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
Hacker cons HTC Touch Pro 2 into providing multitouch, other WinMo devices too (video)
Never, ever doubt the skill and determination of the guys over at xda-developers , capable of cracking any device and bringing you fresh ROMs to brighten up your stuffy gadgets. This latest bit of wunder-code isn't a full new image, rather a tiny WinMo app that does something magical: enables multitouch on single-touch resistive screens
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: binaries, devices-too, image, mobile, multitouch, opera, xda, xda-developers
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
Motorola Droid vs Nexus One: Multitouch Test
Comparing the multitouch capabilities of the Motorola Droid and Nexus One. Using the Multitouch Visible Test application by Battery Powered Games. bit.ly
HTC Hero shows off multitouch-enabled Sense UI on video
Bear in mind we don't know for sure whether this is a forthcoming iteration of the Sense UI or just an industrious hacker, but the video after the break shows off some pretty sweet multittouch integration into HTC's Android skin. Pinch-to-zoom, that most notorious of functions, is used to achieve an Expos
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: entry, hero, htchero, multitouch, pinch-to-zoom, pinchtozoom, purportedly, sense, sense ui 2.1
Nexus One’s big update can be had without the wait
Android's devised one of the slickest, most widely-deployed systems for delivering over-the-air operating system updates to smartphones, but there's a problem: you've got to wait until your carrier (or manufacturer) blesses you with them. They're typically deployed in rolling batches so that it's easier for the company to do one final test of the code's veracity and limit potential damage before sending it to a wider audience -- but where there's a will, there's a way, right? As is often the case with these things, some folks have found a way to get the Nexus One's glorious new multitouch code on the phone before Google's willing to give it to you, and for anyone who's done this before , it's a fairly standard-issue procedure: copy the update to the root of your microSD card, reboot into recovery mode, and apply the binary
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: batches, engadget, entry, hack, microsd, mode, multitouch, nexus, operating, reboot, rolling-batches, slickest, update
Nexus One gets a software update, enables multitouch
The iPhone isn't the only handset getting bumped today -- Google's just outed a very, very significant update to the Nexus One that includes Google Goggles on board and a re-upped version of Google Maps that includes suggestions and a dedicated night mode. Much more significantly, though, they've capitulated and enabled multitouch in Browser, Gallery, and Maps -- great news and a big win for the Android community at large.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: big, dedicated-night, google-maps, improvements, multitouch, pinch-to-zoom, result, software-update, win
Multitouch Browsing on the Nexus One (Or Any Android Device)
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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