[General Questions and Answers] Maric:
One of the reason I couldn't stand the touch pro 2 was the resistive screen. I vowed to never ever get a touch based phone after my experience with my Dell Axim X51v. The thing I guess I never understood is a PDA is suppose help someone be more productive. So when busy going in and out office meetings, appointments and driving around is that the PDA required two hands.

The thing that I loved about my Iphone and didn't really know why until I actually started following why the touch screen input worked so well when barely touching the Iphone screen. It was because it was capacitive and did not have to actually put physical pressure for the input. So typing with the onscreen keyboard is fluid, fast and responsive.

Another thing that I didn't really know why the Iphone grew on me was because it was meant to be used with one hand. I kind of chuckle when I see people typing in portrait mode with their iphone when it was designed to be used with one hand. I think I remember doing that with the phone when I first got it. So when using the phone with one hand its really productive especially for someone who is constantly moving around.

It's funny how people automatically prefer the capacitive compared to resistive and not really know it. Two of my friends have both commented how responsive my iphone was compared to their resistive phones. One of them had a Sprint I think the instinct and my other had a verizon phone touch screen with a keyboard.

As for the argument about being able to use it for precision. I can't really remember a time it was actually useful. I would try to use the stylus sometimes to take notes handwritten ones but was really hard to write legible so again not really productive from that standpoint. About the precision part there wasn't really ever a time it was needed. Being able to lightly touch the screen on a capacitive just for the mere fact that its a 'touch' phone so out of every 1000 inputs how many are going to need precision? Almost all of them it won't be needed. So being able to slightly touch it makes it more responsive and fluid from dialing, emailing, texting, music, etc. You get the picture.

As for the multitouch being a gimmick is kind of ridiculous. When it comes to surfing web sites of all shapes and sizes and trying to read the different font sizes the multitouch is quite useful in pinching the right zoom focus to make text readable. Again its useful for zooming in out sites where there are links close to it since sometimes tapping will register it as a tap for the link. Again the pinching works well to for those two options when trying to zoom in just right amount on different applications. I wouldn't say this the sole reason capacitive is better than resistive but it becomes quite vital when trying to read content meant to be read over a monitor. So being able to pinch the right amount of zoom level is quite a nice feature.

So again once you used to capacitive, resistive is an inferior for its intended use - which is mean to be a touch friendly device. Next time you are being rung up at the supermarket and inputting your telephone number for the savings reward try using it without the stylus and see how sometimes your inputs are not registered. If that were a capacitive screen it would have register all of inputs no problems.