Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Capacitive Touch Screen and Resistive Touch Screen


 Touch  Phones has become very popular these days, and are sold in more quantities of mobiles regular keyboard. In this article you will learn about the types of touchscreens and the differences between them and how to choose the best.
There are two main types of touch screen mobile types are Capacitive Touch Screen and Resistive touch screen and the details of each of them:

Capacitive Touch

The most popular type, and its characteristics are:
Features:
- Does not require strong pressure, just a light touch.
- Supports multi-touch directly, any one or more two-finger touch.


Disadvantages:
- Requires touching the skin of the screen, meaning you can not use a pen or wearing gloves.
- Gives a better view of the screen in the sun
-  high Cost
As mentioned, this is the most popular type and more companies are moving him to the user's preference to him, are examples of this type: the iPhone - HTC HD 2 - Samsung - Nokia X6 - Sony Ericsson Xperia X10

Resistive touch

Was controlled in the past and it was almost the only type characteristics:
Features:
- More accurate.
- You can use a finger or stylus or wearing gloves.
- Less expensive.

Disadvantages:
- Requires stronger pressure.
- Does not support multi-touch directly.
- Given the weak vision to the screen in the sun


This type was used frequently in the past, and is still currently used some users, especially business users as the use of touch pen gives them the accuracy they find in the other type, but we find devices less and less of this kind of touch, examples of it: Nokia N 97 - Samsung Star - Sony Ericsson Xperia XZ
Why do you choose?
In fact, we see that it is better for the average daily user is Capacitive screen, where it is faster to respond to finger touches is the preferred method for most users, but if you want mobile and within your budget Resistive touch screen is used so be it, too

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