I’m a big fan of the Apple iPhone 3G. We had bought the first generation iPhone which, as many know, had a few issues that led me to ultimately run back to my trusty Blackberry. Shortly thereafter, the iPhone 3G was released. This seemed much smoother and faster and I now find myself very fond of the iPhone and multitouch experience.

Last weekend, a colleague of mine in the US passed me a link that was relevant to multitouch and it was pretty cool so I thought I would share. As I spoke about in an earlier post, the T-Mobile G1 / HTC Dream was released, and it claimed to only supported single-touch rather than the iPhone style multitouch. Dan Morrill, a Google developer advocate for Android made statements that the device was multitouch and had no support for it yet. Eventually even one of HTC’s chiefs chimed in that the Dream was only ever designed to be a single-touch device. However once the source of the Android stack was released, Pandora’s box was opened and the developers rushed to the playground. This video is awesome and shows the T-Mobile G1 phone using multitouch.

As mentioned in the video, it isn’t ready for end users but this is a great ‘no bull’ demo of the potential capabilities. The general assumption is that the multitouch functionality was not built into the release of the T-Mobile G1 probably because it wasn’t in the design specs as a feature for the 1st release and as such, was not ready and not central to the core mission that ANDROID was trying to accomplish. Pretty great stuff nonetheless!