jkontherun.com - 1/26/2009
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The T-Mobile G1 Android phone was missing one key ability that iPhone competitors are expected to have, multi-touch. The hardware is capable of supporting multi-touch features like the famous “zoom pinch” but it was missing from the phone in its released form. Given the recent ...
geek.com - 1/25/2009
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geek.com —
A new app called MemoryUp Personal appears to
be responsible for the destruction of many G1 users’...
memory, as stated in the comments about the app in Android’s App Market. The app, created by Peter Liu, is being called a ...
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Android app destroying G1 users’ memory?
androidauthority.com - 1/27/2009
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androidauthority.com —
We just received a note from cell phone
manufacturer General Mobile telling us that it plans on...
showing off the world’s first dual-SIM capable Android powered phone at the 2009 Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona next month. The phone, ...
(more)
General Mobile showing dual-SIM DSTL1 Android phone at ...
android.com - 1/23/2009
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android.com —
Android Android Market Help Interested in having your
application in Android Market? Learn more Android Market Android...
Market helps developers get their applications in the hands of users by acting as an open distribution system. A beta version is now ...
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Multi-Touch on the T-Mobile G1
Mobility Site —
... The Open Source community is taking the Android and the G1 to levels that are far from what T-Mobile is giving to their customers and I’ve thinking lately about breaking with this company and go fully in my G1 with these Android versions which have nothing to envy to the OS in the iPhone.
Via JKonTheRun.
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Multi-Touch Seen Working On the G1 Android Phone [OStatic]
GigaOM Network —
... "The T-Mobile G1 Android phone was missing one key ability that iPhone competitors are expected to have: multi-touch," reports JKOnTheRun. The hardware is capable of supporting multi-touch features like the famous “zoom pinch” but it was missing from the phone when it was released. Android is an open source platform, though, and, sure enough, a developer has tapped into the OS kernel to get multi-touch enabled. You can see video of it working here, and I expect we'll see several multi-touch Android phones arrive this year. ...
The G1 Gets Multi-Touch
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... , Jan 26, 2009 07:00 PM [image] It looks like G1 owners won't have to be jealous of iPhone owners and their pinch navigation, as the Android community has made multi-touch possible. Unfortunately, I have a feeling we won't be seeing it in an official way for a long while. First off, here's the video (tip of the hat to jkontherun ): The impressive thing about this is the developer had to tap into Android's OS kernel, which was the promise of Google's mobile operating system to begin with. But I'm a bit disappointed by the pace of innovation so far, especially on Google's ...
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