Counterclockwise: the touchscreen evolution

30 December 2018
The earliest touchscreens you may remember are probably the resistive kind, but there were curious experiments along the way.

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  • 31 Dec 2018

iKashif, 30 Dec 2018I used Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type, which has resistive touc... morePalm made resistive touch screens PDAs and they work, Nokia didn't do a good job with them.

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    • PA7
    • 31 Dec 2018

    Lets buy phone that has good contributionon on innovation so we will have better tech in future because manufacture put alot efforts on RnD

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      • Sk@
      • 31 Dec 2018

      The Ericsson R380 was a sublime device back in that time, with the huge touchscreen and stylus. My R380 still works but it has some touch problems in one corner.

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        • 31 Dec 2018

        Peter-B, 30 Dec 2018The R380 has been featured before, the first ever "smartpho... moreyes, cuz Sony back in 2002-2003 era, got in partnership with Ericsson so they used some of the technologies together.. but still i wonder for real why GSMArena didn't even mentioned the R380 in this article, back then R380 was costing a lot of money, if i can remember right the price was about 750-850 Euros range price, which was a huge price. And i'm so sure around 2000's era there wasn't a lot of touchscreen phones..

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          • 30 Dec 2018

          iKashif, 30 Dec 2018I used Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type, which has resistive touc... moreMost of the touchscreen phones by older Nokia were horrible. I had C7 and my friend had N8. Compared to iPhone(back then) they were almost useless.

            Viper, 30 Dec 2018i hoped that i would read about Ericsson R380 but nope.. ba... moreThe R380 has been featured before, the first ever "smartphone". I picked the P800 for its "keys push the touchscreen", but looking at the R380 now, it seems like it was using the same trick.

            https://www.gsmarena.com/counterclockwise_sony_ericsson_and_symbian_uiq_the_early_days_of_the_touchscreen_smartphone-news-25517.php

              I used Nokia X3-02 Touch and Type, which has resistive touch screen. The worst touch screen experience I ever have.

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                • Kiya
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                • 30 Dec 2018

                LG KF600 could be one of the very first touchscreen phones. Very interesting edition!

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                  • 8kE
                  • 30 Dec 2018

                  i hoped that i would read about Ericsson R380 but nope.. back in 1999-2000 era.. for me was the first touchscreen phone that i had seen back then, even back the R380 didn't use color display. Should had been mentioned at least honorable..

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                    • Anonymous
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                    • 30 Dec 2018

                    There is an iPhone on the surface

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                      • LEi
                      • 30 Dec 2018

                      they are worried about notches and infinity o display .....screens are fine touch screen related we need better cameras and battery life ... speed now days is decent .... and fit all customer display sizes mine is 5.5.

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