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Re:Phone Review » Nexus S » Ugly, Buggy, Slow by cmelbye on Friday December 17, 2010 @09:26AM (#2016261)
Not only that, but no one has been able to nail the physics of it either. The elastic snap back at the top of lists (I'm not sure if Android has this, but the cheap Samsung phones do) is very unnatural, and slow.
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Re:Phone Review » Nexus S » Ugly, Buggy, Slow by snsr on Friday December 17, 2010 @10:29AM (#2016461)
Interestingly, the patent describes moving a document with an object (finger) "on or near" the touchscreen.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...

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Re:Phone Review » Nexus S » Ugly, Buggy, Slow by icegreentea on Friday December 17, 2010 @09:40AM (#2016299)
Andriods don't use the elastic band effect. 2.3 apparently has a new effect where as you approach the end of a list, the background starts changing colour slightly. This continues as you try scrolling past the end. Anandtech says it's vaguely reminiscent of watching stressed plastic.
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