@Anand Yeah, it does. Nokia claims they used a resistive touchscreen in the 5800 because Asian people don't like using their fingers with touch screens and would rather use stylii and "plectrums" (which apparently is a fancy name for a guitar pick) instead. I have a feeling that the cheaper price might have been a factor as well.
Not that Asian people don't "like" capacitive touch, but just the fact that capacitive touch technology supposedly has too poor a resolution for tiny menus that Nokia uses, and also for inputting Asian characters, supposedly.
The perfect solution would be an N-Trig solution- Capacitive + Electromagnetic (Wacom-esque), Win-Win. Except on the price, which is Nokia's main point-of-view.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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"this does us just about as much good as a Nokia with a resistive touch... ah, wait."
whats this suppose to mean?
Does it imply that the 5800 has a resistive touch screen?
@Anand Yeah, it does. Nokia claims they used a resistive touchscreen in the 5800 because Asian people don't like using their fingers with touch screens and would rather use stylii and "plectrums" (which apparently is a fancy name for a guitar pick) instead. I have a feeling that the cheaper price might have been a factor as well.
Resistive Touch is gonna be the reason I won't buy this phone. The world has moved on.
Not that Asian people don't "like" capacitive touch, but just the fact that capacitive touch technology supposedly has too poor a resolution for tiny menus that Nokia uses, and also for inputting Asian characters, supposedly.
The perfect solution would be an N-Trig solution- Capacitive + Electromagnetic (Wacom-esque), Win-Win. Except on the price, which is Nokia's main point-of-view.
CarrotAndStick : That was what I expected to get when I first saw the pictures. What a disappointment.