Touch Terminology

Despite increased consumer awareness of the "touch interface" courtesy of an expanding selection of touch-enabled consumer devices, the intricacies and varieties of touch technologies is a topic not fully understood by the gesture touch community. Courtesy of the product positioning of dozens of touch technology manufacturers, the filtering of bloggers and the responses posted by the larger touch community, mixed messages exist about how certain technologies work and what the true touch capabilities are for each technology. To help create a basis for technology comparisons, below is a discussion of the various applicable touch input terms and the touch technologies that reliably recognize these input categories:
Single Touch

Single Touchoccurs when a finger or stylus creates a touch event on the surface of a touch sensor or within a touch field so it is detected by the touch controller and the application can determine the X,Y coordinates of the touch event. These technologies have been integrated into millions of devices and typically do not have the ability to detect or resolve more than a single touch point at a time as part of their standard configuration.
Single Touch with Pen Input

Single Touch with Pen input functionality can range from a simple, inactive pointer or stylus to complex, active tethered pens. Inactive pens enable the same input characteristics as a finger, but with greater pointing accuracy, while sophisticated, active pens can provide more control and uses for the touch system with drawing and palm rejection capabilities, and mouse event capabilities.
Single Touch with Gesture

Enhancements to firmware, software and hardware by many single touch technologies have increased their touch functionality. Some touch technologies can use advanced processing capabilities to "detect" or recognize that a second touch event is occurring, which is called a "gesture event." Since single touch systems can't resolve the exact location of the second touch event they rely on algorithms to interpret or anticipate the intended gesture event input. Common industry terms for this functionality are two-finger gestures, dual touch, dual control, and gesture touch.
Two Touch

Two Touch refers to a touch system that can detect and resolve two discrete, simultaneous touch events. The best demonstration of Two Touch capability is to draw two parallel lines on the screen at the same time. Two Touch systems can also support gesturing.
Multi-touch

Multi-touch refers to a touch system's ability to simultaneously detect and resolve a minimum of 3+ touch points. All 3 or more touches are detected and fully resolved resulting in a dramatically improved touch experience. Multi-touch is considered by many to become a widely-used interface mainly because of the speed, efficiency and intuitiveness of the technology.



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Jadi secara garis besar yg dimaksud multi touch adalah mengacu pada kemampuan sistem sentuhan untuk sekaligus mendeteksi dan menyelesaikan minimal 3 + poin sentuh. Semua atau lebih sentuhan dapat terdeteksi dan sepenuhnya terselesaikan serta menghasilkan pengalaman sentuhan yang dapat ditingkatkan secara dramatis. Multi-touch dianggap oleh banyak kalangan untuk menjadi antarmuka yang banyak digunakan terutama karena kecepatan, efisiensi dan intuitif teknologi.
(Sebagai ontoh...dengan kemampuan multi touch,kita dapat menperbesar atau memperkecil gambar hanya dengan menggeser 2 jari kita...(meperbesar dengan cara menggeser,mengecilkan dengan cara mencubit gambar))
Dan biasanya juga,hanya layar jenis Capasitive saja yg mampu menghadirkan teknologi Multi touch...sedangkan untuk layar jenis Resistive...BELUM bisa multi touch,karena layar Resistive masih berdasarkan point sensor tekanan...beda dengan Capasitive yg memakai aliran listrik statis dalam tubuh sebagai sensornya.(hanya yg langsung bersentuhan dengan kulit yg memiliki listrik statis tubuh...sedang kuku tidak sebagai penghantar listrik statis)

Untuk masalah unit apakah benar Multi touch dan menggunakan ram DDR2,silahkan Agan Ryanniningyang menjawabnya...(karena beliau yg punya unit sama seperti yg Agan mau pesen...tp klo unit yg saya punya sih memang ram yg dipake DDR2 dan chipnya Ramnya juga Chip ram kwalitas bagus..."Elpida" serta layar masih resistive,jd belum multi touch screen)