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Droid and multitouch

by FredAgain Dec 10, 2009 8:24AM PST

Once again I am hearing the mis-information that the Droid does not currently support multitouch - this time on BOL yesterday. This is wrong. The OS DOES allow multi-touch, its just the default apps that do not use it. Download the Dolphin web browser and pinch-and-zoom your heart out. Any app can do pinch-and-zoom if it is built to do so.

I don't know what's so great about pinch-and-zoom anyway. It takes two hands to do it, one to hold the phone and one to pinch-and-zoom. With the double-tap zoom of the default droid browser, I can zoom with my thumb with the same hand that is holding the phone.

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They've covered multitouch previous episodes

by Nicholas Buenk Dec 10, 2009 11:34AM PST

But on this occasion they must have been discussing the built in web browser. Although a list of alternative web browsers is very useful information.

And punch-zoom is important when the double tap doesn't work well or when you need to zoom out.

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Totally agree!

by raygun01 Dec 10, 2009 12:30PM PST

We may have inadvertently left it out of that particular discussion, but yes... I know the Droid has multitouch. I was really intending to refer to the built in web browser's lack of it. I had already tried the Dolphin browser which does offer multitouch for browsing and quite frankly, I thought it was clumsier than the double tap to zoom method which for me, so far, has been accurate nearly everytime I use it.

If somewhere down the line they add multitouch to the browser (as I imagine they will), it will be a nice bonus feature. But I'm not holding my breath for the update, nor am I even really missing the feature to be honest.

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