“Apple has by far the best touchscreen accuracy of any smartphone maker, a new round of MOTO testing has discovered. A follow-up on the finger-only test has used a robot to gauge the absolute accuracy and has found that only the iPhone’s touchscreen could draw consistently straight lines on most of the screen,” Electronista reports. “The Nexus One was second but still produced wavy lines, a behavior that also carried over to the Droid Eris.”
“Other devices performed noticeably worse or had mixed results,” Electronista reports. “The BlackBerry Storm2 and Palm Pre performed almost as well as the iPhone with a regular touch but quickly lost accuracy and input with a lighter touch. Motorola’s Droid fared the worst with noticeable errors regardless of the strength of input.”
Full article here.
Moto’s Robot Touchscreen Analysis:
Direct link via Vimeo here.
MacDailyNews Take: Droid. iDon’t understand WTF you’re trying to scribble.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Davewrite” for the heads up.]
Hello? Is this news?
As if i really needed someone to tell me this obvious fact.
Stellar.
Can’t show it any clearer than that.
What?!? The DOAroid worked the worst with ROBOTIC touch?!? How does that happen? It’s a robot, right?
Droid Doesn’t – track well… does it.
I’ll remember this when buying my robot its next cell phone.
No problem, only real men buy droids, and they have plenty of strength to push hard. Not like us sissy iPhoners. BTW two of my golf buddies got Droids and both had to return them because many of the buttons quit working. Had to pull the battery to shut down even. I don’t know how representative that is but it is 100% of my experience.
That’s funny, MadMac!
They’re moving up from just whining for oil cans.
C-3PO to R2-D2: This is all your fault.
I guess there a hole in that “bucket of does”…
“The BlackBerry Storm2 and Palm Pre performed almost as well as the iPhone..”
Seriously? From my viewpoint, the iPhone’s lines were completely straight, and the Storm and Pre had squiggly lines.
” . . . and the Storm and Pre had squiggly lines.”
Because they still sell the sexy apps.
This article says it all:
iPhone vs. Droid Comparison Chart
The irony of this is priceless, given their TV advertising which shows the Droid being used by a robot.
There you go. Just show this to the naysayers and iPhone bashers. The iPhone is by far the best of the entire line up and will continue to do so. iPad is going to perform just as amazingly well.
Not only is the iPhone display accurate, but it is highly responsive in a natural, dynamic way.
Domo Aregato Mr Roboto. ( forgive typo )
U think think this is bad? Try one of those iPhone Clones Sci-phone i68. I’m sure it will do worse than all of these. I have one, used it for 2-3 months and I can’t stand it anymore. I got it thinking I could type my text messages easier but it’s actually more time consuming. U have to press down hard onto the screen & input is so, so inaccurate. Seems like it uses hardware from the 90’s. For $50 new, u get what u pay for. At least I now now to steer clear of that garbage.
I’m actually going to repair the hinges on my almost 4 Y/o Moto Razr, put it the 2GB card I got for the clone and use it until iPhone is finally comes to T-Mobile.
Droid fail.
Robot strokes Android on first date.
Robot kills Android
@Lilochris
Apple is allowing the iPhone to be purchased without a contract. I understand that they can be unlocked in a few minutes. After that you may be able to get a T-mobile card and have it run on the T-mobile 2g (not 3G) system.
Droid: a big ol bucket full of does. Why anyone would want a bucket full of deer is beyond me.
Why people love Apple? Because it wrote it’s own drivers for the touchscreen instead of relying on off-the-shelf software provided by the manufacturers to make sure the user experience is solid.
News is that it may come to T-Mobile later this year or around this time next year.
I can wait. I have a 2nd Gen 16GB ipod touch which takes off the steam. Put skype on it and use it for calls & texting. I repaired my old Moto Razr with new $3 hinges + a new pare battery I had which I never used. I can hold up for another year.