I also have this problem, so one up-vote.cPerhaps there is a workaround?

We'll probably tackle this post-1.0. The UI project has a branch that supports touch events for interactives that might be a good starting point.

I currently use an additional JavaScript file http://code.google.com/p/jquery-ui-for-ipad-and-iphone/ which works. But what's not possible (I do not know if iOS supports this), drag two elements simultaneously. I can only drag and drop one element.

I have created a small wrapper a long time ago to support touch events for drag&drop, sortables etc.

https://github.com/kof/labs/tree/master/touch

Here is a demo

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3872624/lab/touch/index.html

It works, but the problem is it is very slow, because we have to use css 3 transitions.

It whould be very easy to overwrite currently used top and left style properties if they would be done in separate method in every widget or centralized.

Closing and moving to the feature requests page for post-1.0:
https://github.com/jquery/jquery-mobile/wiki/Feature-Requests