May 182010
Comparing the multitouch capabilities of the Motorola Droid and Nexus One. Using the Multitouch Visible Test application by Battery Powered Games. bit.ly
Comparing the multitouch capabilities of the Motorola Droid and Nexus One. Using the Multitouch Visible Test application by Battery Powered Games. bit.ly
Motorola Droid has a Balda touch panel, the HTC uses a Synaptics ClearPad 2000 with only limited multi-touch, shame, but hopefully now the Synaptics Clearpad 3000 with upto 10 points of touch has been released, hopefully HTC and others with use that pad or the Balda, but the ClearPad 3000 is fine. The Droid Incredible (HTC) has ditched the Clearpad 2000 for something else, whether its the Balda or not I’m not sure.
@AsianTaeHyun it’s not that it doesn’t exist, he is saying that it is SO buggy and “doesn’t work properly” that its’ pretty much a broken multi-touch display.
no worries HTC incredible destroys the N1 in every way.
As far as games, try Toon Wars.
Works fine for my N1s also.
No issues like that on either of my N1s.
Loving my N1s.
No contracts on either. So, if I did, it would be going back or sold.
Everyone that sees it wants it, anyway.
Try another app that tests for the same issues, before judging.
They can’t have mine.
@AsianTaeHyun he means that true multitouch will never exist on the nexus one because the screen is terrible. so even if they do release it, it is never going to work right.
when u design an app it is supposed to be able to run on all android phones. the problem isnt with the app.
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@fusion2007 But then again, I won’t argue the touch screen on the Nexus sucks.
@fusion2007 Uh…. sorry but the Nexus One already came out with multi touch now…
Explanation for your judgement for “simply doesn’t exist and it won’t ever” please.
thats b/c the n1 is not made for multi touch.
@thefal because it wont work well with multitouch games
Does it really matter if the Nexus One detects it wrong? Most of the time if you use 2 fingers, you are using the pinch to zoom. The phone still detects how far you finger are apart, so zooming should still work properly. So why is this bad? (However, i must admit, it is weird)
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I agree, the nexus one screen gave me issues when I tried it out as well. I have since returned it. In 3 days I had to play around with hitting home or repowering the device in order to get the screen to recognize exactly where my finger was.
I have a simple answer for this.
Motorola has got Balda touchscreen sensors.(Same on the iphone)
Nexus One has a crap Synaptics ClearPad 2000.
That is why the multi-touch on the Nexus One simply doesn’t exist and it won’t ever because the touchscreen manufactured by U.S. based company Synaptics is a piece of crap.
Google and HTC should put their eyes in details less than in marketing has: Big processor and open fameworks.
It’s a shame.
on the droid eris, can u play motion games like cubefield and papi jump like on the motorola droid?
@nitrousboy0311 The N1 has a GPU also, it’s built into the SnapDragon CPU
The Hero has the same issues. I assume they’d use similar hardware since they’re both HTC manufactured.
I don’t think so. My N1 has flipped touch points on me even when I’m not using multi-touch, requiring me to force close all apps before clicking Home before it goes back to normal.
@brainwires it’s been already proven that it’s HTC hardware even by Google themselves.
The app only has one major function to locate your finger on the device the rest is the based on the N1 feed back. (there isn’t a bug in the app because it does the same thing on other htc devices).
Now how to correct it is the real issue here.
@optikalefxx good luck doing it in a game or a very touch interactive application. :/
Thanks!
Over time you learn to master pinch with one hand only. I rest the phone on fingers and with my index finger and thumb I can do the
motion. Use it all the time.
the app has problems for nexus one… most likely,..
btw this guy sounds like larry david haha
agreed 100%
I tried the same app you are using and an App called “Multi Touch Visualizer”. I’d say there is some issue with this app. It has compatibility issues with N1. The Multi Touch Visualizer test works fine with N1. Far as I know, N1 has a better touch sensor grid than Droid..