RIM goes for capacitive & resistive BlackBerry touchscreen patent
by The PocketBerry Team
It could be the end to the touchscreen dilemmas RIM has faced previously with the BlackBerry Storm 9500/9530. Seeing them go for this patent makes me lose confidence in the upcoming 9550 as TruePress may not be all what it should be if RIM is going through all this. So after seeing these sketches you may think that RIM has it all figured out and the touchscreen has been compromised. Wrong. The first issue is that capacitive displays are very expensive, far more than resistive ones. The second issue is accuracies and precisions with the resistive touchscreens.
Cooking something up like this calls for a very premium BlackBerry device, which I hardly doubt will debut at $199.99 ever. Check out the rough sketch above (click it to see full size).
-by Otoniel Bruno
Source: Unwired View
