you don't understand why HTC (samsung and other WinMo device manufacturers) sticks with a resistive touchscreen and stylus input.. These manufacturers all hail from Asia and most of their products are first (of course) intended for their Asian market.
Since countries in Asia uses a diverse alphabet (mostly different for each country) and most of their words are not spelled with letters but with 'Word Blocks' (meaning 1 word=1 symbol) and/or syllable blocks, they do not use the standard Roman Alphabet (aka the QWERTY keyboard) as a form of input.. Most Chinese (Japanese and Korean as well) still use a 'graffiti' style character recognition , or Caligraphy Input, which (for obvious reasons) USES A STYLUS.
this is also the reason why HTC (et al) sticks with Resistive screens.. because, Styluses (as well as fingers) work well on resistive screens while capacitive screens works ONLY with fingers..
No, there are versions of the Capacitive Touch screen that has a flexible glass substrate that includes a resistive layer matrix under / or over the glass that responds to pressure...
So you can have best of both worlds. Stylus and Capacitive touch.
No, you wouldn't get the best of both worlds, you'd get two different input methods, making the screen dimmer, less responsive (because it would take more time figuring out which touch receptor you are using at that point), and more expensive.
Wow...that is a good point. I never thought about that in regards to the Asian market not wanting capacitive touchscreen. That being said, I find it near impossible to use a qwerty on-screen keyboard on a resistive screen. So, I guess the only real option that leaves us qwerty folks with is the awesome iPhone touchscreen or the awesome physical keyboard on phones like the HTC Touch Pro... I really liked my old HTC Hermes keyboard, and I really love my iPhone keyboard, but I cannot type on the LG Vu or the original HTC Touch...
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But the question is;
"is the Touch screen Glass capacitive or the everyday cheap GPS run of the mill Resistive?"
Hopefully/probably the same as the Diamond, which is glass capacitive.
No the Touch Diamond/Pro are Glass resistive (so it can work with a stylus,nails etc..)
oh u mean the like the cheap gps the iphone uses dam troll
YOYO, you have no brains, BRAINS!...
cheap GPS, as in $99-$149 wal-mart GPS units for the car/pocket...
Gosh, you just love the iBrick so much its always on your ...oh wait, you don't have one...
you don't understand why HTC (samsung and other WinMo device manufacturers) sticks with a resistive touchscreen and stylus input.. These manufacturers all hail from Asia and most of their products are first (of course) intended for their Asian market.
Since countries in Asia uses a diverse alphabet (mostly different for each country) and most of their words are not spelled with letters but with 'Word Blocks' (meaning 1 word=1 symbol) and/or syllable blocks, they do not use the standard Roman Alphabet (aka the QWERTY keyboard) as a form of input.. Most Chinese (Japanese and Korean as well) still use a 'graffiti' style character recognition , or Caligraphy Input, which (for obvious reasons) USES A STYLUS.
this is also the reason why HTC (et al) sticks with Resistive screens.. because, Styluses (as well as fingers) work well on resistive screens while capacitive screens works ONLY with fingers..
No, there are versions of the Capacitive Touch screen that has a flexible glass substrate that includes a resistive layer matrix under / or over the glass that responds to pressure...
So you can have best of both worlds. Stylus and Capacitive touch.
No, you wouldn't get the best of both worlds, you'd get two different input methods, making the screen dimmer, less responsive (because it would take more time figuring out which touch receptor you are using at that point), and more expensive.
Not to mention much more bulky.
Wow...that is a good point. I never thought about that in regards to the Asian market not wanting capacitive touchscreen. That being said, I find it near impossible to use a qwerty on-screen keyboard on a resistive screen. So, I guess the only real option that leaves us qwerty folks with is the awesome iPhone touchscreen or the awesome physical keyboard on phones like the HTC Touch Pro... I really liked my old HTC Hermes keyboard, and I really love my iPhone keyboard, but I cannot type on the LG Vu or the original HTC Touch...
It's resistive. Hence the stylus.