G1 News » multi touch http://www.g1-news.com News, reviews, and all there is to know about the T-Mobile G1 and Google's Android Operating System! Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:44:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 So The T-Mobile G1 CAN Do Multi-Touch… http://www.g1-news.com/2008/11/18/so-the-g1-can-do-multi-touch/ http://www.g1-news.com/2008/11/18/so-the-g1-can-do-multi-touch/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:57:40 +0000 Ernest http://www.g1-news.com/?p=215 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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