Verizon's Motorola Droid DOES include MultiTouch and Pinch & Zoom

[Spr0ckEt]

We need to wait for the Milestone to be released in Europe and then get a ROM dump, complete with everything, and attempt to replicate the code into DROID. It will, likely, require root access though.

 

[electro]

Isn't CyanogenMod working on a rom which includes multi-touch? Here is the website: CyanogenMod | Android Community Rom based on Donut tree.. It has a lot of info. I need to work out on my unix/linux!
:lifting:

 

[ociopia]

One can only pray, with deeply bent knees, that if some genius creates a multi-touch pinch&zoom app, that they put it in the app store and it is brilliantly easy to install. Pray. I hack not. Sherry

 

[buzzdar]

i think that is an awesome feature. multi touch.

 

[soba1]

The European Version has it on their browser; for some reason they didn't do it in the US cool vid thanks

 

[nka]

YouTube - Motorola Droid DOES Have Multi-Touch

There have been many news articles and reviews on the Motorola Droid that claim the phone lacks multi-touch and Pinch & Zoom made so popular by the iPhone. Well Rob over @ Phandroid has proved everyone wrong and released a video today that backed up his findings.

Picsay even has PINCH AND ZOOM. What critics don’t understand or failed to acknowledge/research is that while the Android Browser doesn’t have multi-touch capabilities by default, the operating system itself supports multi-touch. If you don’t believe me, you obviously didn’t watch the above video from an application currently available on Android Market.

{Source:Phandroid}

I think an issue a lot of people have is that you have to use alternate apps to get the "multi-touch" features. Where is the pinch and zoom for the browser? Thanks for the info on Picsay though, but I don't want to have to launch Picsay just to be able to pinch and zoom my pics. This should have been a native feature. Hopefully someone will come out with a hack that will make the pinch and zoom feature systemwide.

 

[ltfrakes]

Dan, You The Man!!! Woot^2

 

[superglen99]

Ok...
I'm someone who likes to get the best value for my money....now I'm DEFINITELY getting the Motorola Droid....but with all this talk about new versions of Android (2.1) to be released in early 2010, as well as the QWERTY-less version...(which I do NOT want)...this is all leading me to believe that they are going to push a fix/ updated hardware AND software Moto Droid (1.5) sometime before the June 2010. Anybody getting that impression?
Right now, I'm reluctantly moving back to 'on the fence' with my purchase of the Droid.....UGHH!

Joegrind you have to realize that any piece of technology is the perfect platform for buyers remorse. I thought of this as well but if you wait to get Android 2.1 phones then they will be talking about the next update and so on. You can't win. You get the Droid and will mostly likely get automatic updates as android evolves. Same thing if you bought an HDTV a couple years ago, now you can get a tv much better than that one for less! thats technology for ya

 

[unix.punkx]

Nice! I would love to see Mozilla and Google port their browsers over. I'm on the development channel for Chrome on the Mac and it is perhaps my most favorite browser.

 

[struong57]

Ok...
I'm someone who likes to get the best value for my money....now I'm DEFINITELY getting the Motorola Droid....but with all this talk about new versions of Android (2.1) to be released in early 2010, as well as the QWERTY-less version...(which I do NOT want)...this is all leading me to believe that they are going to push a fix/ updated hardware AND software Moto Droid (1.5) sometime before the June 2010. Anybody getting that impression?
Right now, I'm reluctantly moving back to 'on the fence' with my purchase of the Droid.....UGHH!

Joegrind you have to realize that any piece of technology is the perfect platform for buyers remorse. I thought of this as well but if you wait to get Android 2.1 phones then they will be talking about the next update and so on. You can't win. You get the Droid and will mostly likely get automatic updates as android evolves. Same thing if you bought an HDTV a couple years ago, now you can get a tv much better than that one for less! thats technology for ya

I agree with both of you guys, but I personally think that the 2nd generation Droid will have most, if not all its bugs and glitches worked out (loose battery cover, multi touch, improved camera shutter speed, improved QWERTY or no physical keyboard but slimmer phone, etc...)

 

[garrett]

The European Version has it on their browser; for some reason they didn't do it in the US cool vid thanks

the reason for this there are no patent laws in the UK.... i dont think they included it in the US version in fears of a lawsuit from apple.

 

[garrett]

The European Version has it on their browser; for some reason they didn't do it in the US cool vid thanks

the reason for this there are no patent laws in the UK.... i dont think they included it in the US version in fears of a lawsuit from apple.

i didnt know you could patent a gesture just the name and technology... so all they should do is call it something else and they would be in the clear..

 

[dcypher]

Google released the 2.0 code I hope someone figures the pinch and zoom out soon I've heard a lot of people say that after the code was released it would be pretty easy to do

 

[motorheadfun]

What is the application for pinch and zoom? I cannot seem to find it on Android market. Thanks

 

[MattMatt757]

Droid Does! do Multitouch

Hey guys,
Droid does do multitouch and as you saw does it very well...The big blog gossip saying it doesn't only refers to the Droid 2.0 apps that come built in on the phone...The phone can do multitouch, the droid 2.0 supports it and many apps in the android market already use and abuse the ability to do multitouch...The big thing is "current built in apps dont support it...And based on what the word on the web is, there is a good reason for this; Droid 2.0 will come out on phones that can't or will have trouble using multitouch...So, google chose to leave it of the base model apps but will provide upgrades and downloads...2 are already scheduled, one next month, and one sometime after the first of the year...These upgrades to the software apparently will help with a few of the minor glitches that have been discovered already...Hooray to the speed of google on that...

Down w/ the Droid -