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It look like HTC did some fancy trick to make multi-touch available on a whole lot of Windows Mobile applications (that don’t natively support it) as seen in…

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It look like HTC did some fancy trick to make multi-touch available on a whole lot of Windows Mobile applications (that don’t natively support it) as seen in the video below showing some HTC HD2 pinch-zooming action in the Pocket Informant application. We’ve already seen the same thing in a previous video (here) where pinch-zooming was working in IGO Navigator. I’m guessing that it’s a frame buffer trick as it is similar to the way pinch-zooming is achieved in the video app of the HD2.

Longer video with more apps (Opera Mobile ,mail etc..):

Looks like HTC’s mail applications uses Opera Mobile’s engine to render the mail and enable pinch-zooming.

Update: More videos here

Source: YouTube & YouTube via PocketPC.ch

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