“Multitouch” can mean many things. If you want to get technical, the Opera browser introduced two-button mouse commands years ago, which required two physical buttons to be touched simultaneously.

While we’re at it, why not take it to the interaction of the hand and the screen to manipulate programs? That was patented under the creation of the Light Pen.

Before Apple goes after HTC about multitouch, they need to address their own lawsuit defense of patent 7,274,353 by Elan Microelectronics, who claims multitouch was patented by them in 2007.

Suing a company before you define that you have the legal rights to the technology? Congratulations, Apple – you have finally become the monster that you have always accused Microsoft of being.

Winmo7 is a good start, but it must be fully customizable, slim, responsive, light weight, power saver, snappy and dependable.
I need a device with borderless LCD, a device that have full language support both on the handset side and on the PC side, I need a stable internet browser, music organizer with efficient media player and controls (must support all kind of audio & Video), FM radio, 5Mpx Camera, a device that let me download anything from the web then drag them to PC and vice versa with no fuss, a device with world maps preloaded, a device that can display Day, Date and Time without having to terminate calls or quit music just to see what is the time like the infamous HTC Diamond, a device that let me open, edit and save all kind of files like word documents, excel, PDF, audio and video.
Thank you.

Android is an open source OS with an already active and vibrant community of developers who have proven the ability to deliver reliable and, in many cases, superior mods to the OS. Even if Apple won, we’d only see a more active dev community and probably even more mods that quickly win back any ground lost because of the patent suit.

So, all the handset manufacturers could start shipping “stock Android” builds on kick ass hardware which users could quickly root and install mods that do whatever the hell the user wants. Apple will find it impossible to stop this because you can’t hit what you can’t see – the beauty of community driven development. Heck, Apple can’t even stop jailbroken iPhones.

What I love about my Droid is that it’s not an iPhone. I’ve owned two iPhones and now it’s as if EVERYONE has an iPhone. There’s no cool/unique factor anymore since I swear every other person I see has one. And they all look the same, black or white. ZZzzzZzzzz. The gap is quickly closing as people see there are alternatives.

Quite frankly because in the US its not the patent offices job to validate a patent. Its the court system. They keep granting nutty patents and defend it with that if its not a correct patent, it will be torn up in court.
Problem is that its so bloody expensive to drag it through court, that never ever happens. Everyone just settles out of court since its cheaper for them.
And remember, several of these patents are world wide. ;)