Nokia should remain Resistive

by Farhan on September 28, 2009

I’d been a big critic of Nokia for using Resistive screens on their Touch Screen Nokia 5800 Xpress Music and N97 phones , infatuated by my iPhone until a couple of days ago when I saw my mom using a Nokia 5800 .

As an Eid gift , I got my mom a Nokia 5800 Xpress Music and the first thing she asked me was to activate the menus in Urdu .  A couple of days ago I saw her using SMS and writing out the whole thing in URDU and there it hit me .

Writing Language Choose Urdu

Nokia phone supports more than 60 languages and is the only phone company which does so making it a truly global phone . With a resistive touch screen Nokia is enabling the masses unable to write English or forced to write their native language in Roman Characters to make use of their own language without learning complicated keyboard layouts .  The advantage , promotes learning , appreciation for one’s language and also EASE OF USE  ,  the main factor behind a phone’s success .

Writing UrduUrdu Writtenmy name in urdumessage created

Capacitive has it’s own advantages but for the masses , Nokia you should remain resistive

What’s your thoughts on the topic do inform

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  • danish moin

    my question is how do you turn the message box in black colour?

    Coming back to the topic….. I believe resistive touchscreens are good but only if you consider that they can support handwriting input. Other than that capacitive touchscreens win hands down.

    -> capacitve touchscreens have better clarity
    ->capacitve touchscreens generally give more fluid graphics (as in iphone)
    ->capacitve touchscreens feel solid to use as they are made from solid glass, resistive touchscreens feel like cheap plastic which bend when you press them.
    ->capacitve touchscreens are more responsive

    The list goes on.

  • http://www.senseapplied.com Farhan

    Danish , although the list is long when going resistive vs capacitive , my point of view is not for cosmetic reasons , looking into the practical world , imagine people using phones to take notes in their native language , sending them via MMS , syncing them with their PCs .
    People like my Ami , who are not fluent in English can now better communicate , write down their thoughts and manage their life as compared to graphics looking pretty on the screen

  • mantissa

    while you’ve stated that resistive might be better you’ve not provided any comparative on the matter. can you highlight why you found the resistive better under the circumstances? I suspect the same could have been accomplished as well using capacitive as well (be it with applying less pressure on-screen).

  • http://www.senseapplied.com Farhan

    Mantissa , I just checked on the iPhone ( Capacitive Screen ) , you cannot use a Stylus on it , and writing with Fingertips gets a little cumbersome else . The purpose of the post was not shunning the capacitive screen but bring out the usefulness of resistive for those who want to write instead of fumble around on the keyboard

  • taqiyuddin

    i agree with resistive being good for stylus. But capacitive enables multitouch. This, i think is one of the reason why iPhone makes a good gaming platform. However, i think the two technology should coexist.

    Nokia should create their higher end devices like N900 (and all their N range devices for the matter) to use capacitive. while lower end devices like XM5800 and its siblings should use resistive.

    I think this should work since, the higher end device being costlier and more techie will appeal to richer countries while the cheaper ones can reach countries the N-gages can’t.

  • Anis

    The same could be done on a capacitive touch screen!! if people find writing text (on the text recognition box) difficult using hands then electron conducive stylus should be made available by nokia..just like the taiwanese ;)

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