Comments on: Multi-Touch on the G1 (VIDEO)

By: Apple: Don’t Touch Me, Google: Okay | Android Phone Fans

Apple: Don’t Touch Me, Google: Okay | Android Phone Fans — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:08:19 +0000

[...] Android platform is Multi-Touch capability. That’s not entirely true – we’ve not only seen multi-touch on the G1 but we can also hack multi-touch on the G1 ourselves. But out of the box, Android does NOT support [...]

By: Android News Roundup | Android Phone Fans

Android News Roundup | Android Phone Fans — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:19:58 +0000

[...] and Android don’t have multi-touch function build in – in fact they have it commented out – we’ve seen before that Multi-touch is certainly possible. In a nod to the power of open source, Luke Hutchinson has [...]

By: Jo

Jo — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:04:50 +0000

comments out because th HW does not support it ‘period’. HTC’s fault. maybe to reduce the cost or their suply in taipei gave them the wrong stuff.

By: fluxa

fluxa — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:45:16 +0000

great work. thank you!

By: Leslie Owusu-Appiah

Leslie Owusu-Appiah — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:04:50 +0000

@MB: – I would guess that they commented it out due to the non-optimal performance Luke demonstrated (not because of threats from a fruit flavoured company like some have rumoured).

By: MB

MB — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:47:50 +0000

why did Google have to comment it out?

By: Crater

Crater — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:54:46 +0000

This is terrific. Maybe google, or a dev, will get this to work in things like google maps so that we can not have to use those plus and minus buttons.