Pinch-to-zoom is overrated. I always use a quick double tap on my 3GS. Works way better IMO. Actually I haven't found a single good use for multitouch yet.
You use multi-touch every time you type an email, text message, or enter in any text on an iPhone. Multi-touch allows your to strike more than one key at a time, making typing faster.
My Hero has the same capability. I type much more quickly on my Hero (with multi-touch) than on my friend's MyTouch 3G (without multi-touch).
Double tap is great if you want to fit the image to the window. Double tap is useless if you want to zoom in to the image. I zoom into images all the time on the iPhone, and you can't do that by only using double tap.
bjsguess - No, idiot. Pinch zooming serves a purpose that double tapping cannot replicate. GRANULAR ZOOM. Both in and out, to as large or small a degree as you want. People who say it's overrated have obviously never used it. It solves one of the biggest issues with looking at web pages or images on a small device like a phone. Double tapping is not nearly as good or even useful at all when you constantly need to zoom in and out over various different sections of a page or an image.
@Information Central actually, smartass, you'd be surprised. Most people hit 2 fingers at a time on keyboards without realizing it. When you do it without multitouch, the screen doesn't know which letter to pick and some screens will hit the letter in-between the two pressure points; so if you hit H then while typing fast accidentally hit A before you release, it will input D for you. With multitouch enabled it can speed up your typing and account for less errors. Something we can all use.
"Double tapping is not nearly as good or even useful at all when you constantly need to zoom in and out over various different sections of a page or an image."
Bullshit. The iPhone's double-tap zooming nails it. My guess is that they're doing something smart to maximize the relevant DIVs on the page or something. Regardless, it works shockingly well. The iPhone (and Apple UIs in general) have plenty of issues, but the iPhone Web-browsing experience sets the standard for all mobile devices.
Multitouch is a bunch of empty hype that has been rammed down our throats but failed to do anything but zoom and rotate for what, three or four years now? And they're STILL showing the same demos of exactly that. It's embarrassing at this point.
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Pinch-to-zoom is overrated. I always use a quick double tap on my 3GS. Works way better IMO. Actually I haven't found a single good use for multitouch yet.
Agreed... I hardly ever pinch to zoom on my iPod Touch... almost always use a double tap, it's more precise and uses fewer fingers.
You use multi-touch every time you type an email, text message, or enter in any text on an iPhone. Multi-touch allows your to strike more than one key at a time, making typing faster.
My Hero has the same capability. I type much more quickly on my Hero (with multi-touch) than on my friend's MyTouch 3G (without multi-touch).
Double tap is great if you want to fit the image to the window. Double tap is useless if you want to zoom in to the image. I zoom into images all the time on the iPhone, and you can't do that by only using double tap.
"You use multi-touch every time you type an email, text message, or enter in any text"
WTF are you talking about? You're only pressing the screen with one finger at a time, especially if you're typing with one finger overall.
Most overhyped feature in the cell phone market today. Great for novelty and not much else.
Hmmm... now I feel left out as the only person who pinches in the web browser. I like the precision, but thats just me and my OCD.
bjsguess - No, idiot. Pinch zooming serves a purpose that double tapping cannot replicate. GRANULAR ZOOM. Both in and out, to as large or small a degree as you want. People who say it's overrated have obviously never used it. It solves one of the biggest issues with looking at web pages or images on a small device like a phone. Double tapping is not nearly as good or even useful at all when you constantly need to zoom in and out over various different sections of a page or an image.
Forget the pinch, I go with the counter-clockwise swirl.
@Information Central
actually, smartass, you'd be surprised. Most people hit 2 fingers at a time on keyboards without realizing it. When you do it without multitouch, the screen doesn't know which letter to pick and some screens will hit the letter in-between the two pressure points; so if you hit H then while typing fast accidentally hit A before you release, it will input D for you. With multitouch enabled it can speed up your typing and account for less errors. Something we can all use.
"Double tapping is not nearly as good or even useful at all when you constantly need to zoom in and out over various different sections of a page or an image."
Bullshit. The iPhone's double-tap zooming nails it. My guess is that they're doing something smart to maximize the relevant DIVs on the page or something. Regardless, it works shockingly well. The iPhone (and Apple UIs in general) have plenty of issues, but the iPhone Web-browsing experience sets the standard for all mobile devices.
Multitouch is a bunch of empty hype that has been rammed down our throats but failed to do anything but zoom and rotate for what, three or four years now? And they're STILL showing the same demos of exactly that. It's embarrassing at this point.