1. When a finger presses onto a resistive touchscreen sensor, it makes an actual electrical contact. The screen consists of a glass substrate topped by two layers of polyethylene terephthalate ...

In contrast to capacitive touch, a vast majority of resistive touchscreen phones won’t normally react at all to a very light swipe — the user has to exert some pressure to initiate action.

The capacitive vs. resistive touchscreen dispute has been more or less settled with the popularity of the iPhone and other lozenge-shaped touchscreen devices, but that doesn't mean the loser has ...

Touchscreens mainly use two common types of technology: capacitive and resistive. Capacitive screens detect the electrical properties of your finger, allowing for quick, precise touch response and ...

Resistive screens are “the workhorse of touchscreen technologies,” said Andrew Hsu, strategic and technical marketing manager at Synaptics, a company that specializes in touchscreen technologies.

Two breakthroughs in the touchscreen space could threaten capacitive’s perch at the top. Rohm is laying claim to the first resistive touch controller that can handle multi-touch, while Peratech ...

The 6.2" screen in the centre of the Wii U controller is likely to use the same resistive technology that features in the DS and 3DS consoles, rather than the more advanced capacitive system used ...

Research in Motion has filed for a patent for a touchscreen that combines the technology behind resistive and capacitive touchscreen displays. The scren would use a dual layer resistive panel, but ...

A common use of resistive tech is in ATMs, checkout stands and terminals — the hard plastic top layer makes them much more durable than capacitive ones (but less responsive). Capacitive touchscreen ...

Remember when everything had a capacitive touchscreen, and we decided we really hated those and we wanted resistive ones that required styluses? Me neither. That's why I'm a little puzzled as to ...

Resistive touchscreen panels get a bad rep these days, both because they can’t recognize fingertip input as easily as capacitive touch panels and for because many people have the mistaken belief ...