Talk:Touchscreen

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i was looking through this article and noticed some unusual formatting in the history section, which appears to have been intended as a named list.

how exactly would i go about fixing this unusual formatting while going with the original intent of the editor? 216.100.95.82 (talk) 18:36, 2 February 2024 (UTC)Reply

Be bold and go ahead to fix them than having someone to do it. 2001:EE0:4BC2:15B0:49A4:5AB0:3C6E:D99E (talk) 11:57, 11 March 2024 (UTC)Reply

I noticed this as well and also unsure how to fix this. I think the only two options are either splitting the "bullet points" into a group of headers, or just getting rid of them entirely and trying to just make it flow together as one big historical group of paragraphs. I might try my hand at it later when I'm out of my work meetings Myforce2001 (talk) 13:55, 3 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

Reformatted, the text was probably copy-pasted from a photo gallery because of some of the headers that just say "capacitive" and "resistive" Mathguy81 (talk) 01:11, 2 September 2025 (UTC)Reply

There's no mention of British engineer Eric Arthur Johnson. There's enough photos, books and patents to confirm his involvement in helping touchscreen technology. Do not mistake his identity with other Eric Arthur Johnson in Wikipedia or business.

Photos i found: http://www.computer-timeline.com/timeline/eric-arthur-johnson-touch-screen/

Patents: https://patents.google.com/patent/US3482241A/en

Book (originally physical): https://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/el_19650200 184.88.43.21 (talk) 14:28, 22 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Actually, mr. Johnson is mention in the history section. The Banner talk 16:56, 22 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

Hi, I was searching my old phone. Which had a touchscreen far before iPhone was launched. And it was prior to the smartphone named on this page. Info on the phone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_P800 So I think this one was the first. But I am not sure, so I do not feel comfortable, changing the wiki-page. Greetz, flexJoly Flexjoly (talk) 18:48, 24 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

It's mentioned that LG Prada was the first with capacitive screen, P800 had resistive TFT instead, back in the day I had P900 (which is basically P800 refresh with nicer body and better specs) and it was really hard to properly navigate it without the stylus, but it was well ahead of it's time and even ran Doom!

You could say they were more of Mobile/PDA hybrids, just like Ericsson R380s, which was even earlier! ~2026-23396-65 (talk) 11:33, 15 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Here we've also got

• Laser grid touchscreens - this seems to correlate to "Infrared grid" from the article; maybe rename it to Infrared grid / Laser grid
• Inductive touchscreens

Setenzatsu.2 (talk) 21:17, 4 May 2026 (UTC)Reply