Comments on: Multi-touch comes to resistive touchscreens

By: Chris Blasko

Chris Blasko — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 03:39:16 +0000

@dizimatt I know what you mean, those are the old type. See these vids: http://bit.ly/hx9fpu and http://bit.ly/KpgXo

By: Lee Dumond

Lee Dumond — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:39:59 +0000

Interesting – didn't know resistive touchscreens could support multi-touch http://bit.ly/aWjgwB

By: johnV

johnV — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:15:55 +0000

@ George – talking about sweaty hands, that’s the reason why touch screen phones that also double as barcode scanners in warehouses and field-based operations use resistive touch screen displays.

In Asian countries, where most people need to scribble characters (e.g. Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans), a stylus-enabled phone is a must… and we know how terrible capacitive touch screens are when it comes to using those.

Personally, I think resistive touch screen phones are here to stay but they’re going to target a different niche from the capacitive-enabled ones. Here are 10 phones that are all resistive: http://touchscreenstoday.com/phones/top-10-resistive-touch-screen-phones. Most of them have been pretty successful in the market, so not everyone is really looking for an iPhone.

By: George

George — Sun, 23 May 2010 13:25:20 +0000

Well I see why many today are proponent of capacitive displays, but honestly, for users like me with sweaty hands, capacitive screens are a nightmare; i’ve used both the iphone and hd2, and the sweat left over on the screen from my thumbs actually registers as screen clicks.

It’d be great if they made resistive better.

By: Reg3e

Reg3e — Sun, 16 May 2010 10:04:57 +0000

He said it possible to adapt this onto existing phones… does that include SE viva? 5800xm? n900?

By: Mehmet Emre ATASEVER

Mehmet Emre ATASEVER — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:56:28 +0000

http://www.umpcportal.com/2009/02/multi-touch-comes-to-resistive-touchscreens/

By: Ivan daniel

Ivan daniel — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:48:55 +0000

multitouch on resisteve touch screen. looks very good http://bit.ly/T5zH6

By: Ching-Yao Yu ℠

Ching-Yao Yu ℠ — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:31:41 +0000

@DonnyBenfield and don’t say resistive doesn’t do multi-touch, because it does. http://bit.ly/T5zH6

By: swanin

swanin — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:11:42 +0000

Really a great !!

I am sure, you are able to solve many many technology challenge by using this. I will really for the moment to see it in commercial
market.

Keep on doing.

I am also working on Multi touch technology.
Lets see future.
~
swanin

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By: Higher LCD TVs

Higher LCD TVs — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 22:25:55 +0000

There is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points here. Thanks!

By: Vampirecat

Vampirecat — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:52:13 +0000

Handwriting recognition should improve. I can see this taking off in tablet convertibles…now if only they’d develop bigger versions. The company’s site shows a 3.5-inch screen as their largest product. Personally, I thought the use of a paintbrush showed high sensitivity and that zoom-in with the stylus demo was pretty accurate.

By: Christian Kurz

Christian Kurz — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:30:16 +0000

This one might be perfect if the onscreens keyboard works well:
http://www.umpcportal.com/products/USI/MID-160

By: Christian Kurz

Christian Kurz — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:28:36 +0000

While again reading through the information on the viliv x70 i have to admit that there actually IS an application which should improve with Multitouch:
On Screen Thumbkeyboards. Though, these are generally useless without capacitive Touchscreens wich renders this technology no more useful.

Though, if they really get it right with the on screen thumb keyboards i might be considering a slate style device in the future. They would have to get rid of that bezel around the screen though (as HTC did with their newer phones – touchscreens wich are completly flat with the rest of the device).

By: Christian Kurz

Christian Kurz — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:21:51 +0000

What really matters with this news is if it will become avaible on existing phones.
For new phones you could always use a capacitve touchscreen if you would want multitouch but changing the touchscreen in existing phones is an awful task to must normal users. I would really like to install this software on some of my organizers/phones.

On the other hand i dont see any real advantege in having multitouch. Sure it is somehow better than nothaving it but there are few programs which are actually faster/easier/in general better to use with multitouch.
At the moment, Multitouch is just a nice feature to show off in front of your friends.