Okay so I'm coming from an LG Dare with the pressurized touch screen. It sucked because I type extremely fast and the keyboard couldn't keep up with me. I found out that the iPhone uses some kind of multi touch thing that takes the electricity out of your hands to use the touch screen. Anyway I was wondering if the droid x keyboard would be like the one on the iphone. Would it be fast enough to keep up with fast writers? I really hope there is no lag or delay since it has 512 mb of ram lol.
Multi touch keyboard on a Droid x.
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What you're thinking of is the difference between capacitive and resistive touch screens. The LG Dare has a resistive, like most lower end touch screens, which, as the name implies, works because you actually press the screen in a little bit when you make contact with your finger. This is why it is difficult to scroll or make light touchs on your screen.
Capacitive screens, which most Android phones, including the X have, work off an electric current produced by your body, this is why you can't use gloves while touching the phone or a stylus. This technology means that the phone can have a smooth glass screen as well. Also, capacitive touch screen open up phones to multitouch. The Droid X keyboard goes beyond most phones actually in that it has a multitouch keyboard. This means it will operate much like a regular keyboard (i.e. you can hold down shift with one finger and type capital letters with the other).
This isn't the most scientifically accurate description, but I hope it helps a little.
This Wikipedia article does an okay job of laying out both kinds.
Touchscreen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Capacitive screens, which most Android phones, including the X have, work off an electric current produced by your body, this is why you can't use gloves while touching the phone or a stylus. This technology means that the phone can have a smooth glass screen as well. Also, capacitive touch screen open up phones to multitouch. The Droid X keyboard goes beyond most phones actually in that it has a multitouch keyboard. This means it will operate much like a regular keyboard (i.e. you can hold down shift with one finger and type capital letters with the other).
This isn't the most scientifically accurate description, but I hope it helps a little.
This Wikipedia article does an okay job of laying out both kinds.
Touchscreen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oh thank you so much! I was worried that it was going to be delayed and laggy but now I see that its not. Its taking forever to be july 15 lol.
Swype is the ****....give it a couple years and everyone will be swyping and you can say bye bye to physical keyboards
I thought of something else. Is the screen bright and will you be able to adjust the brightness of the screen.
My hubby has the Rogue and his touch screen drives me INSANE!!! I have an ipod touch so trying to use phone after playing with my ipod sucks!!! I have played with my SIL's droid and my nephew Incredible and both have pretty decent touch screens!! I cant wait for the X!!!
Yea there's a post around about a pc mag article which shows screen comparisons and the dx seemed to do pretty well in brightness.
I'm coming from the Storm 1 to the Droid X and I'm really looking forward to the multi-touch keyboard on the X. But from all the Youtube videos of the X.....it looks like I finally have found a phone that will be able to keep up with the speed of my texting.
I thought of something else. Is the screen bright and will you be able to adjust the brightness of the screen.
It is very nicely lit, and there is also a widget on one of the stock home screens that lets you choose brightness by repeatedly tapping, as well as letting you set it to auto based on your current lighting.
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there used to be a link for mutitouch keyboard for 2.1 users but it doesnt seem to work for 2.2 any love? it was for non rooted phones pages back in the driod x hacks. i still have the caller id and the wireless phone to pc and the wallpapers but the multitouch keyboard wont open anymore,
I'm interested to see which keyboard I end up using most. Currently I use swype almost exclusively. I'm moving about a lot and swype is the best one handed typing method I've used since T9. I'm just hoping the multitouch keyboard is sufficient for those long typing sessions.
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