T-Mobile capable of multi-touch?

[secrecyguy]

OMG! G1 is capable of mulit-touch! I have no idea!

How come no one says this! You are the first guys to bring this information out to us!

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Come on guys... you wrote the article as if we have no idea that G1 has multi-touch.

We all know G1 is capable of multi-touch and the only reason Google did not activate it on their G1 is because of the patents Apple have.

I am sure Google would love to have multi-touch but unable to do so. Now it's up to 3rd parties if they are willing to take on the project to make G1 capable of doing multi-touch and is willing to face a lawsuit with Apple.

[ministersin]

Originally Posted by secrecyguy

OMG! G1 is capable of mulit-touch! I have no idea!

How come no one says this! You are the first guys to bring this information out to us!

(end of scaresom (spelling?))

Come on guys... you wrote the article as if we have no idea that G1 has multi-touch.

We all know G1 is capable of multi-touch and the only reason Google did not activate it on their G1 is because of the patents Apple have.

I am sure Google would love to have multi-touch but unable to do so. Now it's up to 3rd parties if they are willing to take on the project to make G1 capable of doing multi-touch and is willing to face a lawsuit with Apple.

The G1 is NOT capable of multi-touch. I don't know where this "everybody knows" crap comes from.
Synaptics touch screens have multi-touch capability, IF the manufacturer ordering the hardware pays extra to have the gestures supported on the equipment.


Multi-touch is determined by the Enhanced Gesture Recognition, and a multi-touch screen requires more system resources. Since the API does not include multi-touch at this time, the EGR for multi-touch would only cost HTC more and use up additional resources that are not required for the system.

http://www.synaptics.com/solutions/technology/gestures
http://www.synaptics.com/solutions/t...y/gestures/egr
and even a PDF on it:
http://www.synaptics.com/sites/defau...estures_pb.pdf

Even if Android plans to offer a multi-touch system they would roll out new hardware capable of it at that time, leaving previous hardware that does not meet the requirements on previous builds.

Look...I promise you...the HTC Dream, The T-Mobile G1 will NEVER be capable of multi-touch. At least not the one you are holding in your hand. They could produce new ones I suppose, but I'm sure they'll just move on to a new model.

As much as we talk about it, try to understand patent law, or show YouTube videos of people double tapping their solitare game (wtf?), it won't happen.

And that's OK. It's still a great phone.

Read the links.

Like John Stamos says...the more you know.
And then a star shoots across the screen