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Why are all touch screens not the same?

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Why are all touch screens not the same?
« on: 17/08/2008 13:59:01 »
On my PDA I can use my finger of stylus to do tasks, open stuf etc. Yet on my ipod only touching the screen works, a stylus does nothing...why is that?
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    « Reply #1 on: 17/08/2008 15:40:11 »
    Have a read of:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen
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