You'll also be able to crop, as well as pinch to zoom in order to focus attention.
It is one possible step along the road to pinch-to-zoom, but it is definitely not pinch-to-zoom itself.
Viewers can pinch to zoom, or use a flip motion to easily navigate between Smart Hub panels.
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Scroll with two fingers, pinch to zoom in and out of images, swipe to flip through pages or photos.
You can keep swiping through your images or even pinch to zoom out and view all your images in a filmstrip view.
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The demo required the assistance of an Alienware laptop, and the pinch to zoom function was a little wonky to say the least.
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Pinch to zoom isn't a feature either, so trying to enlarge text or small web buttons to make selections are a no go.
Some of those mobile gestures are making their way to the desktop think of the way you can pinch to zoom on a trackpad now.
Like we said before: no pinch to zoom, but given the shape and texture of the surface, we're not sure we could pull it off even if the software allowed for it.
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As the name implies, it's all based around pressure: a light touch performs the usual commands, while squishing the thumb's wider surface area against the screen allows the equivalent of a multi-touch gesture, such as a pinch to zoom.
We don't know if we'd ever come to use tilt-zoom over the tried and tested pinch-to-zoom functionality -- which is naturally also present here -- but the Galaxy S II makes zooming of any kind a pleasure to behold.
When it did manage to load, we tested pinch-to-zoom which briskly resized the selected image and text.
This is of course a way to disguise the lack of pinch-to-zoom functionality, but it actually works pretty well as a single-handed operation on a small device anyway.
The new Office is designed to work best on Windows 8 and is clearly designed for tablets, featuring responsiveness to Touch (including the ability to swipe your finger across the screen or pinch and zoom to read your documents and presentations), Inking, as well as new Windows 8 applications.
Browser performance was much of the same, as pages loaded in about 20 seconds and then took a while to re-render when we attempted pinch-to-zoom.
Specifically, Samsung wants to know if Apple licensed any of the patents that it was found to have infringed including the bounce-back and pinch-to-zoom patents.
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Speaking of those gestures, we found pinch-to-zoom and two-finger scrolling to be incredibly responsive.
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And equally as impressive was pinch-to-zoom, which responded immediately to our touch with nary an instance of checkerboarding.
But those looking for more advanced features, options and control over the image, or even just pinch-to-zoom, should probably look elsewhere.
Since there's no pinch-to-zoom, you're stuck using the on-screen buttons or double-tapping, which in our experience didn't work as flawlessly as we would've liked.
When you go into the doc itself, you can use pinch-to-zoom (and with the iPhone's screen, this feature will definitely be used immediately upon entrance).
Now, we can live with a browser or Google Maps with no pinch-to-zoom, but not having a hardware keyboard hamstrings this device in other ways.
The Kin additionally shares the Zune HD's browser engine, a hybrid of IE 7 and 8 that features pinch-to-zoom but has no support for Flash or Silverlight.
As the perfect combination e-reader, media player and portable computing device, HTC EVO View 4G offers a 7-inch 1024 x 600 touchscreen display with pinch-to-zoom for a premium entertainment experience with HD-quality video and rich Web browsing experience.
Earlier, the judge refused to block sales of the infringing products in the United States after she said Apple failed to show consumer demand for the Samsung devices was driven by the purloined technology, including the "pinch-to-zoom" function.
There's a reason, of course -- the current e-ink technology is simply not built for web browsing -- the page refreshes a lot during scrolling, images don't look great and in the case of the Kobo, there's no pinch-to-zoom, so you've got to rely on an ever-present slider on the bottom to make things larger.
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Using this mode allows you to easily review the shots you're taking at a macro level, with the ability to pinch-and-zoom in tight on images to inspect minute details.
The retooled software offers a touch mode that makes several of its controls bigger so they are more finger-friendly as well as including the ability to swipe and pinch-and-zoom documents.
Top-end processors make the newly-designed browser fast, simple and smooth to surf favourite sites with a tap, pinch and zoom.
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