While Nokia wouldn't invite us to Nokia World this year, we were fortunate enough to discover a pair of its new X6 handsets on the IFA floor here in Berlin. On hand were two engineering prototypes, one of which was peeling away from its plastic shell while the other seemed less responsive to our finger-taps. Still, it's clear that the
capacitive touchscreen is far more responsive to human touch than the resistive screens found on its N97, or the
5800 XpressMusic especially. This was made abundantly clear when using the on-screen keyboard although some of our swiping gestures were inexplicably ignored in other elements of the interface. But given the choice of the screen being awesome or super-awesome (remember, we're comparing it to Nokia's resistive touchscreen legacy), we'll have to settle on the former for now. Of course, underneath you've still got S60 5th, for
better or worse, pumping away inside a chubby little candybar -- no screen tech can change that. See the action in the video after the break then jump into the gallery to see it sized up with a few of its S60 cousins five times removed.
posted Sep 5th 2009 9:54AM
that is pretty good, but then again its Nokia, they always set the standard!
too bad Blackberry storm didnt have a touch screen like this
"Proof that Capacitive Screens Are Better..."
NOT!
"Nokia wouldn't invite us to Nokia World this year"
OWNED!!!!!!
Maybe they read the Iphone fanboys comments to every Nokia article, LOL
Mr Ricker, I don't even think you know what "capacitive touchscreen" means, and the embedded video surely doesn't support the column title - Fail!