And all the neat multi-touch gestures could end up being helpful once we learn how to use them.
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Mac experts, for instance, can be seen using keystrokes and multi-touch gestures to move from app to app and trigger other OS-level actions.
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The touchpad is still useful for certain multi-touch gestures, though, including Windows 8-specific ones like swiping in from the left to toggle through open applications.
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Multi-touch gestures, an app store, home screens, full-screen apps, the ability to auto save your work, and resume apps where the user left off when they launch again.
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Giving users the power to work with digital tools in a completely natural and intuitive way, multi-touch supports gestures for rotating canvases, zooming and panning.
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Powered by the Android 2.1 platform, Samsung Epic 4G also supports a series of advanced touch screen gestures including multi-touch pinch, long tap and zoom and vertical and horizontal swiping.
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The second mode of the panel functions as a highly sensitive, multi-touch trackpad with intuitive gestures built-in, offering an alternative method of navigating games or PC desktops.
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The touchscreen monitor prototype is capable of 10-point multi-touch option, allowing users to perform multiple gestures at once simply by touching the screen, which is especially useful for portraying and interfacing with images, graphics, complex visual elements or architectural designs.
"Traditionally tablet and phone devices have needed to make a design compromise: choosing between multi-touch, capacitive glass that is responsive to fingertip gestures, or using a resistive display more suitable for stylus input that requires sacrifices in contrast, wear and tear, and need for calibration, " Gittleman said.
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For instance, while the Instinct is a touch-screen device, it lacks the iPhone's "multi-touch" system, which includes features that recognize multiple fingers and gestures, and allows actions like shrinking a photo by "pinching" it.
It's multi-touch capabilities also provide users the option to quickly and easily rotate canvases on screen using gestures, perfect for illustration, sketching and painting.
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