Eat your heart out ZuneHD – IE Mobile now supports multi-touch in HTC HD2
October 22nd, 2009 | 
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The above video by Techblog.gr clearly shows multi-touch in action on the built-in Internet Explorer Mobile, meaning the ZuneHD is no longer the only one with a multi-touch version of the browser. Performance also seems pretty snappy, for multi-touch zooming and also for rendering and screen rotation in general.
The accompanying picture shows the the HTC HD2 next to the Toshiba TG01 and the iPhone, and shows the device to be significantly smaller than the TG01, despite having a larger screen, and not much bigger than the iPhone, despite having a much, much larger screen.
Now if only HTC could get around to releasing the device…
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I don't know if I agree with your size comparisons. It doesn't look significantly smaller than the Toshiba. It's just a little shorter. And maybe putting the Toshiba in between skews things, but it looks a lot bigger than the iPhone. I know it's only 6mm bigger in each dimension, but that picture is making me think it might just be too big.
It's not like they needed a 4.3 inch screen; 4 would have been more than fine. I'm starting to think that the HD2 is a concept device that they're releasing to the market anyway.
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Yes, but what you've failed to explain is that Multitouch on the Leo is all done by HTC; Windows mobile 6.5 explicitly doesn't support multitouch. Therefore, this is more a credit to HTC's software engineering skills than it is to Internet Explorer mobile, as this was HTC's doing, not Microsoft's.
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Is it me or the screen seems to be a little bit blue and doesn't show colors properly?
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There were still what looked like missed responses to touches in various parts of the video, as I've seen on many previous Leo videos. I'm used to this on my HD, when the device is doing something else, but I'd hoped it wouldn't be so noticeable on this device.
They (and I) also seemed a bit surprised that they couldn't zoom out on IE either, but getting any multitouch to work is impressive, as people have said above.
I imagine that it will ship with Opera which will hopefully have a more embedded implementation of the multitouch.
Anyway, it's looking great, certainly the best looking WM device out there. The TG-01 doesn't really seem to have taken off.
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I'm going to shoot a load when i'm migrating from my 2.8" diamond screen to this beauty.
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4inch?! LOLOLOLZZZ THAT'Z SO LAST GENN DURRRR 4inch WOULD BE FINE IF YOU'RE A TODDLER LOLZOLLZOLBBQ
Seriously, i wish HTC would come out with a 5incher for the HD3 just to piss those people who complain about the size.
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That's what I fear most on HTC devices. They always get their screens from 2 or more different manufacturers and one of them makes these all blue screens. Even in the days of the old blue angel, my friend's device had one of these screens and mine was OK. I saw touch HDs with this screen too. And the worst part is, you can't make sure which screen you're getting when you buy the devie :-S
of course, there may be something wrong with their camera, let's hope that's the case.
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at least the photo with the iphone and TG01 seems to show the screen OK !
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I think he was trying to zoom out when it was on maximum zoon already. I expect Opera will work the same in the same zoom level, but I liked that it had the spring effect to show that it was actually registering your effect too zoom out further than it would go.
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The colours on all 3 three screens look a little 'washed out' to me – I wonder if the photo was taken with an HD2! ;-p
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Yes I was concerned about the apparent lack of responsiveness at times. I expect it on the Touch HD but I thought the capacitive screen and CPU were supposed to sort that out on the HD2.
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its not a lack of response. just someone use to winmo…ON A RESISTIVE SCREEN!
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This is just great!
I still wouldn't be caught dead using Pocket IE anyway… and the fact that I think double-tapping is much easier than pinching to zoom is beside the point.
Also, how come the iPhone looks five times brighter than the other two devices? Is it the angle of the photo, different brightness settings on each device or what?
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This Device is sooooo cool. I could test it with a actually german rom and multitouch works great also in IE. Can't wait to buy the final Version
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the angle is surely important but iphone's screen is generally brighter than average
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This really makes the TG01 look bad.
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Exactly. This isn't IE supporting multitouch, this is multitouch supporting IE.
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thats why you can clearly see its battery meter is on empty
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I know the iPhone has a right bright screen but it doesn't look that much better than other phones in person.
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