capacitive vs resistive
 

"iPhone meat controller takes frozen Korea by storm":

http://timesonline.typepad.com/techn...ontroller.html


I think I would get tired of my phone if I had to buy a sausage every time I wanted to use it in the winter.

I think I prefer resistive.

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awesome catch

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The N900 is my first touch screen phone, and I've used a iPod touch before, and can honestly say those who say resistive is rubbish are talking rubbish!

Yeah, you need to press slightly harder, but it's nothing thats going to hinder any usage! Obviously I've never used other resistive screens, but the N900 one is superb in my opinion.. in fact I can actually type faster on the on-screen keyboard than the hardware one at the moment! The stylus comes in handy too.

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I love resistive because you can use anything on the screen...

if only we could have multi-touch with resistive screens...

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And you know what due NOKIA is finish what you think they take rsistive Displays everything is freezing when you have to take off the gloves :)
Had it the last couple of weeks in Germany too i loved to use my N900 with the gloves instead having frozen fingers :)
:D

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I love how this topic continues to be resurrected on these forums over and over and over and over and over and over...

@bachagabriel, there are multitouch resistive screens. That is truely the win technology. There is another thread on that, if you're interested you can look for it.

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I mostly did it for comic effect.


-i agree, multitouch resistive is the way to go.

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Aww... how cute...

Here's one more thing about iBoobs app to boost your ego...

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/02/19/...rom-app-store/

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erm capacative is nice, and overall my fav

but saying al lthis - the n900 has a gret screen with great detail and i love browsing on it- and using a stylus is a plus, which you cant do on the capacative

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You can, if your stylus is made of the right material, see here for instance.

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I think there are special styluses for capacitive screens, but the ability to use anything to touch the screen is nice:cool:

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ya, the right material, which includes the "sausage" stylus :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv02XeCMQFs

unfortunately, the right material is not built into my fingernails :rolleyes:

I do believe multitouch resistive is the way to go

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You can us a special stylus on a plain capacitive, but the input is finger sized. You can't get fine control, like with a thin stylus that can fit in your device easily and give you really great precision, for things like drawing or using standard desktop menus that aren't finger sized.

Some notebooks use a combination of capactive touch and active touch screen layers, this is more expensive and one can use a very precise active stylus with the active screen layer. The problem is both cost and size of active stylus. So if you need drawing, or use desktop software unmodified on a small screen the best bang for the buck is resistive touch.

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Resistive I believe is getting a bad rap. n900's implementation I think is hot. the little rim on the edge of the screen I like because it prevents the screen from scratching when face down.

try rDesctop on a capacitive screen the size of the n900!

That said: Palm V, Palm T3, n810, touch screens have all failed after more than 1 year of daily use. Nokia - teh n900 is the make or brake - I'll report back here in a year and give you the ultimate verdict on resistive. (so far i love capacitive but want resistive on my n900)

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Maybe they will make some kind of "sausage" pads you can stick to you gloves' fingers.:) But if there will be no devices with resistive screens I'll stuck with N900.

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should file a patent for that :D

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Wobble Iboobs = iPorns lol

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I declare it as "public domain". Everybody can use it solely at his own risk and without warranty of any kind etc.:)

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I am now 110% sold on the n900's resistive screen this image below shows the levels of pressure sensitivity on the n900.
http://www.jdidesign.com/files-in/maemo/mypaint.png

just installed myPaint and can confirm i would not give this up for a capacitive screen.