Thread: Observations on N900 touchscreen behavior
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2009-12-26 , 23:27
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Old news... Like go1dfish and others said, this is how resistive screens work. Old versions of liqbase (pre-N900) included a "fake multitouch" demo, which approximated the location of the second touch input based on the initial (stationary) location and the averaged point provided by the screen. Here's a video.

Originally Posted by Bratag View Post
I believe the limitation isnt the hardware but rather the software at this stage.
Unfortunately I don't think so.

Originally Posted by Bratag View Post
Word is that the maemo 6 will have multiple input etc. Interesting to see what you discovered though. Perhaps a hack is doable.
I think they've said Maemo 6 will support capacitive screens, meaning we'll likely get multitouch when we get new hardware. Whether or not Maemo 6 will even run on the current hardware, I'm pretty sure the N900 will never have true multitouch because the resistive screen is incapable.