When it comes to capacitive touchscreens – like the displays found on the Apple iPhone and the Google Nexus One – it’s not always just about solving, blind size of it, or whether it’s OLED or LCD. It’s good to keep in mind that a large touchscreen doesn’t do you much good if it’s not accurately interpreting your digit inputs. Well, thanks to MOTO Labs’ new touchscreen accuracy tests, we now know how the venerable iPhone and the new Nexus One carnival against the popular Motorola (New York Stock Exchange: MOT test) Droid when it comes to touchscreen truth and sensitivity.
MOTO pitted the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone, HTC Droid Eris, Motorola Droid, and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Nexus One against each other in two rounds of testing to comparability each handset’s touchscreen accuracy. The tests used a draft app on each headphone to tracing the path of finger inputs on the touchscreens as it moved diagonally across the exhibit. The first base trial used light source press to mimic light finger-flicks and flitting taps on the on-screen keyboard. The second base trial used metier press to simulate heavier digit inputs, like scrolling through a webpage. The distributor point of the test were to determine how closely the lines drawn on the blind matched up with the actual way of digit inputs.
The results? In both the light- and medium-pressure tests, the iPhone showed precise lines that “indicate accurate representation of finger path,” piece exhibiting some deprivation of sensitiveness at the edges of the display. Both the Google Nexus One and HTC Droid Eris showed a “fairly linear track, with some waviness,” putting both phones in the runner-up situation bottom the iPhone – which makes sense, seeing as how both phones ar made by HTC. The worst touchscreen of the lot was the Motorola Droid, which resulted in a “step-stepping” pattern and “waviness” that indicates “inaccuracies in tracking travel of digit.
The takeaway here is that “all touchscreens are not created compeer.” All other factors (cost, operating organization, steel loyalty, etc.) being equal, if you wish an accurate touchscreen, Apple’s iPhone is your topper wager. If you’re willing to trade with a little inaccuracy in trade for a larger, crisper exhibit, the Nexus One will be your phone of choice. For example, it’s easier to accurately pat a small embedded link on webpages without zooming in using an iPhone than it is on the Nexus One.
Check out the full psychoanalysis at MOTO – they have video recording too!
Note: MOTO is not related to Motorola. It wouldn’t make gumption for Motorola to publicize the Droid’s subscript touchscreen performance compared to the Nexus One and iPhone.
[Via: MOTO]
