touchscreen width recognition - or is the N900 able to distinguish between thumb and stylus?

[qwazix]

Is the N900 able to distinguish between thumb and stylus? Does the controller return any width factor, or just a point?

If it does, (or if sb can think of a workaround to do it) then when a thumb clicks on an area of the page with multiple links (let's say the pager of this forum) the links would spread around in a circle to make selecting easier (or just zoom in)
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[crenquis]

I don't think that it can distinguish the difference...
I think that if more than one point is pressed -- like you would have with a thumb -- the screen just returns the mid-point as the selection.

[rambo]

the N8x0s distinguished between stylus and finger input (thumb on a text field and you would get thumbable on-screen keyword, use stylus and you would get a smaller one).

I'm faily sure the N900 could do that as well but the UI concept is completely different so they removed this feature from the OSK

[ToJa92]

As crenquis said, the screen probably only returns the exact pixel where the screen is pressed.