The “Break it Down” Blog

Unofficial Multi-Touch Support for T-Mobile G1

Luke Hutchinson recently blogged about the steps required to get a hacked implementation of multi-touch on your T-Mobile G1. The result is some OK mutli-touch, but not yet on par with the likes of the iPhone: The process isn’t for the weak of heart, as it requires reflashing your G1’s firmware with a modified one (which [...]

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BlackBerry (9500) Storm Touch Screen Releasing All Over the Place

It’s freaking official, after the first announcement was made that the BlackBerry ‘Thunder’ was the new BlackBerry to compete with the iPhone, then months of waiting, then rumors that it was now called the ‘Storm’, it’s finally here, and every carrier everywhere seems to be getting them. The shot you see above is from Canada’s Telus [...]

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New Multi-Touch Windows Taskbar In Action

My apologies, this is actually older news back from May, but we hadn’t run across it until now. It seems that the media semi-blitz required to reset people’s perspectives of Microsoft (and erase the bad name they got for Vista) are starting early… way early. Microsoft isn’t slated to release Windows 7 (Vienna?) until January 2010, [...]

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New BlackBerry Touchscreen – The Thunder

Update #1: The BlackBerry ‘Thunder’ is now called the ‘Storm’ and is slowly being released on networks all around the world, with Verizon having first-rights here in the US. Check out the story. Well it looks like BlackBerry was working on a touch-screen smart phone after all! Pictured above is the new BlackBerry Thunder (9500-series); details [...]

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Windows 7 Multi-Touch Demo Amazes non-iPhone Users

Ballmer and Gates showed off Windows 7 (the follow-up failure to Vista) which ended up being Vista + Multi-touch technology. Everyone in the crowd that had never seen an iPhone before or heard of the idea of a “touch screen” since the 80s was sufficiently amazed… everyone else just saw Microsoft continuing to draft Apple [...]

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