Apple built the iPhone's touch-sensitive screen atop an OS X foundation, presaging fresh innovations to come.
But Nik reckons the pen takes away from the whole point of having a touch-sensitive screen.
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The touch-sensitive screen is visible to all students in the room, said Pauline Carey, technology co-coordinator at the school.
Apple rival Hewlett-Packard has done well with its line of TouchSmart all-in-one consumer PCs, which supplement a mouse with a touch-sensitive screen.
Given Apple's early lead in wireless networking using the Wi-Fi standard, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to see Apple creating what is essentially a touch-sensitive screen that can display the contents of any computer it is connected to.
The Chromebook Pixel, available for order on the Google Play store and shipping in April, features a 12.85-inch touch-sensitive Gorilla Glass screen.
Apple's iPhone, launched in June, is a mobile phone with a gesture-sensitive multi-touch screen.
Sensing this shift, Nintendo is gearing up for their newest installment, the Wii U due out next year, which has a touch screen motion-sensitive controller.
The Razer Edge tablet in its many forms is designed with ultra-precise accelerometers and a highly-sensitive, multi-touch screen.
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The touch screen is not as sensitive as that of an iPad, so scrolling with fingers takes some real digging.
An easy-to-use, touch-sensitive, 3.0-inch high resolution LCD screen is powered by the touch of a finger to focus on subjects and activate the shutter.
It's at this point that things get a little tricky, because the rear screen isn't entirely touch sensitive.
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It has a built-in 3.2-inch touch-sensitive liquid crystal display (LCD) screen that will let you edit and manipulate the photo image before printing.
The only time we noticed a bit of pause was when we tapped the touch-sensitive buttons lining the bottom of the 4-inch screen (these include menu, home and back, in that order).
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The screen and bezel work well with each other (at times you feel the bezel is also touch sensitive), the glass reaches just right up to the top and bottom of the Z10 with carefully left spared space for ear piecre an mic, this is occupied by two strips.
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