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hey guys it's joe from pocketnow.com and you guys have heard me compare the new g2 to the nexus one is being the next generation of that device or a nexus one with a keyboard which i really think it is well that got one of our readers thinking this is mitchell who sent me an email and he said hey what about the digitizer the multi-touch input panel on the g2 how does it fare compared to some of the problems that we've had in the past with the same on the nexus one it's a good question let's go look ok to start out some vocabulary and some history multi-touch is the availability or the ability to touch a touch screen in more than one location at the same time this is nice for pinch to zoom in and to zoom out and there are some other things that you can do in the but those are the main things you want to be able to pinch to zoom in and back out again when Android first hit the scene they didn't have multitouch and that was kind of a gentleman's agreement as we understand with Apple because Apple wanted that exclusivity on their devices the ipods the iphones and whatnot so later on multi-touch was added in and this is an app that you can get free in the market called yet another multi-touch tester when they implemented that on the nexus one some people argue that they did it wrong where they didn't have the right kind of hardware to support multitouch so let's take a look I'm going to tap up here in the corner and you can see under my finger a little bit I've got a little blue dot you see that down there and then it also shows me the grid lines of where that intersection point is do the same thing down here in the bottom now I've got a red dot under my finger just hiding under there so you can't see it and again those grid lines now when I come up here and cross them they kind of stick together and then as I pass oh you see that they hand it off wrong so now my finger doesn't have any touch point underneath it it thinks that I'm touching way over to the right where I'm on the left and down on the bottom way over to the left where I'm on right so to show you that again tap tap cross sometimes it works just fine other times it doesn't hand off very well and to add another finger into the mix there's no third point so it's just two points so let's see how this does on the g2 and answer Mitchell's question I'm going to go ahead and unlock the g2 same app from the market touch the first point touch the second point and cross and there's no hesitation there as I go past them and I can go around and I don't have any problem at all other than smudging up my screen a bit with those points getting confused now you saw another line there just for a minute that's because i was using more of my finger to touch and that got me thinking ok so we know one works we know two works what about three and four so let's do it this way two and two sure enough we have four points that it recognizes and it's kind of hard to do this on camera but if you've got a g2 go ahead and try this yourself you can see it actually actively tracks four points on the screen which is really cool that's a lot of points to pinch and zoom kind of difficult to do on a small screen such as this but you can do it and I'm not having any of those problems that we've had with the nexus one on the new g2 so thank you for the email mitchell that's awesome i love your input make sure that all you guys speaking to the entire audience now are subscribed to our YouTube channel so you can stay up to date on new stuff as we find out about it you're not left out at the water cooler subscribe to that channel thumbs up this video if you'd like to see other types of videos like this and of course leave us comments that's the only way we can give you the information that you want then that's what we're all about showing off multi touch capabilities on the g2 comparing that to the nexus one I'm Joe for pocket now calm