Touchscreen Accuracy Test: iPhone, Nexus One, Droid

Touchscreen devices are becoming the norm these days. That's why it becomes increasingly relevant to see how well the first layer of interaction works: and here's a simple test to check yout touchscreen accuracy.

You only need a basic drawing program - available for free for all platforms: iPhone, Android, Symbian, Windows Mobile, etc. - and draw some straight lines, slowly, across the screen.

Depending on your touchscreen accuracy you'll get straight or waving lines, as well as easily detect any rough sports in the corners and edges of the screen.

DIY Touchscreen Analysis from MOTO Development Group on Vimeo.

Droid Autofocus Bug Found

Imagine your Android "Droid" phone can't shoot straight, with all your photos resulting in not-that-artistic out of focus ness. Now imagine that sometimes it does that consistently, but after a few weeks it's back to normal... and again busted after some more weeks.

That's exactly what's been plaguing the Motorola Droid.

But now the real reason for that was found. It's a rounding bug that messes with the auto-focus system, and makes it work fine (or not) in a 24.5 day cycle! So... just pray you're in a "good month" if you have to take some photos before they fix it for good.

(Well, let's not forget the iPhone had a bug that caused some odd-sized panoramic photos to crash the photo browser and camera, and that was fixed only recently.)

Motorola Droid

After being a telecommunication pioneer for decades, Motorola lost its edge and quickly disappeared from the face of the earth (cellphone-wise.) Even though they've always assembled good hardware, they fell behind on the software side... and as we all know, good hardware is nothing without good software running it and showing an attractive and easy-to-use interface for people to use.

But... is Motorola ready to return to the limelight like a phoenix reborn from its ashes?
Looking at this Motorola Droid - it seems so.

It runs Android 2.0 like no other device does, thanks to its Texas Instrumens OMAP3430 processor, which is why it impresses everyone who tries it.

Looks like the "Android battle" is finally heating up... :)