Originally Posted by Bratag

Probably should buy an Iphone then eh

Originally Posted by DannStarr

I already have one... Want an n900

For full-touch mobile use, capacitive touchscreens are the best solution we've got -- and it has absolutely nothing to do with the iPhone, it has to do with the incremental improvement in usability brought about by near-100 percent touch registration. That's a big deal, because even a 5 percent loss of registration on an on-screen QWERTY keyboard would represent roughly one letter missed every five words (assuming an average word length in the English language of just over 5 letters). Resistive screens have many, many totally valid applications, but put simply, phones aren't one of them; they've been outmoded by a different technology that's more appropriate for the size and use that the average handset sees. Registration issues aside, fingers are larger than styli, and when a resistive display is registering an unweighted pinpoint coordinate, you end up ironically losing accuracy -- a benefit touted by resistive that's really only realized if you're using a stylus full-time. No one's claiming that capacitive screens are the magic elixir to make human digits achieve superhuman accuracy on a tiny screen, but... you know, step one is making sure the phone knows you pressed something.


Anyhow, HTC's now claiming that the just-announced Tattoo has gone resistive because its 2.8-inch screen is simply too small "to be accurate with" as a capacitive. The company's tweet goes on to say that resistive "ends up registering fewer miss-clicks," which could be argued -- maybe -- were users expected to use styli. Android is not and was never designed as a stylus-driven platform, and unless HTC's driving in that dubious direction, the claim is bunk. More realistically, the resistive display is probably a cost sacrifice the company made to keep sticker shock to a minimum, which is fair enough -- HTC's trying to cover many market segments with Android, as it should -- but we wish they'd been upfront about it.

Originally Posted by HangLoose

I used to like engadget and listen to their podcast but it got to a point that reading their articles (when they are nokia related) gives me a pain in the heart... Seriously, makes me angry just by reading so I stopped before a heart attack.

They are such Apple fan boys... When Apple fills a patent, theres an article just showing some drawings and its a HUUUGE deal.

N900 came out... foot note and sarcasm.

I really really reaaaaally hope that N900 outsells iPhone, iPods, MacBooks even apples just for them to shut up.

Originally Posted by attila77

Engadget outdid themselves today, actually telling they know better than the device manufacturer - if you do don't do capacitive, you suck. They actually think the only reason to use capacitive screens is to lower cost.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/08/h...ive-to-work-w/