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The real question is: how much are people willing to pay for a tablet. If they are only willing to pay $150, then a Nexus 7 is not on the list. That is particularly true if the Edifi does what the person needs it to. Some people may also add value to the Edifi because of the "family-friendly" bit. Different people look at the value of a product in a different way. Just because you personally don't see the value, doesn't mean that everyone else agrees with you.
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The basic difference between resistive and capacitance is cost and responsiveness. Especially for gestures, such as scrolling swipes.
Capacitance is more responsive and better suited for multitouch applications. High quality resistive exists that can do multitouch and be very responsive as well as accurate but you don't see it in low cost devices. The value of this reader clearly isn't the hardware but rather that it comes pre-configured for their target audience; you could easily tweak any other Android device for filtered browsing and their ebook reader app, but you would have to know how to do it and where to find the apps. They are, in effect, bundling a service. For people needing or wanting that kind of filtering the price is not execessive. Not my cup off tea but I do understand where they're coming from: they know *their* market and what *their* customers prefer. |
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Resistive touch displays are single touch only, and usually have some thin flexible layer over the screen that have to be pressed down. When the layer makes contact, a circuit is completed and the resistance value of the current in the circuit is measured and used to calculate position. Capacitive displays have an invisible layer that small amount of electrical charge is stored on. When you touch, the charge is transfered to you, and the loss of charge is measured. The positive part of capacitive displays, is that there are no moving parts, and you can have it done in a way to allow for multiple touch points (not possible on resistive).
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Actually, Multi touch resistive sensors have been around since (IIRC) 2009. But they are still prone to wear and are only about 80% transparent.
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I wouldn't say they are any more hackish than trying to extrapolate a single pixel line through a path of sensors that only respond to conductive elements that are about .2" diameter
![]() The ones I've tried were quite good and allowed 5 touch points at a time, gesture use and stylus. They were retrofitted into industrial HMIs, meant for use where the operators wore gloves, so yes, the multi-touch gestures had to be a little more pronouced than with a capacitive touch screen. I was very impressed with them. |
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Plus, the biggest use is in games. Tablets generally don't really have any buttons, many games are implementing a pseudo controller set up, with an on screen direction pad, and buttons. If multi touch wasn't a possibility, they would have to have some sort of hardware controller to even play the simplest of traditional style video games (even Space Invaders, or Galaxian, both available for tablets and phones would not be playable). |
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Speaking of maps, will it point you to the nearest Chik-fil-A?
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Probably not. No GPS, and no Google Maps, so you'd have to get your own mapping software. I also don't think it has bluetooth, so you can't use an external GPS sensor.
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