Capacitative touch screen uses a single layer of material that conducts an electrical field across the screen. They require almost no contact as they don't register to pressure, but instead react to capacitance interference from your fingertip (hence they don't work as well, or at all, with a stylus, or while wearing gloves). However, they register multitouch if the controller supports it. They permit more visible light through the surface, and have extremely accurate X/Y positioning, but are generally more expensive to manufacture and require a somewhat more advanced controller to interpret the touch data.

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Apple didn't invent the icon or the rectangular array.

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As you can see, quite similar, yet it predates the iPhone by over a year (which would imply it was in development more than a year before the first iPhone was ever glimpsed by a fanboy). The OS, Symbian, was around even before that.

So, you see, not everything is about Apple. Prettily arrayed icons on a black background isn't Apple's baby, much as you'd like to think so. As far as phone formfactor, well, adult human hands are all pretty much the same, so any rectangular phone made in black...

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I honestly think you're simply being a fanboy troll. Not only have you done nothing but whine snarkily, you've also done nothing to serve your point, as others besides myself, have pointed out. Get over your iPhone fetish, already. There is no denying that the iPhone formfactor is stylish (at least to many), but claiming that Apple originated the look of icons laid out in a grid style is ludicrous and simply entrenches the already well-established idiocy of the Apple fanboy base.

And for the record, embe dyour images with standard HTML tags, but don't close the tag with the trailing

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