So The T-Mobile G1 CAN Do Multi-Touch…
The lack of multi-touch support is one of the few things that makes the G1 seem a little simple compared to the iPhone’s pinch-and-pull happy interface, but MobileCrunch reports that some super-hacker has burrowed deep into the software and found it possible!
After recompiling the kernel, reversing the polarity and getting the 1.21 gigawatts necessary (or something), RyeBrye managed to track simultaneous finger presses at the same time!
The fact that Apple have patented most of the swiping and poking interfaces might make some sense of why the G1 doesn’t currently support it. But who’s to say some enterprising individual won’t put up an app on the ‘open’ Marketplace, allowing that very thing?
All it would need then is some apps to support it, and another reason to favour the iPhone over the G1 evaporates!
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Your title – So The T-Mobile G1 CAN Do Multi-Touch… | G1 News – caught my eye on the google blogsearch page. Just goes to show you how important good titles are!
I’ve added http://www.g1-news.com to my reader, so I can see what else you come up with
[...] We reported about this earlier, the clever TyeBrye was able to get multi-touch working on the G1, but his site was a mass of text explaining in excruciating detail exactly what he had done. [...]
hi…
Not sure that this is true) but thanks…