Google enables multi touch in Android for Nexus One

A recent update to Google’s Nexus One phone brings a feature Android users have been waiting for for quite some time now. While it won’t be available for all Android phones, Google’s phone will now support multi touch, including the popular pinch to zoom functionality of the iPhone. Support for this feature will be extended into the browser, photo gallery, and maps applications.

The update also improved upon existing features and added other news ones, but multitouch has certainly shadowed those for now. Up until now, Google’s applications haven’t supported it at all, making them more difficult to work with when compared to the iPhone. Now that Google has brought their phone up to par, the competition may become ever closer.

As we see Google and Apple getting more and more competitive with each other in the mobile phone business and app marketplace (and maybe mobile ads, someday), it’s getting interesting. While Apple was the first to have an App Store, and while that App Store is far more extensive than any others, Google is making progress slowly but surely. Minus the extremely fragmented (and in some cases, lacking) hardware, Google is getting closer and closer to proving, once again, that open eventually catches up in comparison to Apple’s closed marketplace.

To see who will come out on top, tune in next week (or next year… or longer), folks.

Via [TechCrunch]