Motorola DROID gets multi-touch via the Motorola Milestone
Thanks to some hard work by the members of AllDroid forums, Motorola DROID owners who are not afraid of flashing can look forward to adding multi-touch to their handset in the very near future. With a little bit of hacking, the multi-touch capable firmware of the Motorola Milestone, the European version of the DROID, has been ripped and successfully ported to the DROID. After making a video showcasing their triumph, the most worthy hackers are focusing their efforts on producing a cooked ROM so we all can share in this multi-touch goodness. Their video showcasing two-finger pinch and zoom is after the jump.
[via Engadget]
[...] Android Authority via [...]
I still don’t understand why the Droid doesn’t have this out of the box. No one has given a good explanation yet.
Frustrating.
[...] a few days ago, we reported on the addition of multi-touch to the DROID, a feat that was achieved by a few members of Alldroid who managed to take the firmware from the [...]
Droid does not have multi-touch out of the box in the US because of patent # 7,479,949.