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What?! Really? Taiwanese component suppliers are feeding us with some Nokia news that we really want to hear. They are claiming that Nokia is planning to replace 5800XM’s resistive touchscreen display with a capacitive one. Why? But of course, to compete with the touchscreen offerings from Apple, LG, Samsung and others.

The suppliers point out that Nokia’s initial order of capacitive touchscreen panels can produce two million 5800 handsets and has a release timeframe between May to June. They also emphasize that capacitive touchscreen will also be integrated in future touch phones too (Isn’t that obvious?).

For technology challenged people out there, here’s a simple explanation regarding both the touchscreen technologies.

Resistive touchscreen is used in most of the touchscreen phones. It works by applying a bit of pressure on the screen, with a finger, stylus or anything else. On the other hand, Capacitive touchscreen panels are advanced than resistive ones and executes a touch command only when touched with a finger. A stylus or any other object applying pressure won’t work. It also supports multi-touch.

[digitimes via Dailymobile]