Gesture support really does add value to the mobile experience. Come on Google, get with the program...
The browser has to be one of our most heavily used applications on our phone, and after a month with the Nexus One we finally got around to addressing the issue of multi-touch support. The native Browser application that ships with the Nexus One does a fairly decent job of bringing the internet to its 3.7 inch screen despite lacking multi-touch. Sites that have been optimised for mobile apps reduce the need for too much zooming in and out, and the auto-zoom feature also does a fairly good job of making the browsing of non-optimised sites less painful. Even so we’ve found the +- magnifying glass solution fairly cumbersome at times. As Andy Rubin, Google’s VP of Engineering pointed out in his it does allow you to browse the internet using just one hand, but we couldn’t find many other reasons why we’d prefer this style of browsing over multi-touch. But since Android has multi-touch gesture support built in we thought we’d have a go at enabling it to find out what we’re missing out on.
The Dolphin Browser
