So anyone who is blaming its phone not having multitouch while it should be, blame Apple.
Apple only patented the gestures AFAIK. Multitouch capability rests with the inventors of capacitive touchscreen. Resistive is not capable of multitouch (although stantum have done it).
On the other hand you can only use your fingers or an inaccurate stylus with capacitive. No more painting/drawing and you'd have to zoom in to press small buttons in websites. If you live in cold areas, you can't wear gloves.
I prefer resistive. Pressure sensitivity and precision (thanks to the stylus) are bigger advantages than multitouch and a little more sensitivity. N900's sensitivity is quite good. Lack of stylus will prevent such games like Mystery Case Files, which is awesome on the DS. Lack of multitouch can be compensated with a keyboard.
The perfect screen would be a touchscreen that can be used with any object, has the capacitive's sensitivity and multitouch. But until that day, I prefer resistive. I hope some future smartphone (or mobile computer if you prefer) will be resistive (or hopefully use stantum's screen).
I hope future devices will be able to be used by a precise stylus. Everything is capacitive nowadays. The resistive screen is one of the things that made me choose the N900.
Good question. There are three major patent registration offices, USPO is only one of them, if you paid enough, any patent lawyer can help you file your patient to all offices, including China patent office. So we would not be surprised to see big corp like Apple and MS could file all their patents to all patent offices around the world.
Even when the patent is only filed at USPO, the patent owner can still file lawsuit against patent infringement in countries joint WTO(under some condition I skip here). Say, which major mobile market isnt under WTO?
Ask india, who is the major victim of uncountable patent infringement lawsuits, ever since they joint WTO.
I see. It even gets more complicated considering that not all types of patents are legal everywhere, e.g. software patents...
Awesome! N900 is doing pretty good. To share this, i have both galaxy s and the n900 but with no thinking twice trice or dice my vote is cast on tue n900. Hooh haah!
I dont know about galaxy but i have N900..So i have voted for N900 which is a biased vote.
I have both and have to say the SGS is a more acomplished device. They are different and each with flaws and qualities but on day to day use my vote goes for the Samsung. And I want the N900 to suceed, I really do!
