Droid has the worst touch screen?? How so!?

[Adrynalyne]

That has to be one of the worst designed experiments ever.

1. A human finger testing is too big of a variable.
2. One phone each to test is too few samples.
3. Different software between each device ends up tainting results.

For what its worth, my own Droid test is below. The lines arent exactly straight. I will lend that to me being human, and capacitive screens not meant for drawing A whole lot better than they showed though.

 

[ardoreal]

Quoting the testers:



And don't worry, I still love my Droid.

Working in the electrical field I've got some other stuff to chime in here too....

Apple found the best balance between sampling rate, sensor spacing, and registering ohms. Different voltages will register ohms differently on a circuit. If your voltage is too low, ohms generally are a more reliable way to see what's going on in a circuit. In the case of these touchscreens they're simplistically just checking ohms between points on a grid under glass.

I've actually taken the time to measure the distance between sensors on the wiring grid on the iPhone and Droid and the spacing is the same. What I have no idea of is the voltages or sampling rates or what it's hardwired to. If they haven't used the best voltage, this is the best it's going to get. From what it appears this is voltage related because the slow motion of the finger is suppose to get as close to hardware capability as possible. Sampling data points as much as possible occurs on a slow moving finger, and the slower the movement the same type of squiggles occur.

For all we know they have almost the exact same hardware and the algorithms differ in the controller between what Apple and Motorola use.

Either way, it's pretty clear that Apple has a superior setup. Nobody needs to get bent out of shape about it.

 

[Adrynalyne]

The only thing clear is that the testing was that it was a horribly flawed method and unscientific.

 

[Jeremy]

The only thing clear is that the testing was that it was a horribly flawed method and unscientific.

Please read what I said a few posts ago. The OP only posted a link that showed a single test. There were multiple tests done not shown but explained in a link I provided.

Hope this helps explain things a bit better.

 

[Adrynalyne]

If its not flawed, then why can't I come up with the same results?

Since when do the same programs that run on the iPhone, run on Android? Not all programs work or perform the same.

Since when can a human finger provide the same exact result, every time, every phone?

Too many variables to make a real test. There has to be a better way.

 

[Adrynalyne]

Jeremy,

I have read the article. It says nothing of their population sample of phones. For all I know they used one of each?

I am sorry, but I do not find that to be a valid test, even if more was done behind the scenes. If I missed it, please highlight it for me.

Thanks.

 

[ardoreal]

Jeremy,

I have read the article. It says nothing of their population sample of phones. For all I know they used one of each?

I am sorry, but I do not find that to be a valid test, even if more was done behind the scenes. If I missed it, please highlight it for me.

Thanks.

I'm getting some fairly consistent results. I have an iPhone still and this testing methodology is not going to be perfect...but it's going to help you as a consumer while evaluating a product. On better hardware you will get more consistent results. True, that some people have a more stable hand than others, you'd still be able to corroborate your movement to what should happen on the screen.

 

[prometheus]

Touch screen sensitivity is (to me) not the most important aspect of a pda's overall appeal.

Its the whole package - I held a Jesus phone (iPhone) in my hands for about 1 minute. So, I'm not able to compare. But, for me droid's screen works fine.

I guess if you've never had steak, hamburger is great.

 

[BoNg420]

Article is probably by an apple fanboy.

 

[Jeremy]

Wow, nobody is saying the Droid screen is bad. It simply is a tad less accurate and sensitive than a few other phones. Not a big deal people.

 

[ardoreal]

wow, nobody is saying the droid screen is bad. It simply is a tad less accurate and sensitive than a few other phones. Not a big deal people.

but my muney went to teh bestarest place!@!!!!!!

 

[Roy Aguilera]

We ran the same test and the screen is not as bad as that test indicates. If you have swype, straight lines look pretty straight. I hate these comparisons, they are always poorly done.

 

[ardoreal]

We ran the same test and the screen is not as bad as that test indicates. If you have swype, straight lines look pretty straight. I hate these comparisons, they are always poorly done.

I've noticed that actually, although my finger is generally pretty fast when using Swype.

 

[searsmd]

no offense, but if you use a drawing program designed for our phone's high resolution you can make your lines perfectly straight. But yeah if you run a program that was designed for a lo-res screen your going to have problems when you port it up to ours. I have absolutely no problems drawing straight lines on my phone, in fact I think they are straighter.

 

[ardoreal]

no offense, but if you use a drawing program designed for our phone's high resolution you can make your lines perfectly straight. But yeah if you run a program that was designed for a lo-res screen your going to have problems when you port it up to ours. I have absolutely no problems drawing straight lines on my phone, in fact I think they are straighter.

I take pride in mah straightness.....

and I totally mean that for the lines on my phone

 

[darreno1]

Article is probably by an apple fanboy.

Bingo! I've seen lots of other tests with completely different results. Anyway if you need a test like this to tell the difference between two touchscreens then it's really a none issue.

This reminds of the engadget article showing the iphone winning the browser test by a wide margin when every other test I've seen (including my own) have been the opposite.

 

[searsmd]

This reminds of the engadget article showing the iphone winning the browser test by a wide margin when every other test I've seen (including my own) have been the opposite.[/QUOTE]

Yeah even the stock browser is awesome. I assume we're all using dolphin by now though. I actually enjoy surfing the web on my phone. It was more like a chore before.

 

[sirlancelot323]

Saw this on TUAW.com

They posted this test on TUAW, and the wording they used there might as well have been "Niener niener, I have an iPhone and you don't. So bleah."

It started out with "something to rub in that annoying friend who keeps waving the droid around you and says 'It's just like the iPhone!' 's face", and that to me screams "fanboyish", not "objective".

Safari (iPhone's mobile browser) beats the living SNOT out of the Droid's native browser(2.0.1 made it choppy and slow as hell), but the Droid's screen, customizability, and expandability blow the iPhone out of the water.