Thread: 15 hardware changes that would have made N900 physically irresistible – [15 essential hardware features for its successor]
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JayMontano is offline JayMontano
2009-12-28 , 17:23
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#15
Originally Posted by Flandry View Post
No...

Thanks for the FUD, but multitouch resistive technology exists and doesn't make you throw away your sketching apps, handwriting input capability (goodbye 1B+ potential customers in China), and so forth. There are also capacitive-type technologies that accept stylus input if desired.

I would tentatively agree about 4-row keyboards. Arrow keys for all!
yup @ resistive displays with multitouch. Soz, I didn't intend to suggest multitouch is only with capacitive.

And this is probably going to be one of the worst places to try and convince people about going capacitive - I mean you guys have enjoyed the benefits of styluses with your tablets.

But you are also right, it is also possible to have stylus use for capacitive screens.

The whole "physically irresistible" hardware wise thing is more aimed towards the market carved out by iPhone, newer breeds of HTC and rest of upcoming touch smartphones who will blindly want feather touch capacitive.

Nokia could always make a resistive variant. But it's nigh on vital they make one with capacitive (unless they can make a resistive screen that has the same sensitivity)