Question: I would like to develop a multi-touch (up to 8 fingers) application for iPhone/iPod Touch.
But during testing on my 1st gen iPod Touch once I put the 6th finger weird things started to happen.
I don't get Touch Began for the 6th finger nor Touch Ended/Cancelled for the first 5 fingers.

Do you know of any workaround for this?
Does it behave the same on your iPhones/iPods?
Would it work on G1 on Android?

Thanks

Answer: 
You can't. If you need that functionality you should [file](http://bugreporter.apple.com/) a feature request with Apple, but I suspect it is a hardware limitation that in the screen controller.
I would guess that 5 fingers is the upper limit. I imagine the engineers assumed most people have two hands with five fingers per hand, so the average person holding the phone in one hand only has five fingers to work with.

Holding your phone with just your thumbs seems precarious at best, so using it as a trumpet seems unlikely.