some guy worked out how to make gloves work with capacitive touchscreens - need to sew in some conductive thread.

I've an ipod touch, loaned to me at work, now discarded. the touch screen on the n900 was very good, I'd say most people won't notice or care it's an R not a C. All I noticed was its so much better than my n800 used only minutes before.

if you *only* want a finger-based touch interface (where you have big on-screen buttons), capacitive is good, but no good at all if you ever want the pixel accuracy of a stylus - e.g. for painting/drawing app. anyway, that's been done to death elsewhere.