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Old 05-20-2008, 10:11 AM   #9
M.H.
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Does anyone know that this means:



Wacom-type touch screens, such as are used on the iLiad and on Tablet PCs, can certainly be used for handwriting recognition. Is this not what's meant by "capacitive touch panels"?
I think they mean that a plastic stylus will not work with a capacitive touch panel rather than handwriting recognition itself (the assumption being that you will want to write with a plastic stylus so as not to scratch the display). The plastic stylus will work with the resistive touch panel but the light transmission is too low to use on a reflective display. If it is only 80% transmissive and the light has to pass through it twice then one third of the light is lost.
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