jlp

The very bad thing about passive touch screens is that the digitizer wears out after a while.

I've had PDAs for 10 years now since my Newton MP 110 and ALL of them have suffered from jiggs after a few months of use. Needless to say that it badly influences character recognition or pressing accuracy.

The worst case has been my 3 Dell Axim X5 I went thru in about a year; the first one only lasted barely over one month and the latter was so bad I had to recalibrate the screen a few times a day; and it always activated icons or menus located 2 items off from where I was tapping. It's my 4th one now in barely over a year.

In the case of the OQO, for example, the active digitizer is located behind the screen, and as such unarmed by stylus repeating touches.

I expect that thanks to the different technology and the way they are implemented active digitizers will never suffer from jiggs.

maximus

:rotfl:

Well, my mistake. Thanks for reminding me

Janak Parekh

A long while -- my results vary from yours. My 3870 is still going strong. My 3650 was still OK, although its battery has worn out too much to be of any use anyway.

There's something wrong there.

However, the surface of the OQO that we saw at CeBIT seemed to bend substantially with each touch -- it almost felt like it would break. You also had to apply considerable pressure for a "click" to register. I hope they fix that before end-user units arrive.

--janak