Capacitive works with your bare finger touching the screen.
While resistive is not so easy with skin-touch. Instead you can use a stylus.
Or a glove. Any object will do which exerts an appropriate amount of pressure.
Capacitive does not work with a stylus. Or a glove. (I have been told)
Hence: Cold = Glove-Time = resistive over capacitive
But now most people prefer capacitive over resistive because:
- multi gestures
- iPhone has it. As most of the other smartphones around
- no need of a stylus which some people are good at loosing
- other ...
Sep 5 2010: A stripped down version working with a mobile is done here:
https://projects.forum.nokia.com/ThinkContacts
It works with a neurosky headset, which is more basic than the epoc.
Seems to be for home use only, and not a solution to the winter glove problem.
And it's still a very basic application.
However, in a few years ...
Another way to approach the winter glove problem, I heard, would be to use a phone with a resistive screen, instead of capacitive. Which nobody really wants.
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My mobile has a resistive touchscreen, surface is glass. Nothing is soft.
It works so well, even when using the finger to navigate. I would never ever want a capacitive screen.
A reply on Talk: Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves
Capacitive works with your bare finger touching the screen.
While resistive is not so easy with skin-touch. Instead you can use a stylus.
Or a glove. Any object will do which exerts an appropriate amount of pressure.
Capacitive does not work with a stylus. Or a glove. (I have been told)
Hence: Cold = Glove-Time = resistive over capacitive
But now most people prefer capacitive over resistive because:
- multi gestures
- iPhone has it. As most of the other smartphones around
- no need of a stylus which some people are good at loosing
- other ...
A reply on Talk: Tan Le: A headset that reads your brainwaves
https://projects.forum.nokia.com/ThinkContacts
It works with a neurosky headset, which is more basic than the epoc.
Seems to be for home use only, and not a solution to the winter glove problem.
And it's still a very basic application.
However, in a few years ...
Another way to approach the winter glove problem, I heard, would be to use a phone with a resistive screen, instead of capacitive. Which nobody really wants.