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I for one am looking forward both to it and what the people can develop with it. If nothing else, it should lead to some awesome games!!

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It'd explain why no multi-touch phone (at least AFAIK) has used them. I'm pretty sure that if Google could have used them, Android would have shipped with them to begin with.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/Nov 22nd 2008 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/Do you think you posted that enough????]]>Nov 22nd 2008 11:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/Nov 22nd 2008 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Or it could just mean his method of polling is incorrect/very inefficient. ]]>Nov 22nd 2008 11:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/
Despite all that, I don't think this video proves that the Dream's touchscreen is truly capable of multitouch. I don't mean hacked-up multitouch, as this implementation may well be, but the real thing.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/
I for one, own a G1. I am excited to see this software, and the OS, develop and grow as I own this phone.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 11:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/Nov 22nd 2008 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/Nov 22nd 2008 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/Nov 22nd 2008 11:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/Nov 22nd 2008 11:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/Nov 23rd 2008 12:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/
The only way to get true multi-touch is to have hardware that can monitor multiple input points. Also with the software emulation that's shown in the video, the polling will murder battery life.

Still, good work by the developer.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/
You are mistaken. It uses the same touchscreen technology as the iPhone. It simply needs the software to back the hardware.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 11:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/
Plus, the developer implies multiple times in the video that this is an emulation.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/
If you look at another one of his demos (a program that just states where his fingers are touching) you will see the hardware notices where the two fingers are touching and can give the coordinates for them. ]]>Nov 22nd 2008 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/
if you have read that little text on the video on how did he do it, he did it by polling the touch events written on a directory, so its not really "multi" but the code is so fast at polling and writing the circles that it looks like its "multi". ]]>Nov 22nd 2008 11:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/
It's an awesome achievement for the sake of achievement but I still find multi-touch on a mobile phone to be nothing more than a novelty.]]>Nov 22nd 2008 11:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/Nov 22nd 2008 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/Nov 22nd 2008 11:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/http://www.engadget.com/2008/11/22/g1-multi-touch-a-reality-integrated-headphone-jack-still-just-a/Nov 23rd 2008 8:17AM