I don't get it, multitouch does seem to work fine on hacked roms, and yes the new Hero phone released in europe does have full multitouch support.
On Jul 14, 2:55 pm, Disconnect <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
