ryebrye.com - 11/18/2008
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So there has been a lot of speculation about if the G1 screen can handle multitouch or not. Most of the people claiming it can handle it have posted links to some crazy videos showing it doing some kind of thing inside of android - but that approach doesn’t hold much weight with me. If [...]
mobilecrunch.com - 11/18/2008
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mobilecrunch.com —
Whenever the G1 vs iPhone debate gets underway,
iPhone purists are quick to flag the G1’s lack...
of multi-touch input support. Turns out, it might just be able to handle it after all -on the hardware end, at least. Whilst tearing his G1’s ...
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G1 capable of multi-touch input? Looks like it.
intomobile.com - 11/23/2008
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intomobile.com —
I’ve been hearing rumblings over the past little
while. Rumblings that hidden somewhere within all that lovely...
code that makes up the Android OS is the capability to make multi-touch a reality on the G1. Low-and-behold, this morning when I ...
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Video Proof of Concept: Multi-Touch on the T-Mobile G1
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G1 capable of multi-touch input? Looks like it.
CrunchGear —
... Whenever the G1 vs iPhone debate gets underway, iPhone purists are quick to flag the G1’s lack of multi-touch input support. Turns out, it might just be able to handle it after all - on the hardware end, at least. Whilst tearing his G1’s workings apart line-by-line, a crafty coder going by RyeBrye came across an interesting artifact. It seems the driver for the Synaptics touchscreen has some code commented out; after recompiling the kernel with said code back in, he was able to track two finger presses at once. ...
The G1's Deepest, Darkest Secret: Hidden Multitouch [Rumor]
Gizmodo —
... Some resourceful folks at the #android IRC channel and RyeBrye, after realizing that the G1's Synaptics touch screen might be able to handle multiple inputs, say they were able to re-enable some commented-out code in the phone's touchscreen driver and log some multitouch gestures. The lack of multitouch in the first Android phone was a minor disappointment, albeit an understandable one — encroaching on Apple's ...
G1 screen can handle multi-touch
Mobility Site —
... Being Android a SO based on Linux it was not a big surprise to see a lot of developers going deep to find all kind of secrets hidden in the source code. According to this post, the T-Mobile G1, or at least part of them, can handle multi-touch. ...
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