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2009-09-03
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Originally Posted by Architengi
What I want to know, is if they knew they were making this phone, why didn't they just make the N900 a tablet?
First Nokia capacitive Touch-Screen is released:
http://nokiapp.com/2009/09/02/nokia-...eiled-at-nw09/
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2009-09-03
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Because this is capacitive, is it multi-touch as well?
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2009-09-03
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Originally Posted by Architengi
Doesn't apple own multi-touch or some such nonsense?
Because this is capacitive, is it multi-touch as well?
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2009-09-03
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Originally Posted by JayOnThaBeat
Doesn't apple own multi-touch or some such nonsense?
No, they don't. There were others before Apple that used multi-touch. And for quicly typing on a screen keyboard with 2 fingers, multi-touch is mandatory, as well as for gaming. Devices with no keyboard or d-pad need multi-touch. That is the reality.
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2009-09-03
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Originally Posted by JayOnThaBeat
They did. Just don't put a SIM in it and *whoosh* it's a tablet. For the rest of us that actually WANTED it to be a phone, we put a SIM in it and *whoosh* it's a phone.
What I want to know, is if they knew they were making this phone, why didn't they just make the N900 a tablet?
And I don't see how the X6 announcement has anything to do with the n900 anyway...the X6 is a symbian device.
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2009-09-03
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maybe they need multitouch... but not a capacitive screen^^ i hate these screens.
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2009-09-03
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Originally Posted by Architengi
Not true at all. The Nokia 5800 is Nokia's best-selling smartphone right now, it's selling on a similar scale to the iPhone and it has a plain old resistive touchscreen with single touch and no keypad.
Devices with no keyboard or d-pad need multi-touch. That is the reality.
You might like multitouch and it might be useful in some situations but it is not mandatory. If it was mandatory why are so many non-keyboard non-multitouch touchscreen phones selling so well?
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2009-09-03
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Originally Posted by texaslabrat
Hey, texrat ripoff.... slow your roll, troll.
They did. Just don't put a SIM in it and *whoosh* it's a tablet. For the rest of us that actually WANTED it to be a phone, we put a SIM in it and *whoosh* it's a phone.
And I don't see how the X6 announcement has anything to do with the n900 anyway...the X6 is a symbian device.
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2009-09-03
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Incidentally, resistive and capacitive technologies both have their advantages. This idea that capacitive is always better than resistive isn't true:
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/featu...ts_can_win.php
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/featu...ts_can_win.php
http://nokiapp.com/2009/09/02/nokia-...eiled-at-nw09/