Comment by seba_dos1
2 years ago
> The N900 had a resistive touchscreen, the Droid was capacitative.
N900 touchscreen was great. Not only was it perfectly readable in direct sunlight, it was also much more accurate than capacitive screens and not anywhere close to cheap resistive screens' clunkiness people usually imagine when hearing the term. The only issue I had with it was that they tend to develop issues after years of use, so my Nokia N900 does some very annoying ghosting these days.
True but the UI did often require the stylus to be pulled out. Compared to the capacitive screens it was pain to use. I did try and I used the N900 as a daily driver for a good couple of years but that UI wasn't designed for use without the stylus.
I still however miss Windows Phone, there were some major mis-steps by Microsoft (the intial side load / developer story) forcing a software break with the move to Windows Phone 8. However as a user provided you could live with the pre-installed apps it was a great phone.
> True but the UI did often require the stylus to be pulled out.
Interesting, I have used N900 for almost a decade and I found its stylus completely unnecessary, never used it. As mentioned earlier, the touchscreen started to be annoying to use in its final years once it started to misbehave, but before that I absolutely preferred it to capacitive screens as it was harder to trigger accidental touches with it.