iPhone Wins Smartphone Touchscreen Shootout

[smlong]

Apple fan boy reporting flawed test as news ... go figure!

 

[ukgooey]

I have an LG Arena. Touchscreen is great but the phone sucks elephant spunk. Worst purchase I ever made. The software is awful and I can't believe I was dumb enough to buy it. So touchscreen tests are reasonably irrelevant if you are trying to work out who makes the best phone. As long as the screen works well enough that is.

In fact I'm going to replicate this test with my LG Arena using my dick. Then when T-Mobile come to swap it tomorrow morning (for another crappy won't work Arena!) they can perform tests on any 'foreign bodies' they find smeared on the screen.

 

[Swindez95]

As far as im concerned if its touchscreen I do not want it. Ive had my LG Voyager for the 2 year contract and hated every minute of it, played with an Iphone, hated it...Used a LG Dare, hated it. I can't use a full qwerty keyboard as small as what is used on cell phones without having to look at it. If I can't text with one hand and not have to look at my phone to do it, I don't want it. Give me a flip phone with T9 anyday over touchscreen/qwerty keypad. My next phone will be a cheapo flip phone because of this. All I do is text so typing without looking is a must. I talk maybe 300 minutes a month and have sent and recieved well over 10k+ texts in that same period.

 

[porksmuggler]

iPhone Wins Unscientific Smartphone Touchscreen Shootout From A Company That Is Desperate For Attention

TFTFY

 

[Guest]

Iphone is the best phone I've used to date. Enough with the negative comments already.

 

[fogartini]

[citation][nom]dheadley[/nom]I would think that the human finger is exactly what you would want to use for a test of the screens ability to acturately convey input from the human finger. /shrug[/citation]

Absolutely!!

 

[7amood]

would love to see some results for nokia's N900 and 5800expressmusic.
did some searching... ended up with nothing.

 

[doc70]

[citation][nom]celisic[/nom]Iphone is the best phone I've used to date. Enough with the negative comments already.[/citation]
Probably your experience is equal or less than that of the authors of this "study".
no offense, but try to broaden your horizons a bit.

 

[will_chellam]

The whole point of a capacitive screen is that it relies on the conductivity and bio-electrics of a living human finger to work properly - I call foul on any 'scientific' test that uses anything different unless they can demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that the actuator they used had absolutely identical electo-mechanical properties asa real, living, finger.

 

[Honis]

[citation][nom]will_chellam[/nom]The whole point of a capacitive screen is that it relies on the conductivity and bio-electrics of a living human finger to work properly - I call foul on any 'scientific' test that uses anything different unless they can demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that the actuator they used had absolutely identical electo-mechanical properties asa real, living, finger.[/citation]
They didn't use an actuator, they asked humans to draw lines with their fingers. They didn't even specify which finger (thumb or index) was used. An actuated simulated finger would need to be shown that it was a reliable replacement (ie draws straight lines on paper) and then it would be a viable test apparatus. This test is also severally limited as it uses 3 devices that are essentially the same, and judge it against 1 other device. Where are the Nokia, Palm, etc phones?!

 

[ukgooey]

^ I think he knows that. Read it again.

 

[beergoggles]

Wow. Amazing how many posts that are positive towards the iPhone results are being thumbed down to the point of invisibility (a zone I consider reserved for trolls, lies, and flame bait). The tests seem to be a whole lot more objective than the readers of these comments.

 

[aapocketz]

I find these results interesting, but I can draw much straighter lines on the Droid than this person. The iphone feels that accurate though.

since you cannot control the speed, pressure, shape, and a host of other factors with a human hand, and remove human bias, you cannot take these results as scientific. Do they even make scientific conclusions rather than general ones? They could do a curve fit least squares regression and give some sort of quality factor at least.

Did they release the app source code for each phone to do the tests?

 

[buckweed]

nice way to win, simply exclude the better phones from the test! ha! HD2???

 

[necronic]

I won't call foul on this due to the use of a human finger. I think the previous comment about as stopwatch and a race was pretty deadon there. There are also other ways to set it up as a psuedo blind or double blind by only showing the touch screen, and only having it loaded to this screen only so people couldn't tell what they were using.

Then determining specific metrics and doing a Design of Experiments build could deal with most of the issues that a human factor could introduce. Although, to be honest I would be shocked if a tech research company ever went so far as to do a DOE.

You could also do a group where you tell them what they are testing, but lie, to determine what interference that could cause. Ha! I think running that test on this group would be hilarious.