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2009-10-22 , 16:11
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Originally Posted by quipper8 View Post
Uh, the Pre has multitouch, no suit from apple, therefore no death grip as your hypothesis states. Nokia could release multitouch features and apple would be wise to sit on its hands just as it has done with palm. Lets see, which would you rather have in your phone, GSM and WLAN, or multitouch?
The Pre's use of multi-touch is just different enough from Apple's licensed patents on it that the Pre is unaffected. If Nokia went the route the Pre did, then it would be Palm Nokia would pay some IP fees to.

I find it very hard to prove that multi-touch is necessary beyond input tasks on a mobile device - all this fuss about Nokia and others *needing* it is pointless in the scheme of things mobile and accessible.
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