Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-06 Thread Duvelle Jones
That On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 18:03 -0700, Shawn Rutledge wrote: They have no hope of preventing multi-touch itself from becoming the accepted mainstream, and then resistive touchscreens are probably going to be seen as obsolete. That is assuming that mainstream has an

Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-05 Thread Andy Green
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Somebody in the thread at some point said: On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ubiquitous zooming and rotating examples are not convincing me at all. They seem pretty cool to me. So... where

Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Duvelle Jones
Hi, tis me again. A little bit of forward thinking here. When I first came to OpenMoko it was a mid the torrent of the iPhone hype. I will admit that I was dissolution with the possibility that the multi-touch interface was an easy addition to OpenMoko. With some time to think and study the

Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread joerg
Am Di 4. März 2008 schrieb Duvelle Jones: I will admit that I was dissolution with the possibility that the multi-touch interface was an easy addition to OpenMoko. With some time to think and study the availability of the technology, I soon realized that my thinking on the matter was quite

Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Andrea Debortoli
I think this is an interesting reading about iphone multi-touch screen: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/iphone1.htm 2008/3/4, joerg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Di 4. März 2008 schrieb Duvelle Jones: I will admit that I was dissolution with the possibility that the multi-touch interface

Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
Hi guys, I have thought a bit about multitouch and its possible usecases and the longer I think about it the less exciting I find it on a mobile phone. The technology per se is great and I'm sure it will allow for great innovation among UI's on large monitors, tablets, and even desks.

Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Federico
So... where are those usecases that apply to a phone? maybe pressing the shift key for typing uppercase letters :P ___ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community

Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Al Johnson
On Tuesday 04 March 2008, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote: Hi guys, I have thought a bit about multitouch and its possible usecases and the longer I think about it the less exciting I find it on a mobile phone. The technology per se is great and I'm sure it will allow for great innovation

Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Ben Burdette
Federico wrote: So... where are those usecases that apply to a phone? maybe pressing the shift key for typing uppercase letters :P Or other chording based text entry schemes... ___ OpenMoko community mailing list

Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ubiquitous zooming and rotating examples are not convincing me at all. They seem pretty cool to me. So... where are those usecases that apply to a phone? How do you right-click on a touchscreen? The old way

Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Ortwin Regel
On 3/4/08, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I have thought a bit about multitouch and its possible usecases and the longer I think about it the less exciting I find it on a mobile phone. The technology per se is great and I'm sure it will allow for great innovation

Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
joerg ha scritto: I'm investigating to squeeze some multi-touch properties out of the GTA02 4wire-resistor touchscreen, by hacking the basics and probing the ts in a couple non-recommended completely different manners. There still is a little hope... What's your hope exactly? Do you have

Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Federico ha scritto: So... where are those usecases that apply to a phone? maybe pressing the shift key for typing uppercase letters :P Not so useful imho... We don't write so quickly on small-screen based devices to need a combination-input. For istance, the iPhone has not a such feature

Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Ortwin Regel ha scritto: If there will ever be a dedicated OpenMoko gaming device, it needs a multitouch screen. Well, yes I think it won't be possible to run games with an on-screen virtual gamepad as the iPhone/iPodTouch does. Do I am wrong? However, with a phone, even if it is a fully

Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also using a touch-only screen they don't loose their usability: the resize, mostly, could be done simply with a scroll, while the rotation This is kindof like saying what do you need a mouse for, your keyboard

Re: Multi-touch: Many questions to one desire....

2008-03-04 Thread joerg
Am Mi 5. März 2008 schrieb Marco Trevisan (Treviño): joerg ha scritto: I'm investigating to squeeze some multi-touch properties out of the GTA02 4wire-resistor touchscreen, by hacking the basics and probing the ts in a couple non-recommended completely different manners. There still is a