You undergo that modify multi-touch feature that iPhone folks crow about? We’ll admit… it IS pretty cool. Did you undergo that G1 is confident of multi-touch, too? You belike didn’t and for beatific reason.

The Android OS has multi-touch capabilities cursive into it but they are commented out. For non-developers this effectuation the cipher is there, exists and entireness but is enwrapped with another cipher informing the OS not to separate or compass that code. We’re not trusty who initially figured this discover but a man feat by RyeBrye proven to establish it.

And he was successful.

According to RyeBrye he was healthy to alter said code, recompile the essence and the Android OS was confident of chase the function and state of 2 fingers on the touchscreen at the aforementioned time! Multi-touch it is! So the discourse is… if Multi-Touch exists, ground has it been unfit on the G1?

The most manifest existence here is that Apple’s patents on Multi-Touch profession prevented Google, HTC and T-Mobile from “going live” with Multi-Touch on the G1. But that’s meet a guess- nobody knows the genuine news behindhand it all.

A google employee unofficially spinous discover digit things that the primitive receptor strength not hit been healthy to:

• HTC has given that the G1 module hit a single-touch screen. (This is significant, because their description is for azygos contact for the G1, this effectuation that they could in the forthcoming maker touchscreens that are not multi-touch confident - so meet because a destined separate of G1s might have a multitouch confident screen, they hit the independency to switch discover parts [and they haw already hit G1s discover in the earth that don't hit a multi-touch confident screen])
• The another supply is with how the utility reports the breadth of the touch. It appears that the “w” surroundings is the aforementioned on both of the fingers (altough this strength meet be a quirk in the utility cipher that was commented discover - since it does seem to be supported on push and swing fingers on oppositeness corners and imperative gently ease shows a 1 for “w” - but placing 2 fingers near unitedly and imperative hornlike module exhibit a 15 for “w” - so I’m not every certain of this)

Now that every of this has embellish kinda public, hopefully we’ll intend whatever authorised aggregation as to the who-what-when-where-why of the G1 multi-touch amputation. What do YOU think?

[Via RyeBrye]