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Tech Blog: Motorola Milestone is GSM DROID for Europe, Gets Pinch-and-Zoom
I4U News: Motorola Milestone Is Official In Germany
jkOnTheRun: Droid Heads to Europe — Picks up Multitouch on the Way
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RT @joewalker: I hope awareness of the problem of patents is raised by Droid not having multitouch where EU versn does http://tr.im/mtdroid 11/3/2009 |
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GSM DROID with multitouch pinch-to-zoom demoed on video hating America http://bit.ly/2RxTqk 11/3/2009 |
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@gruber There's a rumour it might in the European version: http://bit.ly/4wLHEY 11/2/2009 |
Motorola Milestone is GSM DROID for Europe, Gets Pinch-and-Zoom
Tech Blog —
... The Motorola Milestone, a GSM version of the DROID, will hit Germany (O2 or Vodafone) and Italy later this month, and it's got one new feature: pinch-and-zoom. Continue reading for a video demonstration.
...the US version of the user interface lacks multi-touch features like pinch-to-zoom even though the underlying 2.0 OS supports multitouch events.
[via Engadget]
Motorola Milestone Is Official In Germany
I4U News —
... appeared already over the weekend, but now Motorola presents the Milestone aka Droid in full glory on their German site. There is actually one interesting difference between the Droid and the Milestone. The two finger pinch zoom gesture is available on the German Milestone, but not on the U.S. Droid. Engadget features video of the Milestone doing the pinch. The German Milestone specifications on the Motorola ...
Droid Heads to Europe — Picks up Multitouch on the Way
jkOnTheRun —
... . in just a few days, and a GSM version has already stormed the shores of Europe. One of the complaints that reviewers of the Verizon version have echoed is the lack of multitouch to provide pinch and zoom in the photo app and web browser. Android 2.0 does support multitouch, as can the Droid hardware, so the lack of pinch and zoom seems to be a conscious decision on someone’s part. The GSM version of the Droid, dubbed the Milestone, has gained multitouch in both the photo gallery app and the web browser. Could there be multitouch hope for the U.S. version on Verizon? ...
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Motorola DROID's built-in apps don't have multitouch support, third-party stuff is another story
Engadget Mobile —
... , and it's certainly not the kind you'll see out of the box. The DROID's European cousin features multitouch right in the phone's core software load (most notably pinch-and-zoom in the browser, which we've seen demoed on video) whereas the DROID itself still features multitouch capability in APIs but doesn't expose it through any built-in app. Translation: the apps you use every day -- Google Maps and the browser, chiefly -- get left out in the cold for some reason that neither Google nor Motorola (nor Verizon) have thus far been willing to adequately justify. Where you can ...
