multi-touch coming to droid? motorola and google weigh in
Thursday, February 04, 2010motorola and google have both confirmed that multi-touch will be available on the motorola droid, but that doesn't necessarily mean we are guaranteed to have it with the next update. what does that mean? it's all up to verizon my friends.
motorola's answer...
While designing DROID, and all Motorola mobile devices, Motorola work very closely with carriers and partners to deliver differentiated consumer experiences, depending on the region, carrier preferences and consumer needs. DROID features double tap zoom, a new way to zoom in on content. For example, when viewing web pages, simply tap twice on the content you want to view and DROID automatically zooms in and fits the content to the width of the display. You can also zoom in and out with on screen zoom controls.and google with pretty much the same response...
The Android 2.0 framework includes support for multi-touch. As with other Android platform technologies, such as the text-to-speech engine, operators and handset makers can choose to implement this technology. Regarding the specific pinch-to-zoom functionality included in this new update, once we make this software update (2.1-update1) available to operators and handset makers, they can update their Android-powered devices accordingly.so is that good news or bad news? well good news that we essentially already knew. bad news in the sense that verizon takes forever to do anything and will probably be arguing over multi-touch in some large conference room for the next 6 months all the while delaying our 2.1 update. yay!
(via android central)
10 comments
yeah i smell bulls*it. i had a BB tour and to my knowledge every other provider has given it the official OS 5.0 update except for verizon. The fact that verizon has to mull over this irks me. Let's pray they make the right decision. In the mean time, thank god for droid-life! woot
ReplyDeleteyeah i gave my wife my bb tour and it still doesnt have 5.0 from verizon. start tapping your fingers now...
ReplyDeleteVerizon will have nothing to do with the update. The phone came out essentially as a phone with google. Google handles the updates going out for the Droid at least. It's phones like Hero and others with SenceUI and the like that relies on the carriers.
ReplyDeletei sold my BB Tour on ebay for twice as much as i got it for...sucker **evil laughter**
ReplyDeletehello, your page is hard to read cuz of the font color. tnx.
ReplyDelete-r4ph
I see the words fine...
ReplyDeleteLong time lister first time caller.
I sent an email to Verizon. I know it won't mean much, but I want that update.
Sorry r4ph. We'll take it into consideration. :)
ReplyDeletefobrob102: Haha cheers to that.
Anon1: How can you say that Verizon has nothing to do with the update? They have everything to do with it. It's a phone on their network.
Well I got an email back. Pretty fast I might add.
ReplyDelete________________
Good day, my name is Darrell and I am more than happy to assist you with your request regarding updating software versions.
Mr. _____, please know that we truly value your business and I apologize for any inconvenience.
I can confirm that Verizon Wireless will publish software updates to the newest versions whenever they become available to us through the manufacturer.
I forwarded your comments to our data management team for consideration to pursue further, however your comments may best be directed to manufacturer of your equipment, Motorola, as again, they create and distribute the software for their handsets. Motorola Customer Service is available at 800-331-6456 or at www.motorola.com/mdirect/hellomoto/html/hellomoto.htm.
Again, I apologize for any inconvenience and hope that you have a great day!
We appreciate your business and thank you for using Verizon Wireless products and services.
Sincerely,
Darrell
Verizon Wireless
Customer Service
Verizon has absolutely nothing to do with the Droid being updated. That was the reason for the whole big deal when the phone was announced it was essentially googles phone Moto just gave up the hardware and Verizon gave up their network. Verizon does have everything to do with phones like BB's and their regular dumb phones because they are for the majority completely controlled by verizon. With the Droid it is a phone with google with absolutely no Moto custom UI so in that way Verizon and Moto have nothing to do with when the Droid gets it update. It is completely on Googles shoulders. When they talk about giving the update to the carriers and makers they are talking about phones like the Hero, and the Cliq these phones that the makers put their own UI's on the phones. Those are the phones that have to wait on the makers and the networks.
ReplyDeleteWell thanks for clearing that up. :)
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