HTC Diamond and Touch Pro to use Multi-Touch

wjrandon · #1 (**permalink**) 08-20-2008, 01:05 PM

There's a video floating around showing a user with an application called Nav Debug Tool by HTC, that depicts that the front face of HTC Diamond and Touch Pro can track finger movements, including two fingers simultaneously (iPhone style). There's no known features on the two devices that utilize this ability but with features like multi touch and accelerometer it looks like both the HTC Touch diamond and Touch Pro are going to be fully compatible with Windows Mobile 7 when it's released.=D>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Owgcos_KY

From Modaco: Via : xda-developers.com
Video Via : wmpoweruser.com

vman51 · #2 (**permalink**) 08-20-2008, 06:21 PM

but is the touch screen multi-touch? if so, then it would be comparable to the iphone..but this video doesn't show that the actual screen is multi-touch..

although the multi-touch there does lead me to ask one question - why?

it would be nice to navigate webpages and veiw/edit documents using multi-touch..other than that, i can't thing of something that it would greatly enhance over the mogul..

holo · #3 (**permalink**) 08-20-2008, 06:55 PM

from the info out there the entire front of the device is multi touch. this includes both the display and underneath it. wm6 currently does not support it and that is why it's not advertised as such - possibly if/when we get an upgrade to wm7 tho. I'm sure it's just a side effect of the new screen that they are using and not done so much on purpose. it really may be nice when software support for it comes out tho.....

xcopmanx · #4 (**permalink**) 08-22-2008, 01:10 PM

Has this been confirmed anywhere?

dabackwoodboy · #5 (**permalink**) 08-22-2008, 05:34 PM

not to go off topic and please dont flame me for my question but does any one think that there will a hack to make the dpad scroll up and down the page instead of zooming in and out

wjrandon · #6 (**permalink**) 08-22-2008, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by dabackwoodboy

not to go off topic and please dont flame me for my question but does any one think that there will a hack to make the dpad scroll up and down the page instead of zooming in and out

I think there's a high probability we'll see such customization eventually made available through user mods.

dabackwoodboy · #7 (**permalink**) 08-22-2008, 07:24 PM

yes cause i really miss the scroll wheal from my old mogul

wjrandon · #8 (**permalink**) 08-22-2008, 09:53 PM

Yeah, I'll be missing it also... but in case you didn't know, the Touch Flow interface supports "finger" scrolling for most applications, accentually turning the entire touch screen into a scroll wheel.

EtherealRemnant · #9 (**permalink**) 08-22-2008, 09:56 PM

TouchFlo's scrolling does *NOT* equal the scrolling of the Mogul's scroll wheel... I've had both the Touch and the Mogul... its way too easy on the Touch to flick just a bit too much and have it fly to the bottom of the page...

vman51 · #10 (**permalink**) 08-22-2008, 11:23 PM

forgive if this is a noob question, but

if wm6 isnt compatible with multi-touch, would there be a 3rd party browser that allows for the use of that feature?