Updated. A press release I just got from Synaptics, the makers of the Storm's touch screen, is promising all sorts of fabulous stuff. "The Storm features multi-finger input capability that allows simultaneous two-finger texting," they write. Also, "Coupled with dual tactile feedback, the button will push in slightly and provide localized haptics (vibration) to ensure precision." I'm really going to have to get some quality time with this thing to find the true secrets of its touch screen.

Original post. Here's a mystery about the BlackBerry Storm: Is it multi-touch?

In its press release, RIM says the new BlackBerry Storm is multi-touch. And today I got an email from RIM claiming that they're going to use multi-touch for copying and pasting text on the device. (Notice: they're using multi-touch, a famous iPhone feature, to do something the iPhone can't do.)

But when I, Rich Brome from Phone Scoop, and Matt Buchanan from Gizmodo all got demos of the device, we didn't see any multi-touch capability. Matt remarks, correctly, that the gesture for copying and pasting we saw in our demos was a long press and hold, not multi-touch.

RIM had plenty of opportunities to show off multi-touch in the three meetings. But it didn't. It's an odd question that's floating out there--maybe the demo devices they had didn't have multi-touch enabled yet?--and it's a question that will have to be solved in the final reviews.