Reasons for the Increasing Popularity of Capacitive Interfaces

Capacitive touch screens are responsive to the conductive materials while resistive touchscreens are pressure sensitive. Currently, analog resistive touchscreens are more dominant in the rugged handheld industry, while capacitive touchscreens are more in-demand among consumer devices, like mobile phones.

Capacitive touch offers easy and flexible usage

As more and more high-tech gadgets and electronic products invade our life, there is a higher need for easy and flexible usage. Capacitive touch offers these attributes when used in mobile phones, music devices, home electronics, medical equipment, vehicles, industrial equipment and other types of products. In fact, these touch controls can be used in dust and moisture proof casings making it highly suitable for use in medical equipment. There are other systems for which graphics are not needed. For such requirements, the best option is the use a character LCD. It is suitable for such as medical and industrial test equipment, servers, etc.

Capacitive touch displays are a great alternative to the conventional buttons

Also, this technology is a great alternative to the conventional buttons and switches. It provides a longer life and better user interface. As compared to the resistive touch technology, capacitive touch-screens are also known to be more responsive and durable. This technology can easily be integrated into custom monitors.

There are several other advantages offered by capacitive touch

  1. This is the best technology that can be used for virtual buttons. This allows for a smarter and easier interface. While ‘real’ buttons deteriorate faster, this is not the case with virtual buttons. Such virtual buttons can be most commonly seen in mobile phones, music players, and billing systems.
  2. Capacitive touch-screens respond to the human touch as the human body is a conductor of electricity. Thus, such screens can be cleaned using a cloth without the fear of an accidental command being given.
  3. Such screens offer excellent clarity as they are coated with a layer of transparent conductor such as indium tin oxide. This makes the screen conduct electricity while retaining a high clarity.
  4. Such touch screens can also be used in conjunction with a custom LCD module. They offer significant advantages such as scratch resistance. This leads to a longer life and better endurance.
  5. Also, this technology enables the use of multiple-point touch. For instance, if the user needs to zoom into a picture or increase the font size of a document using two fingers, this can be achieved with a capacitive touch-screen.
  6. Over all, this technology offers cost-effectiveness, value for money, longevity, smart interface and ease of use. All these attributes make it increasingly attractive. Just like character LCD systems, capacitive touch-screens can also be custom made to achieve resistance to dust and moisture.

So whether it is slide controls, virtual buttons or any other high-tech interface, it is possible to make use of capacitive touch in almost all types of requirements. It needs to be mentioned here that such services should only be availed from a reputable capacitive touch manufacturer and supplier.

Capacitive touch screens pros

  1. Gives clearer image than resistive touchscreen
  2. Are highly touch sensitive and doesn’t need a stylus
  3. Can support multi-touch gestures like flick, pinch, and swipe
  4. Durable Screen and high scratch resistance
  5. Visibility good even in sunlight
  6. Not prone to dust particles
  7. Capacitive Touch Screens are highly responsive and sensitive, and even a light touch can register an input

Capacitive touch screens pros cons

  1. Might not be able to work with non-conductors of electricity like gloved fingers
  2. Need to have at least 5% humidity to achieve capacitive effect
  3. Expensive than resistive touch screens
  4. Not suitable for projectors because you cannot use hand everywhere

Resistive touch screens pros

  1. Easy to use as it can be operated with any object in hand like stylus, pen, nail, etc
  2. Less Expensive
  3. Resistive touchscreens are durable than capacitive
  4. Can work at any level of humidity
  5. More accurate and versatile than capacitive touch screen
  6. Very useful for people using handwriting recognition system
  7. Make the image relatively bulky and dim
  8. Old technology and hence more reliable!

Resistive touch screens cons:

  1. Screen, being sensitive to the upper layer, can be more vulnerable to scratches
  2. As resistive touch screens can operate with almost any sort of pointing devices, it can be more vulnerable with dust particles
  3. Multi-touch supports not available.
  4. Poor visibility in sunlight readable situations

Which is better: Resistive Touch Screen or Analog Touch Screen?

It’s difficult to say whether analog resistive touch screens or capacitive touchscreens are better. Capacitive touch screens highly touch sensitive and don’t need a stylus while capacitive touch screens can be best used with a finger, gloved hand or stylus. If you want clarity and responsiveness, then you should go for capacitive touch screens. But, if you need durability, usability, and versatility, then resistive touch screen is the good option to consider.

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