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The recent announcement that Archos will be releasing 5 very very affordable Android devices with really decent specification seem to perk up a lot of budget tech geeks interest.

The problem for many is that the cheaper 2.8 inch (USD99), 3.2 inch (USD 150) and 4.3 inch (USD 199) comes with Resistive Touchscreen rather than Capacitive Screen.

Nowadays, most good smartphones and tablets comes equipped with Capacitive rather than Resistive and they would probably cost more, explaining why for the smaller ranges, resistive is used.

Mind you, we have been using resistive for a long time on our old Windows Mobile Devices so it is very usable.

Here is a video showing the 2 resistive Archos in action:

This video show a few things:

  1. The performance in general is pretty good on this demo.
  2. However, there are times when the person couldn’t actually click the icon properly
  3. People confuse performance with touchscreen usability. However, the 2 are related to one another.
  4. Overall usability depends a lot on a decent processor (Cortex A8) and decent RAM (256MB)

  1. But take a look at how hard is it to type on this resistive screen. It is definitely not there for regular typing.
  2. You have to get a better keyboard like Swype to type better.