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Don t Like the iPhone? Checkout 3 Other Touchscreen Phones

Posted on August 31, 2008

Apple shook up the mobile phone playing field with the introduction of the original iPhone a year ago. Phones with touchscreens were nothing new; most Windows Mobile phones have used them for years. But the older phones used resistive digitizer screens, which were operated by a tiny metal stylus. The iPhone uses a capacitive digitizer that s operated by touching fingers to the screen a remarkably convenient option, by comparison. It didn t take consumers long to figure out this was the way to go with touch and other phone makers quickly followed Apple s lead.While making a handse...

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