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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Yes, all that hype that old Steve Jobs has created in the media about the superiority of capacitative screens... While in reality they have a lot of disadvantages, too. I have used both, and personally am quite happy with a good, responsive resistive screen like I have on my phone. The fact that you sometimes have to use a little pressure helps avoid accidental presses and I love being able to use the stylus or fingernail for clicking on links, etc. And for those who have real winters -- you even need special gloves for your iphones!
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I will say that really varies by device. The capacitive screen is better for a media consumption tablet like the iPad as it's just SUPER responsive for clicking things, swiping pages, scrolling etc.
But it's not as good as a resistive touch screen for stylus writing, a phone in cold weather (as you note etc.).
I'm really torn as I do want to mark up documents with a stylus, but at the same time I love the super responsive finger touching found on the iPad. And at the end of the day I'll use whatever tablet I by mainly for just reading, surfing, watching videos etc. I'd be lucky if 2% of the usage would be document mark up. So I really need to check out something like iAnnotate with a capacitive stylus I guess, and see if it's workable for me.
As I'm not sure I could give up the responsiveness of the touch screen of the iPad and other capacitive screens for better stylus writing that I wouldn't use that much. I hate the touch screen on my LG voyager for instance. It's resistive and just sucks compared to the iPhone screen etc.
If I can't write well on a capacitive screen tablet, I may just say the hell with marking up documents electronically and stick with printouts indefinitely and just get a tablet for media consumption purposes as I vastly prefer net surfing, video watching, reading etc. on the iPad to my laptop. Interface is just so slick for that stuff, and it's nice to get away from a PC or laptop with as much time as I spend on them doing work!