Droid Gets Multi-Touch for Google Maps

Still upset that your Motorola Droid lacks multi-touch support for native apps?  Well you will be happy to hear that the Droid now offers multi-touch features in the native Google Maps application.  More likely than not this will be the first of many apps offering this support functionality since the device was made with multi-touch in mind.

Engaget broke the story and had this to say about the announcement: Google has turned loose a new version of Google Maps that enables pinch-to-zoom support on the Droid. Of course, it was no secret that Android 2.0 had the framework in place to support this kind of stuff — Moto enabled it all by its lonesome on the Euro-spec Milestone — but it looks like this could be the watershed moment where multitouch finally becomes a must-have feature on Android devices across the board, as Moto CEO Sanjay Jha recently suggested would happen.