Did you know that the HTC Touch Diamond and Pro has got some really wicked hidden features. Using an application called Nav Debug Tool by HTC, the video shows that the whole front of the device can track finger movements, and even two fingers !!!!! The one thing iphone users brag about used to the multi touch, well we are going to get it soon enough.

So far there is no know feature on the Touch Diamond/ Pro that exploits this, but once the good folks @ xda-developers get their hands on the API it wont be too long. With features like multi touch and accelerometer , HTC Touch diamond and Touch Pro should be ready to be flashed with WM7 !!

Video (via wmpoweruser.com)

Source : xda-developers.com

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HTC Debug Tool

Update : ( 22/08/08 ) spacemonkey from MoDaCo tried this on his Diamond and gave this feedback

.. strictly speaking this isn’t multitouch, or not multitouch in the way that the apple looks at it. It’s single touch but split into 3 areas. Basically imagine the button area at the bottom of the diamond is split into 3 columns.

You have 3 single touch areas:
1) On the left with the home and dial buttons
2) In the middle tracking outside the circle or also detecting a touch (not a button press) inside the circle. If you finger touches both outside and inside the circle, outside the circle takes precedence
3) On the right with the back and hangup buttons.

The multitouch impression comes from the fact that all 3 of these single touch areas can be used simultaneously.

This doesn’t in my opinion open up brilliant options in terms of pinch to shrink spread to enlarge ala apple, but it does mean that a device fairly limited in terms of buttons could get a lot of good enhancements to useability.

Tags: Accelerometer, Multi Touch