Apple sues Motorola right back over six patents
What, you didn't think Apple was just going to sit around and take it after Motorola first sued for patent infringement and then asked to court to declare some 20 of Cupertino's patents weren't applicable to its products, did you? Apple's fired back with two lawsuits claiming that Motorola's Android phones, including but not limited to the Droid, Droid 2, Droid X, Cliq, Cliq XT, BackFlip, Devour A555, Devour i1, and Charm, infringe a total of six multitouch and OS patents. That would be pretty much par for the course -- you sue me, I sue you -- but there are a couple interesting strategic wrinkles to note: We've only seen Apple litigate one of these patents before: #7,479,949, Touch Screen Device, Method, and Graphical User Interface for Determining Commands by Applying Heuristics.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: breaking-news, covering-scroll, graphical, legal, litigate, motorola, multi touch, multitouch, patent, screen, sue, tactic
Confirmed: Droid Incredible’s multitouch support is better than the Nexus One’s
You might recall that fascinating video a while back showing the Nexus One's touch sensor getting all discombobulated when the tester's multitouch fingerwork started to get a little too fancy, and now, Android Central has confirmed that Verizon's Droid Incredible doesn't suffer the same fate -- but why is that, exactly? Android and Me is reporting that the Droid Incredible and EVO 4G both employ an Atmel maXTouch sensor with unlimited touch support -- a relatively new product launched in late '09 -- whereas the Nexus One is using Synaptics' older ClearPad 2000, which was designed to top out with simple two-finger gestures like pinch zoom. The upshot?
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: circles, droid incredible, droidincredible, gestures, htc, multi touch, multitouch, nexus, sensor, silver, verizon-wireless, verizonwireless, video, zoom
Xperia X10 multitouch issue hardware-related?
Sony Ericsson's flagship Android smartphone, the Xperia X10 , has been plagued by laggy performance since we first laid eyes on it , but that won't always be the case; the company has confirmed repeatedly that upgrades (including a newer Android OS version ) will come. However, it now seems that multitouch is not in the cards
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: cards, entry, ericsson, flagship, get-multitouch, milestone, multi touch, multitouch, official, sonyericsson, splines, the-official, x10, xperia-x10, xperiax10
Andy Rubin on multitouch in Android: ‘I personally don’t like two-handed operations’
In a very special CES edition of All Things D today, our own Joshua Topolsky had an opportunity to directly confront Google's Andy Rubin on the nagging multitouch issue -- not necessarily multitouch itself, but the growing disparity in support between American and European devices (the Droid / Milestone being the most famous example): "You call this a superphone -- 3.7-inch capacitive display, but no keyboard and no multitouch. Yet it has multitouch outside the US. Why not America?" Andy's reply: "It's not an America versus outside America kind of thing
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: all things d, being-the-most, conspiracy, european-nexus, joshua, mossberg, multi touch, multitouch, result, support-between, walt mossberg
Surprise, surprise: HTC’s Euro-spec Nexus One does multitouch
Alright, Google, we get it: you hate America. That's the only conclusion we can reach for why the company's last two Android version hero devices -- the Droid for 2.0 and the Nexus One for 2.1 -- have mysteriously opted to exclude multitouch support in the phone's in-built apps (despite retaining support in third-party downloads). As we all know, the European Milestone adds that functionality back in, and it seems that the European version of the Nexus One (which'll be offered by Vodafone) is getting the same boost.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: apps, droid, engadget, euro, gestures, heise, likely-the-same, milestone, multi touch, nexus, spec, starts-selling
Rubin on adding multitouch to the Nexus One: ‘we’ll consider it’
Google and its partners have a track record of being clear as mud about their intentions regarding multitouch -- they're obviously all dancing around the issue, but there's definitely some logic (probably legal logic, but logic nonetheless) behind which devices are getting it in which markets. Notably lacking multitouch, though is the flagship Nexus One -- an odd device for Google to fail to pimp out in every conceivable way, we'd argue
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: clear-as-mud, days, flagship, Logic, mountain, mountain-view, multi touch, nexus, nexusone, Pimp, probably-legal, rubin-on-adding, software-update
Enable Multi-touch in All Apps on HTC HD2 | Redmond Pie
In the pre-release test Roms of Windows Mobile 6.5 for HTC HD2, pinch-to-zoom functionality was available across all apps by which one could finger pinch any application on the screen and it would zoom in. In the final release, however, ...
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: delicious, enable, facebook, htc, htc-hd2, iphone, microsoft, Mobile Phone, multi touch, office, taimur-asad, windows, windows-phone, windows-phones
HTC Leo Mystery Revealed: It's HTC HD2, Doesn't do Multi Touch in …
We asked a question over here and it seems that we've finally got our answer... After seeing a couple of photos showing HTC Leo with the Touch Three etching on.
Categories: Android, BlackBerry, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: 22-topics, ads, htc-leo, iphone, mobile, multi touch, nokia, price, stumbleupon
Android 2.0 predictions – Part 1 | Android and Me
Reuters first confirmed that Android 2.0 (Eclair) will be released this year and my sources keep telling me the Motorola Sholes from Verizon will be the flagship phone to to launch the new update. Motorola announced we would get a first ...
Categories: Android, htc, Other, PS2 Tags: accessories, applications, atrackdog, contests, droid, games, guides, htc, latest-from-the-forums, motorola-sholes, multi touch, news, PS2, tutorial
Windows Mobile 7 to be a premium, multitouch beast of a platform
Filed under: Software , Windows Mobile Seeing the gold build of Windows Mobile 6.5 in action was pretty nifty, but Inquirer 's recent video actually managed to unveil a few juicy tidbits about version 7 as well -- a platform that's shaping up to be that massive, ground-up rewrite of WinMo we've all been hoping for for years (as far as we can tell). The lack of multitouch is a sore point for some in 6.5 -- not just because of the goodness of the multitouch gestures themselves, but because it's indicative of a broader failure on Microsoft's part to recognize that touch-based mobile UIs have been wholly reinvented since the days of Windows Mobile 2003
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: accessories, culture, engadget, internet, joystiq, microsoft, mobile, multi touch, windows mobile 6.5, windows-mobile, windowsmobile6.5, windowsmobile7, winmo