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Originally Posted by Jon Westfall
I listed it as a Con because I felt that with such an emphasis on touch-centric add-ons, Samsung could have tried to include something like this in the hardware and software end. Normally OEMs and device designers don't add the hardware for multi-touch to their WM handsets because WM doesn't natively support it. However with Samsung re-writing and adding to the touch capabilities so considerably, it seems to me they had a better shot at adding this in than other manufacturers have had.
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That is a good point. At the same time though, multitouch is no simple feature to implement. Even if Samsung wanted to I don't think MS would let them. It would lead to the kind of proprietary-ness that plagued palm os. We don't want each device manufacturer implementing their own multitouch API for programmers to support. If Microsoft worked with them though and standardized the API then it would be a win. I guess that could be a likely senario.
On that note, do the HTC devices and Omnia share the same accelerometer API? That is to say does an app like gsen that works on the diamond and pro work on the Omnia?