[...] us completely confused. The Verizon Motorola Droid supports multitouch but does not do pinch zoom in the browser. The Motorola Milestone (European counterpart of the [...]

To all you PINCH-ZOOM addicts. Since you’re accustomed to applying the same technique to your tiny penises, I’m sure you’ll get many years of pleasure with your iToys.

For the more intelligent adults among us that have normal size appendages, although did enjoy the P-Z novelty when I got my first rotten Apple (I only say rotten because I suffered through 4 defective iPhones), I currently find a quick double-tap to give me a much more predictable result and more importantly I can still drag one finger across my Android screen to see any part of the page I choose. I can also use that same finger to tell the world what I think of this ridiculous debate.

Can’t drive one handed and do Apple iPhoney’s “Multi-Touch” w/pinch zoom in Google Maps even on iPhone. So if you’re suggesting something lame & personal….. lol… just keep it to yourself! haha… it’s already more info than we need! ;)

btw…. to all the Applettes and iDon’t users. All touch screen are multiple touch capable and the technology is old (1972 bank ATM’s, etc). Basically Android 2.x or greater is multiple touch enabled. But Google and Apple have an agreement to not use “Pinch Zoom”. Although App Devs are using “Squeeze Zoom” in their designs! …and just so you know, why in the World would you be doing your thing w/ any phone in your other hand! xD …but please don’t tell us! ;)

If there are not effective and standard system wide multi touch gestures, the phone does not have multi-touch, not matter how much is Supports it, it is still vapor ware until I can use it. #fail

Pay the license fee to apple and minus the suck from the google phone.

had the iPhone with att, had to return it because it can’t serve its main purpose, being a reliable phone. It amazes me that people are willing to put up with dropped calls, static, no service etc. just to have a mobile web browser
Droid as a phone crushes iPhone period. In my office building the iPhone was a paperweight.

[...] us completely confused. The Verizon Motorola Droid supports multitouch but does not do pinch zoom in the browser. The Motorola Milestone (European counterpart of the [...]

Hey Hey Hey! Android 1.6 already has pinch multi-touch features implemented with a style of its very own! ie: Bring a browser up and navigate to any page. Touch the screen with two fingers simultaneously in a pinch movement. It will instantly bring up the plus/minus zoom widgit and a framer widget to navigate to the part of the webpage you wish to point and zoom into. Maybe not as quick as Apples pinch and zoom but definitely elegant and functional in its own way.

The browser that iphone uses is not there own. both Iphone and android get there browsers from a company called http://webkit.org

may i suggest that your have a rooted phone in which case you have the option to make your browser appear as if it was form an iphone or from linux or android.

They are NOT being sued by Apple. All it has been is saber rattling so far.

Personally, I don’t think Apple wants to run that battle until more time has passed. There are still youtube videos of multi-touch pinch zoom demos years before the iphone came out.

Just do a search for Jeff Han, multi-touch. He had public demos of it back in 2005. It had been demoed to university audiences by him as far back as 2003. Other companies have had multi-touch and zoom features for years earlier.

Wow, calm down iphan. He’s saying that the pinch zoom _in the browser_ is a clunky waste of time. Few would disagree. I’ve had a ipod touch for a couple years now and never, not ever, use pinch zoom on web pages. It’s a hassle, you don’t zoom it to the right perspective, you have to use two hands… it’s clunky.

The only time I use the pinch zoom.

And as for your comment that other mobile OSs are still trying to catch up… that is as fanboy as it gets. Android is already far and beyond iphone OS. Tell me one thing other than time (for app development) and userbase that iphone has over Android? I can’t name a single feature.

I’ve heard claims about a “polished” UI but simplified doesn’t mean polished. It’s showing its age. No widgets and background apps is enough to toss that OS.