RIM patent filing reveals hybrid capacitive / resistive touchscreens
RIM's no stranger to playing different tricks with touchscreens, and it looks like it may have another up its sleeve, with a recent patent application revealing some plans for a hybrid capacitive / resistive touchscreen. As you might expect, the idea here is to take the best aspects from each and form one super touchscreen, which would have the general usability and "goodness" of capacitive displays, and the added benefits of a resistive screen, like better support for stylus-based input. Of course, such a screen would also likely eliminate one of the biggest advantages of resistive displays -- their cost-effectiveness -- so it seems safe to assume that it'd be reserved for higher-end phones to start with.
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Jes5e @ Aug 5th 2009 1:21PM
Wouldn't it also have the added feature of working with the current storm input paradigm without requiring mechanical movement of the screen to click. Meaning that with this hybrid screen you would touch to highlight a menu item, and then push harder to select, like on the storm.
junior wizzy @ Aug 5th 2009 6:46PM
in leyman's terms, when using the browser, can this thing allow me to select FFM on pornhub.com versus having me accidentally goto the Preggo page?
cody @ Aug 5th 2009 5:47PM
yea this would be great for the new storm instead of that stupid button screen..probably something they are trying to go for in the future