As we prepare for the release of the Sony Ericsson XPERIA X10 many questions are lurking on the minds of fellow Android fanatics. Today we have confirmed many rumors and speculations regarding the X10 so let’s get straight to nuts and bolts of our findings. The XPERIA X10 is running Android 1.6 Donut which means OpenGL ES 1.1 APIs (native and Java). The X10 hardware (GPU) supports OpenGL ES 2.0, but the limiting factor is the version of Android running on the device. The X10 SEMC applications such as Timescape rely on a UI framework which is Qualcomm proprietary and indirectly use OpenGL ES 2.0 hardware and functionality. The bottom line is that with the X10 running Android 1.06, OpenGL ES 2.0 APIs are not accessible to all developers despite the hardware being there.
[via SE Blog]
