Milestone meets Droid...

[vonfink13]

i thought this was pretty cool..

Motorola Milestone firmware hacked onto its U.S. Droid cousin | Android Central

 

[RinTinTigger]

REALLY NICE FIND!!

i like it that they have done the bootanimation from the Nexus!!

Genius!

 

[JhankG]

Here is a link to the same story on Engadget:

Motorola Milestone firmware coaxed into Droid, multitouch ensues (video!) -- Engadget

Yay! We will finally have full multi touch. :icon_ banana:

 

[topaz330]

wonder when we'll get the how to guide on how to do this...

 

[RinTinTigger]

I think this will only with pushing a custom ROM on your phone, or taking parts of the Milestone dump. THAT can brick your phone, if not done right!

 

[Foolish]

Ya I will miss mye eye booting up though. I think let us keep the eye and instead port support for animated backgrounds and animated gif support within the custom rom. Alldroid.org says it will be a week or two before we see a rom for this

 

[evil_O]

For those that don't want to hack, anyone have any guesses how long before multi touch will be included in an OS OTA/upgrade?

 

[Martin030908]

For those that don't want to hack, anyone have any guesses how long before multi touch will be included in an OS OTA/upgrade?

when the fear of Apple dies.... who knows when that'll be. Can't they just let us have multi-touch in the states?

 

[evil_O]

For those that don't want to hack, anyone have any guesses how long before multi touch will be included in an OS OTA/upgrade?

when the fear of Apple dies.... who knows when that'll be. Can't they just let us have multi-touch in the states?

I take it Apple has the stranglehold on multi touch here in the states then? I can only imagine they would go after anyone that included that on their phone/OS if that is the case.

 

[Martin030908]

For those that don't want to hack, anyone have any guesses how long before multi touch will be included in an OS OTA/upgrade?

when the fear of Apple dies.... who knows when that'll be. Can't they just let us have multi-touch in the states?

I take it Apple has the stranglehold on multi touch here in the states then? I can only imagine they would go after anyone that included that on their phone/OS if that is the case.

Pretty much how it's been. On a side note... how is it that Nikon can so boldly promote it's multi-touch zoom on it's cameras with no issues from Apple? Is it because it's not a smart phone device?

 

[evil_O]

when the fear of Apple dies.... who knows when that'll be. Can't they just let us have multi-touch in the states?

I take it Apple has the stranglehold on multi touch here in the states then? I can only imagine they would go after anyone that included that on their phone/OS if that is the case.

Pretty much how it's been. On a side note... how is it that Nikon can so boldly promote it's multi-touch zoom on it's cameras with no issues from Apple? Is it because it's not a smart phone device?

Good question. I have got to think there are/is time limits that allow things like multi touch to be accessible to other companies. Isn't there something written into to copyright laws that only allow for ownership for something like 7 years? Or is this just wishful thinking? Seems like I remember hearing that somewhere at some point.

 

[Martin030908]

I take it Apple has the stranglehold on multi touch here in the states then? I can only imagine they would go after anyone that included that on their phone/OS if that is the case.

Pretty much how it's been. On a side note... how is it that Nikon can so boldly promote it's multi-touch zoom on it's cameras with no issues from Apple? Is it because it's not a smart phone device?

Good question. I have got to think there are/is time limits that allow things like multi touch to be accessible to other companies. Isn't there something written into to copyright laws that only allow for ownership for something like 7 years? Or is this just wishful thinking? Seems like I remember hearing that somewhere at some point.

i think the copyright deals with 7 'differences'. i may be way off base here. In other words if you change 7 things about a copyrighted material it no longer infringes on the copyright. I don't know how to explain this better, and I'm not even sure I'm on the right track... feel free to correct me/add the rest of the details!

 

[coolkidd]

Wow.... Apple would really be pissed off about this... I think I hear a lawsuit coming....

 

[bacalao]

I take it Apple has the stranglehold on multi touch here in the states then? I can only imagine they would go after anyone that included that on their phone/OS if that is the case.

Pretty much how it's been. On a side note... how is it that Nikon can so boldly promote it's multi-touch zoom on it's cameras with no issues from Apple? Is it because it's not a smart phone device?

Good question. I have got to think there are/is time limits that allow things like multi touch to be accessible to other companies. Isn't there something written into to copyright laws that only allow for ownership for something like 7 years? Or is this just wishful thinking? Seems like I remember hearing that somewhere at some point.

I think it is 17 years.

 

[DaHarder]

I guess my question would be... Why?

The U.S. version currently the only one with Google Maps w/ TbT, so what's the point of installing the EURO Firmware and lose that feature?

If all you want is 'multi touch' web browsing experience, then I suggest using Dolphin.​