On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Streets Of Boston<[email protected]> wrote: > > Some hackers have been able to enable multi-touch on the G1. The > hardware is there, but because of legal issues, it has not been > enabled.
The hardware is not there. Go read Luke's actual postings about it (the person who investigated it and created the hack). It has, at best, what can be described as "psuedo-touch" - it can tell where 1 finger is and get size/pressure info. For 2 touches, at best it can describe a box where the touches are opposite corners, but not necessarily tell WHICH corners (or provide pressure/size info). For narrow/tall boxes, it loses the short dimension entirely. > It is a patent issue. Just google this: Um.. no. Go look at what the google developers said about it. In summary, if you want to propose a ST/MT framework that covers single, dual, multitouch and gesture-only devices (where the touch positions are hidden but gestures are returned) that degrades/promotes easily and without trashing existing apps, they'll be happy to hear it. If you get that agreed (or at least hashed out a bit) they'll accept patches. So far there is lots of FUD about "omg apple!" and no proposals. Also, and this one you'll have to do yourself if you want to stop sounding dumb, you should go read an analysis of what they -actually- patented instead of spouting alarmist the fox news propaganda... (or 'the sun' if you prefer.) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
