Droid Touchscreen Less Accurate Than iPhone's

gyrogeerloose writes "A test published by MOTO labs comparing the accuracy and sensitivity of smartphone touchscreens among various makers gave the iPhone top marks ahead of HTC's Droid Eris, the Google-branded Nexus One and the Motorola Droid. The test was conducted within a drawing program using a finger to trace straight diagonal lines across the screens and then comparing the results. While it's not likely that a smart phone user is going to draw a lot of lines, the test does give some indication of which phones are most likely to properly respond to clicking on a link in a Web browser."

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Re:What generation of Iphone is being compared her

[sznupi]

It's perfectly fair if that "3rd generation" product came out half a year before "disadvantaged" contenders.

BTW, why only big touchscreen devices? There were supposed to be, y'know, cheap ones with Android by now.

Re:Used "a program" ?

[Anonymous Coward]

"These aren't the results I wanted to see, therefore the methodology is flawed!"

Re:What's important

[calderra]

Precisely. Maybe the Nexus One is vastly superior at tracing circles. Neither of these results would say anything whatsoever about how the phone actually performs in click detection.

Ah, groupthink

[schmidt349]

If you spent five minutes looking at this outfit's methodology you'd realize that the test is sound, though perhaps a little exacting compared to real-world use cases. But what I love is that the first twenty posts or so basically all offered apologies for the Android phones and denigrated the significance of the test. They couldn't be better PR responses if Google and Motorola had drafted them. If you happen to use and like an Android device, why don't you just admit that it has a flaw and deal with it? God knows it probably isn't going to affect you under most usual circumstances.

I can't tell you for how long I was and still am pissed off about various missing features on the iPhone (auto-SMS, copy/paste, etc.) but I still like the device overall and use it. You don't have to hold this borderline view of the world in which computing devices are either God's work on Earth or Satan's playthings.

Re:Ah, groupthink

[jo_ham]

I was thinking the exact same thing, and if the results had been reversed and the Droid had been on top, we'd have had a flurry of posts talking about how the iPhone is an overpriced and inferior option.

I also have issues with my iPhone (lack of built in MMS initially, lack of cut and paste until recently, annoyance that you still can't sync up your ToDo items from iCal with the built in calendar app and have to rely on third party apps, annoyance that you have to manually disable wifi if are trying to use 3G in an area with a hotspot, where it will try to use that wifi, even if you don't have a password for it, or its one of those web login ones).

What's wrong with saying "the droid's touch sensitivity is less effective than I'd like"? It seems like droid users are just as zealous about their phones as they accuse iPhone users of being.

Re:So, restricted to capacitive screens

[Eunuchswear]

The point is resistive screens do "accuracy", capacitive screens do "responsive" and "multi touch".

They're testing screens for accuracy and they only look at machines with capacitative screens.

The iPhone has multi-touch, it beats the pants of the N900 for "responsiveness", but it's nowhere near as accurate.

Welcome to the world of the API

[SuperKendall]

Was the program written to the same quality in all platforms?

It's a DRAWING PROGRAM.

As in, they take in whatever pixel input the system gives them and spit them out on the screen. "Quality" does not enter into it, because they are all using the same API's that just have the OS feed them a stream of points.

It's representative of the quality of touch accuracy you will have in other apps because they, too, will just look at what points the OS is presenting the user as having touched.