{"id":177026,"date":"2010-01-13T14:52:25","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T19:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mobilecrunch.com\/?p=24923"},"modified":"2010-01-13T14:52:25","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T19:52:25","slug":"most-motorola-handsets-will-have-multitouch-from-here-on-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/177026","title":{"rendered":"Most Motorola handsets will have multitouch from here on out"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Deploying multitouch on handsets in the US is.. well.. touchy. Patents and licensing issues scare a number of hardware manufacturers away from deploying it, even when the hardware itself supports it. Take the Motorola Droid for example; the European variant, the Milestone, packed multitouch support out of the box, whilst the US Droid was limited to one finger’s worth of input at a time.<\/p>\n

Some hardware makers — Palm and HTC, to name a few — have the chutzpah to look at these patents and scoff them off as the nonsense they are, either rolling out their own multi-touch technology or just daring someone to pull them into court for it. It looks like Motorola might<\/em> be about to do the same.<\/p>\n

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In an interview with Laptop Magazine<\/a>, Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha had this to say:<\/p>\n

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I think you will see us deliver multitouch in the majority of our devices going forward. There\u2019s a complex set of factors, not all of them technical. But I think you\u2019ll see us being proactive on multitouch because the user feedback on multitouch is very good.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So there you have it – Motorola will support multitouch on the “majority” of their devices from here on out. Sure, this could very well mean “the majority of our devices [outside of the US]“, but considering that Sanjay specifically mentions the non-technical factors — that is, the aforementioned licensing holdups, which really only apply in the US — we’ve got hope.<\/p>\n

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