Comments on: G1 Can Handle Multi-Touch Afterall?

By: syabac

syabac — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:45:16 +0000

very interesting..
multitouch on Android..

By: AndroidTapp.com

AndroidTapp.com — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:23:16 +0000

Hereâ€™s a few vids of a guy demoing possible multi touch (or quirk) with G1

By: justAPhoneUser

justAPhoneUser — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:56:44 +0000

Well, the patent database is open for all to browse, but I believe that Synaptic probably controls any patents to do with multitouch. Perhaps Apple owns some cross patents, e.g. multotouch + browser? Or Google was just trying to be different? The Google interface dose ahandle one handed operation a bit better. That being said, I would like the option for both.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:36:16 +0000

im assuming it was a cost/time thing. nothing more they needed this out before x-mas.

By: android shogun

android shogun — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:27:54 +0000

It's the patent. Apple owns the best multi-touch patent in the world.

It's hard to invent another system of handling multi-touch than the one used in Apple iPhone.

By: Armytank

Armytank — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:18:30 +0000

there are already apps that support multi-touch. Does that have anything to do with this?

By: DK

DK — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:13:28 +0000

I had heard that there was an IP issue -- that Apple owns the rights to the multi-touch design.

I haven't looked into it, however, but a lot of news sites had been reporting that from before the G1 launch (Wired and Cnet, I think).

By: johndavies24

johndavies24 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:35:15 +0000

Yeah, and the G1 can MMS... What the hell type of phone cant send or receive multimedia messages!

By: Phil

Phil — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:31:35 +0000

Why is this news? I believe at the launch event the multi-touch question was brought up and it was pointed out that it is capable and simply not implemented. I believe there is a legal issue with Apple on that and/or auto orientation through the accelerometer.

By: CJ Millisock

CJ Millisock — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:32:59 +0000

haha RyeBrye. pwn3d

The real advantage Android has over the iPhone is the open app store. Apple will have a serious problem in the long run if they remain closed.

By: Me

Me — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:33:29 +0000

Hmm, I wonder who would have patented this?

http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/02/apple-patent-attack-the-multi-touch-gesture-dictionary/
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2008/02/multitouch_patents
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2006/10/09.2.shtml

By: RyeBrye

RyeBrye — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:40:19 +0000

Oh, and a simple retort to the iPhone users is: "My phone does speech recognition dialing out of the box, and can copy and paste."

By: RyeBrye

RyeBrye — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:39:22 +0000

One of Dan Morrill's comments was:

"Even if HTC got a deal on a multi-touch panel and substituted it in, the specification is still single-touch"

"The G1 was never specified to be a multi-touch device. Since it was th first Android device, we therefore didn't bother to build a multi-touch framework into the API"

Although, to be fair, earlier he said:
"If you have one finger on the pad and tap with another finger, the G1 cannot detect the second tap" - which I proved to be wrong...