Thread: Stantum Display on N900
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leeyam is offline leeyam
2009-11-02 , 13:50
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#39
Originally Posted by ragnar View Post
There is no multitouch for the N900. (This shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody.)

For Stantum, I'm sure it is very fine technology, but there is a big difference between having working evaluation kits for your technology and between being able to deliver millions of touch panels in a low-total-cost package to some company. Do you know of any mass-volume product right now that would be using their display technology?
quick preface - I'm inclined to agree with you that there will not be multitouch for the N900, but I'd like to see the idea definitively debunked, through a teardown of the HW (call me a sceptic of sceptics, if you like). It's important to remember that Stantum's displays do not require some revolutionary new form of resistive tech - but simply the same old resistive screen produced to a certain standard - and they have been speaking to touchpanel manufacturers now for a while who "are ready" to produce the panels (see 1:11 and 2:11 ff here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv3X5y-ajtc&fmt=18)

Further, Stantum at SEE demonstrated an implementation of their tech by a licencee (sorry I have rewatched the vid now to refresh on the terminology) in a panel that looked like a production panel, before going on to demonstrate an evaluation kit. see from 6:40 here: (http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/news/...m_SEE_2009.php - also, check the size of the thing in his hand...)

While I would not be surprised to see that there is no multitouch for the n900, I also think that there are a few facts that seem to line up nicely, and it is a cool thought to have. Nokia has put cool HW features to use only with significantly later firmware revisions, so the lack of implementation in Maemo5 of Multitouch in my mind isn't a 100% killer of this idea (maybe like 95%). Further, isn't that just the linux way??
(cf xkcd: http://xkcd.com/644/)

Anyway - what else are we supposed to do while we wait for the device? talk about it *without* superstition, faith and mysticism?? pfft, that's BORING..