RIM applies for patent on combination capacitive/resistive touchscreen
0. phoneArena posted on 05 Aug 2009, 11:14
By combining the best of both styles of touchscreen, the result is a display that responds quickly to the touch with more precision...
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1. Mr_LaZy posted on 20 Oct 2010, 01:43 0 0
Sorry RIM, but I'm pretty sure China has made one of their MP4 players with this technology. It was a fail tech, but if that company (called Chuwi I think?) made a patent for this already, be prepared for a lawsuit ;x Though I would be happy if RIM could and most likely would pull off a much better screen.
3. drewsky posted on 05 Aug 2009, 15:33 0 0
Why is china always ahead of us?...LOL I like the technology though.
2. VSS_55 posted on 05 Aug 2009, 14:04 0 0
CHINA suing someone for patent infringement?!? that'll be the day... Im sure its diffrent enough from there system that it dosent matter. there have been a couple instances of similar designs, but none so far have caught on.
5. MTLance (unregistered) posted on 05 Aug 2009, 20:20 0 0
lol, true, I mean that company worth way less than American or European companies. Anyway I find that sometimes I just hate my iPhone 3GS without the stylus use, especially web pages because capacitive means you can press anywhere.
6. comnut1 posted on 08 Aug 2009, 05:06 0 0
:) on a technical note, it is not 'conductance of skin' that makes the screens work(if it was, a *special* stylus could be made for it!!), it is the 'large saline container' effect, that increases the local capacitance to make it work.... - If you have an *old* AM/FM radio(tuned to a weak station) with a big metal aerial, you will see the signal change when you touch this.. :) You say the Samsung's Jet feature phone has R-Resistive which is supposed to combine the best of capacitive and resistive screens - would you know if the others (omniaHD, etc..) have similar??
