Resistive touchscreen

Red Palm Centro smartphone
A Palm Centro, an example of a smartphone with a resistive touchscreen.[1]
Electric blue Nintendo DS game console
The Nintendo DS, an example of a handheld game console with a resistive touchscreen.

A resistive touchscreen is a type of touch-sensitive display that works by detecting pressure applied to the screen.[2] It is composed of two flexible sheets coated with a resistive material and separated by an air gap or microdots.[3]

  1. ^ "Palm Centro - Full phone specifications". www.gsmarena.com. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
  2. ^ Zelkowitz, Marvin (2009-07-13). Advances in Computers. Academic Press. p. 63-64. ISBN 978-0-08-095113-3.
  3. ^ Walker, Geoff (August 2012). "A review of technologies for sensing contact location on the surface of a display". Journal of the Society for Information Display. 20 (8): 413–440. doi:10.1002/jsid.100. S2CID 40545665.