A hands on with the first Nokia TouchScreen phone finds that it is far less accurate than the iPhone.
Gizmodo had a chance to review the 5800 XpressMusic (aka Tube). The phone is the first touchscreen Symbian S60 phone from Nokia and is positioned as a music phone. It comes packaged with their all-you-can-eat (and keep) Comes With Music service.
"For a mid-range music phone with touch, though, the 5800 is pretty well equipped: 640x360 touchscreen with haptic response, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, 3G on the 850/1900 MHz band (works with AT&T here in the States), 3.2MP camera with Zeiss lens, and an 8GB microSD card for music in the box. But while the touchscreen is sharp and bright, it's resistive rather than capacitive, which means instead of accurately picking up the light zap of electricity from your fingertips, it registers where two thin layers of the screen get pushed together under your finger.
On the prototype we played with briefly, it's much harder to get touches to register, and far less accurate than the iPhone's capacitive screens. The 5800 packs a built-in stylus for this reason—you'll be using it a lot."
Gizmodo concludes that the device needs a bit more time in the oven before it can stand with the big guys for a touchscreen-only device.
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Gizmodo had a chance to review the 5800 XpressMusic (aka Tube). The phone is the first touchscreen Symbian S60 phone from Nokia and is positioned as a music phone. It comes packaged with their all-you-can-eat (and keep) Comes With Music service.
"For a mid-range music phone with touch, though, the 5800 is pretty well equipped: 640x360 touchscreen with haptic response, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, 3G on the 850/1900 MHz band (works with AT&T here in the States), 3.2MP camera with Zeiss lens, and an 8GB microSD card for music in the box. But while the touchscreen is sharp and bright, it's resistive rather than capacitive, which means instead of accurately picking up the light zap of electricity from your fingertips, it registers where two thin layers of the screen get pushed together under your finger.
On the prototype we played with briefly, it's much harder to get touches to register, and far less accurate than the iPhone's capacitive screens. The 5800 packs a built-in stylus for this reason—you'll be using it a lot."
Gizmodo concludes that the device needs a bit more time in the oven before it can stand with the big guys for a touchscreen-only device.
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