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Thor is offline Thor
2009-11-04 , 23:25
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#71
Originally Posted by ossipena View Post
harder material gets, easier it is to crack...
Of course. The iPhone glass screen is much more easily cracked than the N900 (assuming the N900's screen is not glass). However, even the iPhone's screen will get scratched. For example if you have a wedding ring with a diamond and reach into your pocket and the diamond rubs against the iPhone screen, you'll get a scratch. It is much harder to polish out a scratch on a glass surface than on a plastic surface.

If you look at the hardness scale :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohs_sc...neral_hardness

You'll see glass is roughly halfway. Sand contains silica and is used to manufacture glass and is well capable of scratching glass as well. There's a reason why sandpaper and sandblasting is used. If you look at number 9 on the scale: corundum, this is the material used as a synthetic sapphire crystal that is found in watches such as Omega, Rolex, Audemars Piguet, Blancpain, Patek Philippe, Panerai, Corum, DeWitt, IWC, Sinn, Doxa etc and any watchmaker that has a reputation for precision horological instruments. If you see the old Rolexes from the 60s or the Omega Moonwatch (that uses a hesalite plastic crystal as NASA were worried that synthetic sapphire could shatter, causing a problem in zero gravity) that had plastic crystals; they would scratch quite easily, but you can easily polish out the scratches using something like Polywatch.

Or try another alternative, see here:
http://www.timezone.com/article.aspx...=workbench0018
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2009-11-18 , 05:04
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#72
Originally Posted by KasperKnop View Post
I am really looking for a new mobile (this or the droid if it comes to DK...)

But it seems like the screen gets VERY smudgy from sticky fingers and its overall just nothing like looking at the screen of lets say the HTC hero. The screen should also be VERY easily scratched(my-symbian preview):

"The only thing that worries me when it comes to N900 display is its resistence to scratches and other damages. And it seems to be lower than expected. I got the device without any protective case and the display got some awful scratches in just one day, and that's only because some sand grains got into the pocket I kept it in. Maybe it is just a coincidence and the same would happen to any other device, but a good screen protector or soft carrying case are recommended, just in case. OK, now..."

And last but not least... its resistive technology... I dont use styles nor gloves so its only a bad thing XD
exactly. even my laptop mousepad is capacitive.
 
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2009-11-18 , 05:42
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#73
Originally Posted by KasperKnop View Post
I am really looking for a new mobile (this or the droid if it comes to DK...)

But it seems like the screen gets VERY smudgy from sticky fingers and its overall just nothing like looking at the screen of lets say the HTC hero. The screen should also be VERY easily scratched(my-symbian preview):

"The only thing that worries me when it comes to N900 display is its resistence to scratches and other damages. And it seems to be lower than expected. I got the device without any protective case and the display got some awful scratches in just one day, and that's only because some sand grains got into the pocket I kept it in. Maybe it is just a coincidence and the same would happen to any other device, but a good screen protector or soft carrying case are recommended, just in case. OK, now..."

And last but not least... its resistive technology... I dont use styles nor gloves so its only a bad thing XD
iPhone fanboy...btw l2read...Symbian review, the author stated and I quote 'only because I had a few sand pebbles in my pocket', that's why his phone got all scratched. In all the other reviews, no one has complained about the screen being easily scratched.

Furthermore, you're going to get smudgy screens on any phone that is made of glass and doesn't have a screen protector...hell my iPhone is smudgy central but I don't cry like a little girl just because I have fingerprints on it...I do what other people do--go out and buy screen protectors which cut down on smudgy smudges.

If this phone isn't for you, then why did you even post here in the first place? Cause quite frankly, we don't care that you're not going to buy it.
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2009-11-18 , 05:44
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#74
Originally Posted by Devil View Post
exactly. even my laptop mousepad is capacitive.
It's hard as **** to click on the smallest links on a capacitive screen, not to mention that I want a stylus for the handwriting program on the N900
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2009-11-18 , 05:47
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#75
Originally Posted by CaptainGinyu View Post
Does anyone know EXACTLY what the material for the screen is? I know my Cowon S9 is made of something called "Gorilla Glass", and no matter how I handle that thing, what is in my pocket with it..etc, it doesn't have a SINGLE scratch. And I use that thing all day, every day. Would that kind of material only work for capacitive?
wow that stuff is impressive...

http://www.corning.com/specialtymate...la_glass2.aspx
 
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2009-11-18 , 06:14
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Originally Posted by jandmdickerson View Post
wow that stuff is impressive...

http://www.corning.com/specialtymate...la_glass2.aspx
Corning makes some awesome stuff. Their museum up in NY is pretty awesome, if you're a person who enjoys materials science it's that much better.

Half centimeter thick sheets of glass that bounce a steel bearing dropped from 10m? 15m thick slabs of optical glass that are clearer than water (while windowpane glass goes opaque at 1m)? Super-durable glass is the least I'd expect.
 
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2009-11-18 , 06:19
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Request for video of screen scratch test using keys (on N900)
 
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2009-11-18 , 06:45
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may be they should have made two version capacitive and resistive..
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2009-11-18 , 06:47
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#79
I can't believe such a non-issue as the type of touch sensor is still bringing posts to this thread.
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2009-11-18 , 07:15
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non issue? i'm a pancy but i'm not a pancy when it comes to touching things and if i have to rub my phone harder than my girlfriend that's okay but if i have to bash it it's another story.
 
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