Does anyone know whether Stantum tech requires a specific type of screen or associated HW? ie would it be possible if a sufficiently accurate resistive touch panel was manufactured that just happened to meet stantum spec, if driver (or the equiv) updates to firmware / software could implement the tech later?

This is not something that I am going to suggest about the n900, but in the interests of learning more about the tech in general, I think it would be good if someone could clear this up!

My take (I am an interested consumer only - NO industry level knowledge) is that Stantum tech requires a touchpanel of certain quality/resolution, but doesn't need to be in any way fundamentally different from the standard touch tech. However I don't know if a specific HW level chip is needed or whether the interpretation of the input can be done at a firm/software level or not...