Touch sensitivity:
When operating a resistive touch screen, you need to provide pressure to create contact; you can use your fingers (even when wearing gloves), nails, a stylus, etc.
In order to activate the capacitive sensing technology, capacitive touch can have delicate finger contact and can be charged from the bottom of the screen. However, inanimate items like gloves, nails, etc. will have an incorrect data input. Recognition of handwriting is equally challenging.
Precision:
When using the stylus, it is possible to see the precision of the resistive touch screen, which is at least 1 display pixel. assists with tiny operation control and handwriting recognition.
It's said that capacitive touch displays use many pixels, which effectively reduces the area that a finger may make contact with. Therefore, it is challenging to properly target icons smaller than 1 cm.
Multi-touch:
A resistive touch screen cannot support multiple touches.
Software is used to implement multi-touch on capacitive touch screens. The majority of smartphones and tablets available today allow multiple touches.
Transparency rate:
Typically, resistive touch screens have worse picture quality. Another issue is the reflection of sunlight.
In this case, a capacitive touch screen is appropriate. Neither image degradation nor excessive sunlight reflection.
Cleaning:
A stylus, fingers, or fingernails can be used to interact with resistive touch displays. The issue is that using these techniques makes it simple to leave germs, oil, and fingerprints on the screen. making cleaning quite difficult.
Even if a full finger may be used to contact a capacitive touch screen, its exterior glass is easier to clean.
Surface resistance:
Layers of polyester film are used by the resistive touch screen to identify the essential properties of its coordinates. Due to this coating, the screen is extremely vulnerable to scuffs and needs periodic calibrating. However, because it has polyester layers, it is less fragile and less prone to shatter.
The glass' outer layer is used by the capacitive touch screen, giving it some degree of indestructibility. The glass can, however, be broken into pieces. Stains and scratches are less common on this touch screen.