Nokia asks own blog readers what their favorite part of the X6 is, gets funny answer
By Paul Miller 
posted December 1st 2009 9:05AM
posted December 1st 2009 9:05AM
posted December 1st 2009 9:05AM
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They didn't shun the displays, they were BETRAYED by samsung and assorted companies.
Don't you read your own news?
-This post was made possible by The Committee To Get Fins To Call Themselves Scandinavians (or: TCTGFTCTS).
@Wwhat
Why would you want Finns to call themselves Scandinavian?
It's like getting Morrocanians to call themselves European.
I'm mocking myself because in a comment to the previous 'nokia vs asus and other displaymakers' article I mistakenly called finland scandinavian, and rather than being wrong we could simply make it so ;)
@Wwhat
Oh right, in that case I approve. I shall forward an invasion strategy to my government immediatly!
It's = It is.
"Its" is the possessive. Guess the creator of this poll is as big an idiot as the people he is laughing at.
There's nothing about a phone design that prevents a resistive touchscreen from being the best aspect. The survey says absolutely nothing about anything outside of the phone itself. It simply asks, of all the qualities listed here that are qualities of this particular phone, what is the one you would rank highest. To say that this means anything about the technology underlying the particular qualities is fallacious.
I really think the unbalanced opinion about capacitative touch screen technology is somewhat bizarre and is simply due to its sudden emergence in consumer technology. Any implementation of either technology can have characteristics that are helpful in some situations and unhelpful in others. Standing blindly in support of capacitative vs. resistive is like being blindly supportive of GSM vs. CDMA, or chemotherapy vs. radiation therapy, or super-glue vs. Elmer's glue.
If you like interacting with your phone using fingers, that's fine. Either technology can produce that effect. Capacitative is finally inexpensive enough for regular people to enjoy, but it's also inaccurate relative to resistive. And yet people want high resolution as well, which increases the value of precise interaction -- which sways the pendulum back to resistive. But then it will become apparent that sometimes a finger responsive interface is good, and sometimes a highly precise interface is good. Etc.
People should focus more on how technology is used, and then what means exist to achieve certain goals.
Wouldnt it be grand if it was possible to downmod or rank the engadget staffs post as well as the readers comments? Or even hide the posts by some of the more trolling editors.
@mnotme
Engadget editors, meeklings that they are, need somewhere where they get to be the silver backs.
Welcome to their little jungle.
@mnotme
You seek the capacity to resist I gather.
Well duh :)
My poll says that engadget editors are a bunch of douche bags that cant see outside of their own mediocrity...
We should rename this blog to: Enkindergarden...
-look, he did a mistake in spelling, HA HA!
if capacitive came out first, and resistive was the newer tech, would they be telling everyone that resistive is better because it's newer?
or maybe if the iphone used a resistive screen, then that would make it the best, right?
hmm... there exists a screen that can only be pressed with my finger directly and cannot support high resolutions, and there is another screen that can be pressed with my finger, stylus, plectrum, nail, or whatever I want to use and it is highly accurate to where I could click a link that is just a period.
duh! the first one obviously sounds better! i can't believe what morons would think the latter was better. i'm going to tell the world about how much better the first one is. and i'm going to bash any device that uses anything else. *sarcasm*
What grammar problem?
Setup: The best thing about the Nokia X6 is...
Response: It is looks. (14%)
Makes syntactic sense to me, no matter how maladroit it sounds.
I want to see an OLED touch screen from Nokia.
And where is "its price" option?
Oh, wait, I forgot unlocked phone costs arm, leg and half of liver...
@(Unverified) The difference between unlocked and locked is as if the carrier would every month, for 2 or 3 years, you choose the length of your torture, come to your house cut a piece of your limb, rape you and still make you believe "its not that bad".
Either way they make money my friend. Its just a matter of taste of losing an entire limb at once or bit by bit.
I have to agree about unlocked phones costing an arm, leg and various other body parts. But since we are removing body parts, I would like to have less of them mutilated and at once rather than slowly taking away most of them and your sanity (locked functions) in 1-2 years (contract) as in LOCKED phones. :)
Well, my wife always complains about capacitive screens, since she's totally unable to use them with long nails. She'd like an iPhone but that's out of the question and wishes Apple came out with a resistive version.
@DefPoet
Did you mean -15°?
Because at 15° you don't really wear gloves, do you.. :P
@Endadget DefPoet doesn't mention where he/she lives, though mentions it is cold in Finland. Where I live, I darn sure wear gloves when it is +15° F, and it is a pain to have to take them off to even answer my iPhone. The screen on my resistive HTC Pure is easily as responsive as my iPhone's, BTW.
what is the meaning of capacative?
@magallanes
It's the opposite of resasitive.
Sorry, I mean "its".
Hey Engadget! Let's see how YOU do with Finnish pronouns. Something tells me you'll be begging for mercy in less time than it takes to misplace an apostrophe.
Engadget, your Nokia hate is ridiculous. Stop with the resistive blabber ... just as you acknowledged, in 2009 it's pretty damn hard to tell the difference (aside from the fact that I don't have to use my finger to use my phone).
Btw, there isn't a better smartphone on the market than the Nokia N900 and it is rocking the 800x480 resistive-beaut!