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Apple working on adding multi-touch to iPod click-wheels
AppleInsider — ... with a built-in digital camera and more compact circular scroll wheel. This new nano could be the first iPod support multi-touch gestures through its click-wheel, according to recent patent filing discovered by AppleInsider this week that details methods for detecting "input gestures that traverse the center of the scroll wheel and to detect multi-touch input." More specifically, the 38-page filing made just this past September describes a "multi-dimensional scroll wheel" that "can sense a moving object, such as a finger, as it is moved not only in a rotational manner ...

New iPods to have Multitouch Click-Wheels?
I4U News — ... its capabilities. The new click-wheels are expected to make their debut with the fifth-generation iPod Nano. The new Nanos are already getting digital cameras and a smaller click-wheel as part of their redesign, and a multitouch wheel is a substantial upgrade from what was there before. Multitouch will make it easier to flip through pictures and browse your music library, as well as bringing an awesome zoom function to the Nanos. Apple hasn't confirmed any of this yet, of course, but the patent , filed in September, speaks for them. If not the Nano, what else could this new ...

News: Apple patents point to in-call media sharing, multi-touch Click Wheels
iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond — A pair of new Apple patent filings suggest the company is working on both a method for sharing media files like video, photos, and music while on a call, and a multi-touch control scheme for Click Wheel iPods. Titled ” Methods and systems for mixing media with communications ,” the first patent describes a scenario in which the user is discussing a piece of media during a phone call, and then hits an “Add Media” button within the Phone application to attach and send the item to the iPhone user on the other end of the call. The filing also makes several references to interactive video conferences, suggesting the feature may be planned for a future iPhone model, as video conferencing is not possible with currently-available versions of the iPhone. The second filing, titled ” Multi-dimensional Scroll Wheel ,” ...