[maemo-developers] Nokia - lost second chance - another multitouch by Apple patented

[From: gary liquid]

You obviously do not realise how touchscreens work.

When you press in 2 locations the click point will be located at the centre
of gravity between those points.
This is why if you accidentally catch your screen with your wrist whilst
operating  with the stylus the pointer will shoot off in a random direction.

do some reading up, and also - the touchpad on the iphone etc is a
completely different technology.
Take the stylus you use for touching your nokia and use it on the iphone
screen.

I have to wonder though, if you are so impressed with their technology why
you haven't you moved to using their devices fulltime?

gary (lcuk on #maemo)


On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Darius Jack <dariusjack2006 at yahoo.ie>wrote:

> Sorry Simon, but it works as semi-multitouch.
>
> I have discovered this feature opening my Semantic WWW Magazines
> in maemo.
> With 2 fingers pressed I can move Welcome page horizontally, like in iPod
> Touch.
>
> Darius
>
>
>
> --- On Tue, 2/9/08, Simon Budig <simon at budig.de> wrote:
>
> > From: Simon Budig <simon at budig.de>
> > Subject: Re: Nokia - lost second chance - another multitouch by Apple
> patented
> > To: maemo-developers at maemo.org
> > Date: Tuesday, 2 September, 2008, 3:49 PM
> > Darius Jack (dariusjack2006 at yahoo.ie) wrote:
> > > [...] N 770 ( first in the world multitouch Internet
> > tablet). N 770
> > > was really multitouch gizmo (just try to move web page
> > with 2
> > > fingers).
> >
> > You're wrong here: what you're seeing when pressing
> > multiple fingers on
> > the touchscreen is some kind of "average"
> > position. Typically the
> > "mousepointer" ends up in the middle between the
> > two fingers pressing
> > the screen, just try it in the drawing application.
> >
> > The scrolling in the webbrowser just made you believe that
> > it would be
> > doing something sensible, it really does not.
> >
> > Bye,
> >         Simon
> >
> > --
> >               simon at budig.de
> > http://simon.budig.de/
> >        simon.budig at kernelconcepts.de
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