Throwing fuel on the Nexus One and Motorola Droid multitouch fire

Update: OK, OK. I get it. I've been learned a thing or three over this one. So have at me in the comments, call me a bad person, throw things at my dog, whatever. I only hope one day we'll wake up an our long national multitouch nightmare will be over. :P

Let the debate continue! Earlier this week we saw a pretty damning video that illustrated how multitouch on the Motorola Droid was "better" than on the Nexus One, or that the Nexus One's multitouch is "broken." That was shown with and app called Multitouch Visible Test.

Here's our own unscientific test using a different app, called MultiTouch Visualizer. While it actually runs a little more smoothly on the Droid, it doesn't have nearly the same problem tracking multiple points on the Nexus One that Multitouch Visible Test had.

So what do we take away from this, aside from finding a bug in an app? So long as multitouch works well in the app in which you need it, we wouldn't worry too much. But you don't have to take our word for it. You can download Multitouch Visable Test and MultiTouch Visualizer from the Android Market and try it yourself.

Phil Nickinson