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2009-04-22 , 22:44
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Originally Posted by TheTree View Post
One of the biggest reasons why it's so difficult to use your finger to navigate web links is the resistive touch screen. Resistive touch screens are crap when used with a finger. I have both a N810 and an iPod touch and when selecting, for example, "page 5" on a thread on ITT, I can use the capacitive screen on the iPod with a finger about as accurately as the stylus on the N810, without zooming way in on either device.
Sorry, no, but it's much more complicated than that. There are two big reasons that have nothing to do with the touchscreen technology used:

First, uses fuzzy click-detection logic. If you don't hit the link perfectly it will guess that the link is what you were shooting for.

Second, the iPod has a lower PPI screen, so links on the iPod are bigger and easier to hit simply because it backs fewer pixels into the same amount of space.
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