Samsung handset gives new meaning to multi-touch

Well, this video is the gift that just keeps on giving.

It was shot at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona by Gizmodo’s Jesus Diaz and, while the footage gives the unfortunate initial impression of being edited for those with terminally short attention spans, you soon realise the reason for the fast cuts: though it runs for a mere 60 seconds, this clip shows dozens of instances of a Samsung touch-screen handset simply failing to register touches.

Time and time again the user stabs at the screen only to have his efforts flatly ignored by the handset. So exasperated does the movie-maker become that at one point he exclaims: "Man, this is f***ing bad".  We couldn’t agree more! Watch and endure.

UPDATE:One of Samsung's media representatives in Europe has contacted us to point out that the OmniaHD handset featured in Gizmodo's above video is not a final version and that, as such, it has bugs that need to be ironed out. The responsiveness of the touch-screen is apparently one such issue. Samsung's PR spokesperson also tells us that there were a number of other OmniaHD handsets on the Samsung booth that responded well and that Samsung feels it a shame that Gizmodo's Jesus Diaz did not use one of these. Obviously, we're more than happy to air both sides of the story and we're still looking forward to seeing a finished OmniaHD for ourselves.

[ Gizmodo]