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Several $99 tabs have emerged in India. I am yet to get my hands on them but I suspect Indian companies have simply imported some cheap Chinese low quality stuf

Several $99 tabs have emerged in India. I am yet to get my hands on them but I suspect Indian companies have simply imported some cheap Chinese low quality stuff and branded as their own.

joezydeco 15y ago
All of the cheap tablets are using resistive touchscreens. After 5 minutes of using one you'll want to throw it out the window. They're impossible to stay calibrated, they can't do more than one-point touch, and if you're lucky you'll remember where the stylus is for the first few days before it's gone forever.
- eftpotrm 15y ago
  Funny; I used a Palm III then a Psion 5 for several years in the past. Both were resistive touch screens, both were accurate, I didn't lose either stylus. In fact, I found the resistive screen more accurate than my current capacitative on my phone, because I quickly realised I could use the end of a fingernail as a very precise makeshift stylus - which is obviously out with capacitative. Is there a specific reason these are that much worse than 12-13 year old devices?
  - jarek 15y ago
    The reason is that GP is used to the iPhone and feels devices that don't behave like it are inferior.
  - joezydeco 15y ago
    My hypothesis is that the larger the screen, the harder it is to keep the resistance within tolerance for the price. Don't get me wrong, there are large-format resistive screens that work well. You can see them on a lot of commercial and industrial products (ask any waiter or waitress working with a Micros system). But I think what is being put on the $99 tablets are very cheap films with loose tolerances and cheap knockoff controller chips. You can literally feel the film floating off the cover lens on some of these tablets. I tried one chinese Android tablet, SuperPad III, and you could feel the film moving.

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Several $99 tabs have emerged in India. I am yet to get my hands on them but I suspect Indian companies have simply imported some cheap Chinese low quality stuf

by digamber_kamat 15y ago

Several $99 tabs have emerged in India. I am yet to get my hands on them but I suspect Indian companies have simply imported some cheap Chinese low quality stuff and branded as their own.

joezydeco 15y ago
All of the cheap tablets are using resistive touchscreens. After 5 minutes of using one you'll want to throw it out the window. They're impossible to stay calibrated, they can't do more than one-point touch, and if you're lucky you'll remember where the stylus is for the first few days before it's gone forever.
- eftpotrm 15y ago
  Funny; I used a Palm III then a Psion 5 for several years in the past. Both were resistive touch screens, both were accurate, I didn't lose either stylus. In fact, I found the resistive screen more accurate than my current capacitative on my phone, because I quickly realised I could use the end of a fingernail as a very precise makeshift stylus - which is obviously out with capacitative. Is there a specific reason these are that much worse than 12-13 year old devices?
  - jarek 15y ago
    The reason is that GP is used to the iPhone and feels devices that don't behave like it are inferior.
  - joezydeco 15y ago
    My hypothesis is that the larger the screen, the harder it is to keep the resistance within tolerance for the price. Don't get me wrong, there are large-format resistive screens that work well. You can see them on a lot of commercial and industrial products (ask any waiter or waitress working with a Micros system). But I think what is being put on the $99 tablets are very cheap films with loose tolerances and cheap knockoff controller chips. You can literally feel the film floating off the cover lens on some of these tablets. I tried one chinese Android tablet, SuperPad III, and you could feel the film moving.