The T-Mobile G1′s hardware supports multi-touch?!?!

by Nicholas Ahn on November 18, 2008 4:47 pm

Blogger RyeBrye has found that the T-Mobile G1 outputs data suggesting that the G1′s touchscreen display has support for multi-touch, something previously thought to be only available to iPhone users. Code from the debugging console demonstrate that the T-Mobile G1 can indeed track two fingers.

As multi-touch capabilities have always been appreciated on the Apple iPhone and Microsoft Surface, one can only wonder why HTC chose to leave off multi-touch support from the G1. Patents, and future developments may explain why, but we don’t realy know yet. G1 owners can only hope that support for multi-touch is brought via a future OTA update, instead of being reserved for a new phone in the future sign.

[via AndroidGuys]

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http://www.facebook.com/rahulnebhnani96 Rahul Nebhnani

no, moreover it is showing your device has been modified software update not available :/
PS : its not rooted
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DaGr8Pnoy

I am tired of waiting for the at&t version. It has been 5 months since this rolled out internationally. This is the only reason I hate the official carrier version of the Galaxy S3. I understand why they need to test it, but it has been 5 months and it really does not take that long. at&t has so many customers using this phone and it only makes sense to make this update a priority. The only reason I am rocking this version over the international version is because of LTE and I love it. Common at&t, update this phone please. I don’t care if I don’t use half the features just let me and your customers know that we can rely on you to hear and support us.
Grayson Terry

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http://www.facebook.com/tiffany.guillory.3 Tiffany Guillory

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