I have tried capacitive touch screen, my present phone has one and I hate every single minute of it, the lack of precision especially while browsing the web is really annoying... I've had my phone for 4 month and I'm sure that I will never get another capacitive touch screen ever again.

That's just it though... capacitive is only less acurate compared to resistive with a stylus. For the unwashed masses that want to use their whole finger for web browsing on a 3.5" screen, capacitive does seem more responsive and accurate, simply because there is no need to actually press, which leads to less of the finger hitting the display... You're going to continue to have a huge amount of people that want a 480x320 screen with huge icons, just because they want to mash all over the screen with their thumbs...

Glass is still scratchable. For example the higher end phones use a sapphire coating like high end watches as only something of the hardness of a diamond will scratch it, but there are still particles in brickwork, for example, that have this hardness and can scratch the sapphire crystal. I believe sand may have something similar but I forget offhand.

I have tried capacitive touch screen, my present phone has one and I hate every single minute of it, the lack of precision especially while browsing the web is really annoying... I've had my phone for 4 month and I'm sure that I will never get another capacitive touch screen ever again.

About the scratching on the screen, it will happen on any phone if you don't protect it, I have friends with iPhone 3G and 3GS and their screens and in an horrible state whereas when I sold my N800 that I had used for 1 year it didn't have a single one... so I guess it also depends a lot on how you use it.

One thing I used to do with my N800 and after that my 5800 is to take short notes on the screen, it's really convenient when you are in a hurry and need some details, I've been missing that a lot.

Resistive touch screen are getting better just look at the difference with the N900 compared to older technologies!

False. I use my thumbs with more precision on my resistive devices than I ever could on a capacitive one.

[...] "and the display got some awful scratches in just one day, and that's only because some sand grains got into the pocket I kept it in.