Windows Mobile Louisville

Touch Diamond owners will know that the navi-wheel on the front of the device is capacitive, and can measure movement without actually rotating.  Like many HTC devices, it seems the Touch Diamond and Pro have hidden features, and pretty tasty ones indeed.  Using an application called Nav Debug Tool by HTC, this video (link below) shows not only is the navi-wheel capacitive, but that the whole front of the device can track finger movements, and even two fingers independently.

So far there is no known feature on the Touch Diamond/Pro that exploits this, but once the folks at xda-developers get their hands on the API, it won’t be long!

This also promises that even current generation devices with resistive screens will be able to take advantage of multi-touch features in WM7.

Video (via wmpoweruser.com)

Tags: Diamond, HTC, multi touch, resistive

This entry was posted on Wednesday, August 20th, 2008 at 12:13 pm and is filed under Hardware News, The Latest. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.