iPhone has the Superior Touchscreen

Monday, January 11, 2010

Moto Labs, a San Francisco based product development consulting practice, has recently released photos and videos showing the superiority of the iPhone’s touchscreen.

The tests conducted are really quite simple. Using a, as yet unnamed, drawing application, the testers simply drew a series of straight lines down the screens of the phones tested. These included the iPhone, HTC’s Droid Eres, Motorola’s Droid, and Google’s Nexus. The results were rarely straight, but quite straightforward as shown in the picture below.

Beyond the touchscreen video game realm one might question what difference this makes, and for most smart phone users the first person shooter is not the sort of battery draining use they base their purchases on BUT…the slow drawing of straight lines does visually represent the accuracy of the touchscreen and this is important when the touchscreen keyboard pops-up. An already frustrating activity given the best of these applications.

The iphone clearly has some difficulty, especially, towards the bottom of the screen, but only when using the whole of the finger pad. For most adults, this hardly matters as they are more likely to be using only a portion of their finger, namely the drier part of the cuticle.

If any real stock is too be put on the results of these tests the folks at Motorola must be kicking themselves given the Droid’s performance. Just another reason the iPhone is the best smart phone on the market, if another reason was even necessary.

Check below for a video on this test.