An independent website labs.moto.com, did its own study of touchscreens based on using a basic drawing program, a steady hand, and a few straight lines drawn very slowly
on the screen.. The video is by Moto Development Group, the guy's name is Morgan. Moto Development Group is not associated with Motorola, but they appear to be consultants to the Android industry.
A video shows what happened when they recently took several touchscreen systems from the iPhone, Droid Eris by HTC, Droid by Motorola, and Google Nexus One out for a Do It Yourself test drive.
The results show the iPhone bested the HTC Droid Eris and Nexus One (note the Eris and Nexus One look about the same because they are made by the same company), followed by the Droid by Motorola.
They contend that the iPhone won because the lines were straighter when drawing diagonal lines with finger pressure.
Note: a user of a Droid by Motorola on a forum wrote, " Dunno what app
this guy is using but I tried this on my DROID and the lines were
practically perfect, did not look anything like the wavy lines he made."
Do you ever draw diagonal lines when tapping on an Android screen? Does it really matter in 99.99% of phone functions? Probably not. No reviewer of the Nexus One, Droid Eris by HTC or Droid by Motorola ever noted a problem operating any of the phone's touchscreens. These smartphones were not developed to be drawing phone. Also many people have come accustomed to the way the iPhone worked and have adapted their fingers to work the best on an iPhone. The Droid and Eris have haptic fedback which can effect the way the finger responds to the screen. So what's the point of the test?
What does the Moto Development Group do? Well they make the the Android Media Platform (AMP) a flexible and full-featured
reference platform designed to help customers reduce time to market for
their products. AMP facilitates user experience and interface
prototyping, ANDROID application software development, and fast-ramp,
high-volume product development.
They
are not associated with Motorola, so what's the rub? They are showing
faults in present hardwarde so that maybe Motorola or HTC will hire
them to develop their touchsreens, perhaps? Did any other news source or blog question the results? No they just regurgitated what everyone wrote and report labeled it from CES. Nowadays anyone with a video camera can make up a test and the whole blogosphere repeats it. Get out your video cameras...whoopsah you do need to have several expensive phones and plans to play.
DIY Touchscreen Analysis from MOTO Development Group on Vimeo.