Thread: Capacitive screen for N900?
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2010-10-03 , 11:29
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Originally Posted by allnameswereout View Post
Nokia's hack is to swirl clockwise or anti clockwise which 1) takes longer 2) is a novel movement/gesture normally not made (circles) which might be related to that it doesn't work properly (not always detected its supposed to be zooming).
Ok, you are right, the swirl is not the best way either.

My mouse requires 2 fingers at least. I find your statement hilarious given Macs for a long time only had 1 mouse button. a traditional trackpad or trackpoint as found on a ThinkPad also requires 2 (1 for pointing, 1 for clicking) whereas there is less movement by the hand in the case of newer ThinkPads as well as newer Apple devices sporting one.
So now we compare mouse and trackball to the possibilities on
a smartphone or tablet?


The only argument that comes to my mind pro multitouch is the
problem to make a difference between move and zoom when
using fingers on the screen.
If it is not for using fingers on the screen, the zoom button of the
N900 can do all the other stuff (acceleration if pressed longer,
zoom once if touched once).


Nokia N8 has a solution for this which is provided in selected countries (e.g. Finland). Since I'm already using a bare finger to interact with N900, I wouldn't mind being forced having to use a bare finger (ie. a capacitive screen).
As I said: if it has to be accurate the stick has advantages.


The latest Nokia devices seem to have a capacitive screen, including the new N-Series flagship N8. So unfortunately for you it appears Nokia is drifting away from resisitive. Same happened to Palm, Apple, et al.
That's bad.

Wonder what will be the difference to Android and Apple then?