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2009-11-04 , 08:41
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*Note to self: don't play with n900 on the beach*
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2009-11-04 , 08:44
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Originally Posted by fmo View Post
I have tried capacitive touch screen, my present phone has one and I hate every single minute of it, the lack of precision especially while browsing the web is really annoying... I've had my phone for 4 month and I'm sure that I will never get another capacitive touch screen ever again.
That's just it though... capacitive is only less acurate compared to resistive with a stylus. For the unwashed masses that want to use their whole finger for web browsing on a 3.5" screen, capacitive does seem more responsive and accurate, simply because there is no need to actually press, which leads to less of the finger hitting the display... You're going to continue to have a huge amount of people that want a 480x320 screen with huge icons, just because they want to mash all over the screen with their thumbs...

I was actually looking at getting a HTC HD2, which has a glass capacitive screen, but the lack of an ability to use a normal object as a stylus bugs me... my fingers are too clunky to use accurately for clicking small links - I prefer high pixel density and text sizes that make links clickable only with a stylus :P
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Originally Posted by bemymonkey View Post
That's just it though... capacitive is only less acurate compared to resistive with a stylus. For the unwashed masses that want to use their whole finger for web browsing on a 3.5" screen, capacitive does seem more responsive and accurate, simply because there is no need to actually press, which leads to less of the finger hitting the display... You're going to continue to have a huge amount of people that want a 480x320 screen with huge icons, just because they want to mash all over the screen with their thumbs...
False. I use my thumbs with more precision on my resistive devices than I ever could on a capacitive one.
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2009-11-04 , 09:22
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Interesting... I found devices like the HTC Touch Diamond 2 or the original Touch Pro to be quite a bit less accurate than the iPhone or Hero when it came to using fingers. Maybe I'm just too used to the stylus
 
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2009-11-04 , 09:37
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Glass is still scratchable. For example the higher end phones use a sapphire coating like high end watches as only something of the hardness of a diamond will scratch it, but there are still particles in brickwork, for example, that have this hardness and can scratch the sapphire crystal. I believe sand may have something similar but I forget offhand.
harder material gets, easier it is to crack...
 
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2009-11-04 , 09:41
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Originally Posted by fmo View Post
I have tried capacitive touch screen, my present phone has one and I hate every single minute of it, the lack of precision especially while browsing the web is really annoying... I've had my phone for 4 month and I'm sure that I will never get another capacitive touch screen ever again.

About the scratching on the screen, it will happen on any phone if you don't protect it, I have friends with iPhone 3G and 3GS and their screens and in an horrible state whereas when I sold my N800 that I had used for 1 year it didn't have a single one... so I guess it also depends a lot on how you use it.

One thing I used to do with my N800 and after that my 5800 is to take short notes on the screen, it's really convenient when you are in a hurry and need some details, I've been missing that a lot.

Resistive touch screen are getting better just look at the difference with the N900 compared to older technologies!
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2009-11-04 , 09:48
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
False. I use my thumbs with more precision on my resistive devices than I ever could on a capacitive one.
100% true.
I never used a stylus in the Nokia 5800. You can choose very small links on the screen when surfing the web. When I had the iphone I always had to zoom in to enter a link.
Capacitive sucks…
 
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2009-11-04 , 10:01
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talk about a troll...
this guys (KasperKnop) posts are just complaining about the n900...

Hey pal, why dont you buy a iphone and a latte and go to spend the entire day at a starbucks just posing around? maybe you will even meet a partner there to complain about other things like... women in bikinis and so on...
 

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2009-11-04 , 10:02
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[...] "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.
That's not 'only'. Nothing much can withstand sand. Diamond, possibly. Sand can quickly and easily scratch _anything_. I used to be a bicycle mechanic for competion racers, and expensive, high-quality, super-hard bearings could be quickly (as in one, short, trip) scratched by sand even though you couldn't make a notch in it with anything in the toolbox.

Put a piece of glass in a pocket, a mirror for example, with some sand grains. Walk around. See what happens.

The only thing that helps against sand is to let it scratch something else, i.e. a screen protector that you then replace.
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2009-11-04 , 10:20
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Sand.

They use it to blast old buildings clean.
It turns bloody great boulders into itty bitty pebbles.
It will clean all the rough skin off your feet if you walk on it barefoot.


And yes, it will scratch the screen of your n900.
Learn well, Grasshopper: take n900 only on country picninc, not beach ones.
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