<div dir="ltr">You obviously do not realise how touchscreens work.<br><br>When you press in 2 locations the click point will be located at the centre of gravity between those points.<br>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.<br>
<br>do some reading up, and also - the touchpad on the iphone etc is a completely different technology.<br>Take the stylus you use for touching your nokia and use it on the iphone screen.<br><br>I have to wonder though, if you are so impressed with their technology why you haven't you moved to using their devices fulltime?<br>
<br>gary (lcuk on #maemo)<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Darius Jack <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dariusjack2006@yahoo.ie">dariusjack2006@yahoo.ie</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Sorry Simon, but it works as semi-multitouch.<br>
<br>
I have discovered this feature opening my Semantic WWW Magazines<br>
in maemo.<br>
With 2 fingers pressed I can move Welcome page horizontally, like in iPod Touch.<br>
<br>
Darius<br>
<br>
<br>
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--- On Tue, 2/9/08, Simon Budig <<a href="mailto:simon@budig.de">simon@budig.de</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> From: Simon Budig <<a href="mailto:simon@budig.de">simon@budig.de</a>><br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Subject: Re: Nokia - lost second chance - another multitouch by Apple patented<br>
</div>> To: <a href="mailto:maemo-developers@maemo.org">maemo-developers@maemo.org</a><br>
> Date: Tuesday, 2 September, 2008, 3:49 PM<br>
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> Darius Jack (<a href="mailto:dariusjack2006@yahoo.ie">dariusjack2006@yahoo.ie</a>) wrote:<br>
> > [...] N 770 ( first in the world multitouch Internet<br>
> tablet). N 770<br>
> > was really multitouch gizmo (just try to move web page<br>
> with 2<br>
> > fingers).<br>
><br>
> You're wrong here: what you're seeing when pressing<br>
> multiple fingers on<br>
> the touchscreen is some kind of "average"<br>
> position. Typically the<br>
> "mousepointer" ends up in the middle between the<br>
> two fingers pressing<br>
> the screen, just try it in the drawing application.<br>
><br>
> The scrolling in the webbrowser just made you believe that<br>
> it would be<br>
> doing something sensible, it really does not.<br>
><br>
> Bye,<br>
> Simon<br>
><br>
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