What’s the difference between Resistive and Capacitive Touch Screens?

Here's a well written article from the PC Pro website that describes the differences between Resistive and Capacitive touch screens.  Although this article focuses on the screens used in smartphones, we all know that the screen differences apply to Tablet PCs as well!












Not to complicate matters, but the Sahara Slate PC i500 is available with four "flavors" of screen inputs  

1)  Resistive Touch Screen

2) Capacitive Touch Screen

3) Dual mode Resistive / Wacom Active Digitizer (for handwriting recognition)
Automatically switches between Touch and Pen

4) Dual mode Capacitive / Wacom Active Digitizer (for handwriting recognition)
Automatically switches between Touch and Pen

http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/357325/capacitive-or-resistive-whats-the-best-type-of-touchscreen/2

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