Video: HTC's Touch Diamond / Pro are multi-touch gods, just not how you'd think

While multi-touch input might be all the rage in handhelds and laptop trackpads at the moment, alas, it's not on the feature list for HTC's latest Touch Diamond and Touch Pro. However, the capability is indeed present and exploited on video by HTC's own debug application. Even more interesting is the way that the handsets' entire front, capacitive surface (not just the 2.8-inch, 640 x 480 pixel display) can be used for multi-finger input. So like Dell's Latitude XT Tablet which launched multi-touch ready, expect to see future, multi-touch capabilities come to HTC's latest... someday. Click through for the vid.

[Thanks, Marios S.]

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 20th 2008 10:46PM]

I just want a phone that does all the little meaningless things that make biPhone users think they're so cool because their stupid inadequate overpriced disappointment phone can do: like multi-touch, capacitive touchscreen and screen view that automatically flips to landscape when you rotate the phone. Finally a phone that really does do EVERYTHING the iPhone does and more and does it better. There will be a version of it on every carrier too so everyone can have one. They have a very serious shot at taking up the market that Apple can't touch which should at least let this phone equal biPhone sales, if not surpass it.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 21st 2008 2:20AM]

still waiting to be impressed by something

[mattcoz Posted Aug 21st 2008 12:16PM]

I don't get why the surface is capacitive with multi-touch, yet the screen itself is resistive. Is this a limitation of Windows Mobile?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 22nd 2008 3:56PM]

guys - im going to bet that this "multi touch" is basically two split input panels at the bottom of the phone, which cann both work at the same time... not true multitouch.
notice he didnt cross over from one side to the other. eh? eh??

still interesting and potentially useful, but not the same thing. (and mechanically, WAY easier to implement).

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 25th 2008 11:40AM]

Getting single touch to work properly would be already a good start.. I bought a Diamond and I spend more time resetting it than actually use it... I might be doing something wrong, but I doubt it...