-20 fps
best apps are :
the new se flash panel,fish panel,media panel.
i have the Latest touch-it Rom and its rockin.
Multitasking
@ sx1-doc
What is the new flash panel??
(new growing panel??)
remote desktop
I have searched everywhere but cant find flash pannel?
I found it here on the site, but you need a certain flashplayer.
Couldn`t find the link, so I uploaded it: http://gnur.nl/growingpanel.cab
You simply have to slide your Xperia to reveal the keyboard....thats wow enough for me
plus...the resolution (800x480 over 480x320 iphone), the fast cpu, ability to use your x1 in a business environment (enroll into active directory), the fact you dont have to go thru iTunes to process your songs ), the ton of freeware apps you can find for the windows mobile platform, you name it
the new game, xtrakt can cover your need to show off xperia;D
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the new game, xtrakt can cover your need to show off xperia;D
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Hi foxcheng,
Do you have a link to this game?
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the new game, xtrakt can cover your need to show off xperia;D
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where can I buy this?
Good stuff here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3364286&postcount=2
Growing panel needs FlashLite installed first.