Apple may be better then Nexus One and here we got a proof.

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Kunmui

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Almost every one was a big fan of the new Nexus One,including me but after I read an article that Nexus One manufacturer didn't activated multi-touch and to activate it you need to read a tutorial and download custom ROMs.These features should be activated already when they throw it out to market...Shame on Nexus One..Oh and if somebody interested on the steps that have to be made to activate this basic feature read this:
http://www.finestdaily.com/how-to/mobile-how-to/how-to-get-multi-touch-on-nexus-one.html
 
Pretty sure it was due to patent infringements, or apple didn't want to license it out to google.
Has nothing to do with Apple being "better". Misguided thread title, more so, misguided OP.
 
So............ because Nexus One contains a feature that has not officially unlocked yet, but which matches a feature on the iPhone, is final proof that the iPhone is better? Can't say I understand your logic... :rolleyes:
 
Not siding with the OP here, but your quote is basically what critics have been criticizing the iPhone for since day one.
 
multi-touch does not make a phone better, its more gimmicky than practical. Speaking of which, I've heard that Nexus One now users have to unlock their phones to use third party apps, or mabey they are going to allow them but only from their website and charge for most of them. Next the batteries are going to keep crapping out, and in this ever present GSM world they are going to tie their phone to a 2G CDMA carrier for a long *** time.

OH WAIT

I have a friend with an iphone. fit and finish is amazing, well made, looks great, high resolution, great graphics, but the biggest thing killing the iphone is the damn policies of apple, and their selfish paranoid backwards thinking on technology makes microsoft look like a bastation of free thought.

Why I hate apple, is they have this *** backwards mentality towards everything they do. They certainly make a good product, but not good enough I would want to put up with their ****.

my next phone will have a linux kernal.
 
Saying that multitouch is more of a gimmick is laughable. :lolup:

Lets see ........

Precise Zooming on web pages, maps, pics, etc: VS pressing a magnify glass icon or tapping the screen for non precise increment zoom levels.

Then you have gaming, Plenty of iPhone games have virtual controls/joysticks. It wouldn't be possible to play them correctly without multitouch.

Typing would also most likely be less responsive too.
 
Let's see. Android browsers often default to the right font size then autosize columns you can immediately read the web page instead of having to zoom them in and out.

Its one of the things I notice using the Android browsers. Instead of zooming and out, you hit the text and the browser displays sizes up to the right font and displays the column. I don't zoom a lot on the Android browsers because I don't need to.

Now for precision. If you're doing precision editing, its easier to do it on the Android because you still have a trackball, so you can correctly put the cursor betwen c and K in "trackball" instead of deleting the entire word altogether and typing it again, because your fingertips can't be too small or sharp to put the cursor between c and k.
 
When you hold down on the iPhone the magnify glass popup makes it extremely easy to place the cursor exactly were you want. Must faster than a trackball.
 
I can't really answer that csong, although I heard rumors it is actually Google abiding Apple's patent on multitouch... which sounds plausible to me. I guess we'll have to wait & see :)

Think of it this way: if you bought a Subaru Impreza (230 horse power) and you found out you could crank it up to 300 hp with a simple little hack (true story), you'd probably count your blessings and not visit your neighbor to complain his 1975 Volkswagen Beetle is MUCH better, because this 75 hp car is already cranked up to the max... right? :D
 
the iPhone browser does that too. Where pinch to zoom comes in handy is when you are viewing a picture in the browser(let's say a comic strip) and at the default zoo
level you see the entire the strip but can't read the text bubbles of what the charactors are saying. So now you can zoom in as far as you want to read said comic. The only thing sucks about the pinch to zoom is trying to do it one handed.
 
iPhone has the magnifying glass that zooms in to allow you to drag your cursor precisely. HTC's trackball on their Android devices gets the job done almost just as well, so neither device is really left wanting in this department. It only gets brought up in petty pissing matches when someone is trying convince the masses why the other device sucks.

I personally dig Android's browser because it redraws the text to fit your screen. The last iPhone firmware I used (3.1) did not do this. I would enlarge the text, then have to scroll to the right to read it all. Pinching and zooming IMO is a gimmick. I actually have the Milestone browser on my Droid, and I still use the double tap method simply because I can do it with one hand. What is so great about unnecessarily smudging your screen to enlarge text? I'm not saying that feature is worthless, but it certainly isn't worth the amount of attention that it gets. It's discussion on sites like this exist for reasons stated earlier; as a smoking gun that some iZealot can hang their hat on to prove why their phone is better. Anyone who cares that much about it, probably has figured out a way to do it, whether by hacking the default apps, or downloading alternatives from the market. Same goes for whatever the iPhone is "lacking."

As far as gaming, the API for multi touch is present within the 2.0 dev kit. How else do you think apps like multi touch gallery, Dolphin, or PicSay have it? What's to stop someone from implementing it on gaming apps?
 
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