Multi-Touch Update

							Multi-Touch Update


        Drewsome89 1 posts since
Nov 13, 2009 I heard that the Droid is soon due for an update that will enable multi-touch. Is anyone able to verify
this? Tags: touchscreen, droid, pinch, multi_touch, zoom


         geoffreyf 4,819 posts since
Jun 5, 2006 1. Re: Multi-Touch Update Nov 13, 2009 10:20 PM

This is a rumor. If true ... I'm not sure what "Enabling Multi-touch" really would be. it would
probably some unique take on the concept.



Generally this forum does not verify things until they are surely happening on a particular
date and then, it's announced about a week before that.



Other forums often announce this sort of thing early but unofficially and sometimes they are
wrong, but often they are spot on. Speculating is part of the fun.



         ronthomas 7 posts since
Nov 11, 2009 2. Re: Multi-Touch Update Nov 13, 2009 10:53 PM

   in response to: geoffreyf The Droid does and can support Multi-Touch (like in the PicSay ap and on a video of the
Europe version). I think that this is needed in the email app to be able to enlarge the screen so that the text can be
read. Way too small and may be the deal breaker to return the Droid and get a Tour in 30 days.


         geoffreyf 4,819 posts since
Jun 5, 2006 3. Re: Multi-Touch Update Nov 14, 2009 7:50 AM

   in response to: ronthomas
There are really two issues here. The first is the ability to zoom in all apps. I like the
zoom in the browser and I'd like it in the email and messaging. When I first saw multi-
touch zooming, it was cute and interesting but I fell out of love with it and I like the zooming
capability in the browser better. That's just me. There does need to be zooming in email
and all other places, that i do agree. It's interesting because the blackberry storm had the
same problem, I could not zoom in their email either.




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The BB Storm had multi-touch for selecting multiple items and editing text. It didn't have
multi-touch zooming. So my point is ... we don't know what the remedy for the zooming and
editing short comings will be in future releases. We will have to wait and see.



         davidevank 9 posts since
Nov 11, 2009 4. Re: Multi-Touch Update Nov 27, 2009 5:57 PM

The temporary, admittedly workaround-until-they-fix-the-limitation solution I found with
the Droid (as someone who would like to still be able to see when I get old) is not use tiny
font-ed applications for anything but use the web browser and create bookmarks to mobile
versions of gmail, yahoo mail, OWA, New York Times, CNN, etc. Many of these native
DROID apps are just adware front ends for these, anyway. Only a few are critical, such as
the Documents to Go software for editing MS Doc files, and this app does support zooming.
  I also found that reseting the Browser font size to large in settings has some effect on
increasing font sizes in some apps, such as the Gmail native email client.



         ronthomas 7 posts since
Nov 11, 2009 5. Re: Multi-Touch Update Nov 27, 2009 7:07 PM

   in response to: davidevank Thank you very much for this approach. My company just switched to an Exchange
Server and the OWA app is not bad. At least I can go there to read emails if I have to. Still would like the zoom
feature added to all apps. Appreciate the help.


         dylanmj 5 posts since
Nov 27, 2009 6. Re: Multi-Touch Update Nov 27, 2009 9:56 PM
There is an app that allows you to pinch to zoom photos. By that logic, I hope that there is a browser addition/app
that integrates that capacity!


         geoffreyf 4,819 posts since
Jun 5, 2006 7. Re: Multi-Touch Update Nov 27, 2009 10:05 PM

   in response to: dylanmj
Having used iPhone and Storm ... I sincerely hope that multi-touch is not wasted on zoom.
 It's hard to do with two hands and actually gives nothing functionally that isn't there on the
Droid right now. You can zoom and you can slide the view around to see it.




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The storm used its multi touch capability more effectively (and about 8 months after its
launch). They used it for editing and for selecting multiple items in a list. Much more
effective.



The point here is that there are at least two ways to exploit multi-touch hardware. For all
any of us know, there could be a third defined by Google. Don't anticipate any particular
solution but I would hope that it would not be a clone of earlier ones but something really
interesting and, at least arguably, better. That seems to be what Google is about anyway.



I say, expect the unexpected.



         davidevank 9 posts since
Nov 11, 2009 8. Re: Multi-Touch Update Nov 27, 2009 10:19 PM

  in response to: geoffreyf
I grok google as a fellow visionary but in the meantime I literally

can't see where I'm going un hes



         Thoraldus 106 posts since
Nov 9, 2009 9. Re: Multi-Touch Update Nov 28, 2009 3:44 AM

Just downloaded the latest version of the Dolphin browser from Android Market. It supports
user customizable gesture control as well as multi-touch (pinch) zooming & a bunch of other
useful features. This app just made my Droid a LOT more friendly.



Rick



Edit: Oh yeah, you can also set the user agent to desktop to keep those pesky WAP pages
at bay.




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