Thread: Observations on N900 touchscreen behavior
View Single Post
shinkamui is offline shinkamui
2010-01-12 , 04:38
Posts: 116 | Thanked: 86 times | Joined on Dec 2009 @ New Orleans, LA, USA
#19
Originally Posted by mthmob View Post
This effect is the same as the effect you get from touching the mousepad thingie on laptop computers with two fingers, the mouse pointer jumps in the same way.

But still nice way to switch desktops and its pretty cool that it reacts to how much pressure you apply on each spot.
A number of synaptic touchpads can detect multiple touches:
http://techdigger.wordpress.com/2009...ows-xp-vista7/

I have a multitouch driver working on my laptop in X quite nicely. 2 finger scrolling is quite enjoyable. Not that Im saying the N900 has a multitouch resistive screen (though they do exist, youtube a very nice demo), Im just saying that many laptop trackpads DO support multitiouch Additionally I'd like to add that there has been speculation that the N900's touchscreen is a Stantum Multitouch display (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1GCI5B5ntk for a demo). Anyway, no one has confirmed either way that it is or isnt, so I wouldn't outright dismiss the possibility.