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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 fa
by 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 agoThe reason is that GP is used to the iPhone and feels devices that don't behave like it are inferior.
- joezydeco 15y agoMy 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.