Cool. Looks like the HTC Touch Diamond (and presumably the HTC Touch Diamond Pro) can actually do multi-touch. Not only multi-touch on the screen itself, but all the way down around the navi-wheel and buttons. [Update – Apparently it’s just around the navigation buttons that the multi-touch works.] The feature is revealed when using HTC’s Nav Debug Tool but so far doesn’t have any practical use beyond simple testing. However, HTC updates its ROMs on a fairly regular basis so maybe we’ll someday see this feature come to light for normal people like you and me.
From MobileTopSoft:
Here is how it works:
* The area around the navi-wheel is actually a capacitive touch-area with multi-touch
* it may allow using finger pinching gesture and finger spreading gesture (zooming for example) and also implement 2 finger moving for panning gesture for example too.
* Not all capacitive touch-areas are multi-touch at the same time!
* You can try it for yourself at XDA-Developers NavDbgTool.exe, you must have registered account there in order to download
[via Gizmodo]
This article makes it seem like the screen is multi-touch too, which from reading the forum and information from the youtube video does not seem to be the case, it looks like only the touchpad at the bottom of the phone is multitouch, not the screen.
Source article says: “Using an application called Nav Debug Tool by HTC shows that the whole front of the device can track finger movements, and even two fingers independently, which makes it multi-touch!”
But the YouTube video comments from the person who uploaded it (presumably the same who wrote the source article) say that it’s not the entire front, just the touchpad area.
Good catch, thank you. I’ve changed our post.