G1 is multi-touch capable

[TheMessiah]

Folks I know this might stir up some controversies however, I just stumbled upon some evidence that the G1 is hardware capable of mutli-touch or pinch to zoom.

First of, for the iphone lovers out there I would like to reiterate that Apple did not invent the pinch to zoom. It was a company called Synaptics, you can find this technology on your good old laptop called the touchpad.

However, Apple did copy these gestures ( Not the technology because the iphone sensors is glass and not plastic unlike the touchpads ) as they always do, and put on the iphone and itouch and called it "multi-touch" and patented the hell out of it from the mouth of Steve Jobs.

By the way Synaptics is part of 34 companies that make up the Open Handset Alliance.


PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK ------> http://www.synaptics.com/solutions/t...tures/touchpad
The video is the 3rd one down.


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T-Mobile G1 (Multi-touch demo)


Thanks,

Gerry-

[K.Krstnsn]

ya i was messing with my icons like that one the first day i got the phone.. i didnt really put 2 and 2 together. but i had heard it had the hardware.

[jrokwitdacapitals18]

umm that video showed no evidence . And yea I heard it does have MT but for some stupid reason they didn't include it . So that only means one thing.......app

[almightyA]

it might be multitouch capable, but my understanding is that apple has a trademark/copyright (although i doubt copyright) on the function of two-touch zoom

[ynp7]

it might be multitouch capable, but my understanding is that apple has a trademark/copyright (although i doubt copyright) on the function of two-touch zoom

The word you're looking for is "patent."

[TheMessiah]

umm that video showed no evidence . And yea I heard it does have MT but for some stupid reason they didn't include it . So that only means one thing.......app

Well thats the thing it is patented for like 20 years!! So thats why they can not mention "multi-touch" URGGHH this really erks me....

I have a feeling that Apple knew that Google was coming out with a mobile OS and made sure to patent the "multi-touch" technology so that it could be exclusive only to APPLE!!!

[K.Krstnsn]

i hate how people patent stuff like that. BTW doesnt MS surface zoom like that?

[DreamcastDC]

Nice I hope some programmer will make a Multi-touch API for the Android OS...

[felixHcat]

That's not multi-touch.

That's just point to point averaging... aka buggy single touch.

I do believe the hardware is capable tho... we'll have to wait to find out.

[ministersin]

As with the other post, this does not show multi-touch functionality. It shows you can confuse the surface by having more than one contact point on the surface. It will constantly switch back and forth and snap from one to the other, but it is not multi-touch.

ALL touch screens are multi-touch in that the rest of the screen doesn't just stop working because you have touched it in one spot.

Multi-touch is about being able to consistently interpret data from more than one entry point, and that, I assure you, is not part of the HTC Dream hardware.