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Multitouch Comparison – Nexus One vs Motorola Droid

Posted by Droid March - 6 - 2010 - Saturday

multitouch - Nexus one vs Droid

If you are a lucky owner of Nexus One, you might be aware of an issue with the screen sensor – it doesn’t always recognise touches correctly. During the experiment, which compares Motorola Milestone (Droid) with Google Nexus One, visible differences in touch processing were identified.

It turns out that not all multitouch screens work the same way. Journalists from Android and Me published a video, which demonstrates the processing of simultaneous screen touches. Special software was created by one of the Android game developers to perform the test.  The video first shows the Milestone – everything is normal here, all touches are processed correctly. When they try to perform the same test on Nexus One it behaves differently -  when you try to use two fingers, the smartphone ceases to understand where each finger is.

Developers who found the bug are hoping that it will be corrected with a firmware update. However, on one of the forums you can find a comment from one of Google’s engineers: “… this is an example of how the touchscreen works at the hardware level in Nexus One. Motorola uses a different sensor manufacturer.” HTC should be more careful when selecting hardware suppliers for its devices. As for Milestone owners, they seem to have nothing to worry about.

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