Optical Joystick (Trackpad?)

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I've see much vids of Desire but none of them reveal the capabilities of the new joystick. What are its functions, is it more close to joystick or a trackpad?

its like the trackball of the other android devices, just optical -> u can slide over it....and if u hold your finger on the optic sensor u can klick with it, somebody said in a video that u'll get hardware feedback when using the optical joy

edit: at 0:30

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLjsE...eature=related

Yeah I saw that vid. Simple swiping and clicking can be done with touch screen either. A demonstration of more precise operations is needed.

Originally Posted by djet

Yeah I saw that vid. Simple swiping and clicking can be done with touch screen either. A demonstration of more precise operations is needed.

What more precise operations?

Thats all you're going to do with it lol, swiping and clicking.

Originally Posted by brummiesteven

What more precise operations?

Thats all you're going to do with it lol, swiping and clicking.

A real joystick or a real trackpad allows much more than swiping and clicking.
For example, you can hold a joystick direction to trigger autorepeat or make really fast movements without taking finger off.

it's an optical trackball, for want of a better term.

In the same way that you get optical mice as opposed to a mouse with a ball in the bottom. The optical trackpad is simply an optical version of the scroll ball... in other words, same functions as the regular scroll ball without the moving parts.

Originally Posted by djet

A real joystick or a real trackpad allows much more than swiping and clicking.
For example, you can hold a joystick direction to trigger autorepeat or make really fast movements without taking finger off.

Would this be your first android device?

You don't really need to do that in android, I don't think I ever have on the G1

Originally Posted by brummiesteven

Would this be your first android device?

You don't really need to do that in android, I don't think I ever have on the G1

It would be usefull in some apps like games or emulators.

there may be an option to add shortcuts when clicking at home screen......like one tab go to appA two tabs go to appB...dunno some imagination:P