Huh? Why is that? The only [not very] valid reason I've seen out there is lack of multi-touch. What other drawbacks are there? If it were me, I'd s/resistive/capacitive in your statement and face it to other phones w/out resistive. As others probably notice on this forum, I call BS on Nokia/Maemo freely so no one can accuse me of being an N900 fanboi, but when it comes to their screen (resistive use and resolution/pixels/brightness/clarity) no one has heard me say anything but positive - it is a no brainer - this coming from someone who has a collection of "you name the smartphone/tablet, I got it." Nexus One? Yup. DROID? Yup. Accounts with ATT/TMO/VZW? Doesn't everyone?

Why does everyone think a resistive touchscreen is a drawback? Amazing how inaccurate information about certain technology continues to propagate. We're not 20-years ago - resistive technology is great these days and superior to capacitive in a number of ways. It's more accurate, it doesn't require you to take your gloves off, you can use a stylus, it's lower overhead to implement (i.e. all the fly-by-wire code that needs to make capacitive work can go away and free up resources/battery life), and, did I mention it is more accurate? (has to do with what happens under the hood to make capacitive work semi-accurately - similar to a stealth fighter: not meant to fly, would be impossible to fly w/out all the code and compute power in it, but it seems just fine until you talk to a pilot- capacitive is truly fly-by-wire and this is why you have a lot of issues with dead spots coming and going regardless of the phone. Even that super duper cult-creating iThing gets complaints about dead spots.

I have NEVER had that issue with a resistive. I also haven't had to use the built-in, very simple "hit four dots and your done" calibrator Nokia has on N900/N97/etc. Comes out of the box in great shape and never seems to lose calibration.

Anyway, implementation is a different story. Nokia has it dead on with the N900. It has other issues (which the community is solving for Maemo/Nokia), but one of the several things I REALLY like is the resistive screen. I love using a stylus so I don't have to zoom a web page just to hit something - in general, I use the stylus about 70% of the time just maneavuring around. I love not having to take my gloves off when it is -5C out. I've been doing some testing with my Nexus One and a DROID lately and whenever I go to their screens, I realize how good the quality is of the N900's touch. It is spot on and so sensitive that some like using Zagg's heavier invisishield screen protector to 'back down' the sensitivity.

I'm being very general hear and don't feel like doing anything more than that, but there is nothing wrong with resistive and I'm baffled as to why most still think it's a fault. Perhaps because many don't think it can do multi-touch? It can, but even if not, who cares? Nokia/Apple have so many patent lawsuits against each other right now, I'm fairly certain Nokia isn't about to license multi-touch from Apple (who is the only manufacturer not paying Nokia to license Nokia's tons of patents - Apple is using in iPhone and puters not paying and 40+ others are paying Nokia). Tangent, but my speculation why Nokia isn't about to play nicely with Apple (who recently filed a complaint to with the US trade commission to prevent Nokia from selling in the US).

I have always liked Nokia's implementation on resistive. My N97 isn't as good as the N900, but it is still better than some of the capacitives out there PLUS has handwriting recognition that works pretty good (miss it on the N900 though). I, for one, am one of the people that hopes Nokia doesn't go capacitive - ever. This particularly helps them in markets that are colder. I hope the lack of handwriting recognition was just to get it launched rather than a sign of no more resistive and no more stylus and taking my gloves off. But, if I do hit a small combo box or radio button on a page w/my fat finger, 95% of the time it gets what I'm aiming for w/out the stylus. Nokia simply has it right - no question.

I should mention, I'd hate to use the N900's superior resolution w/out a stylus - it would be constant zooming or compensating for it by making everything bigger defeating the purpose of the increased real estate. As resolutions get to the N900's level, I'm interested in knowing what capacitive freaks plan to do.