Earlier this year (January 09), Apple Inc. was granted a patent for multi-touch on mobile phones.  Earlier this month (November 7, 09), the 'do-it-all' Motorola Droid dumped that patent on it's head!

A Google search for "Apple multitouch patent" reveals a slew of articles, most of which lambaste Apple as a flesh eating fun buzzard, discussing this controversial patent awarding.  As a friend of mine so eloquently put it - "You can't patent walking, so why should you be able to patent a finger movement"?

Regardless of whether or not this patent is warranted... Motorola put the technology into the phone.  As to avoid a stream of lawsuits, they've not enabled it.  Nor have they made their applications finger flipin' friendly.  However, this gent shows us how it can be done:

Mad props to him!  Now I'm going to go get me a Droid.