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pezus said:

d21lewis said:

pezus said:

I couldn't care less for smudges/fingerprints on my handheld. My ipod touch is always very smudgy because I can't be bothered to wipe it all the time

It's not the smudges that bother me.  It's the fact that the back is actually another touch screen (touch pad).  I don't want to sit the console down and get scratches on the back and then find out that it's no longer accurate.  I don't know how the tech works, though.  I had a laptop that has a scratched touch pad and it still works okay.  Maybe I'm worried over nothing.

Hmm that's a good point. I certainly hope Sony designed it to be durable enough, even when scratched. It's probably a pressure based system the touch screen uses so scratches shouldn't affect that. Purely hypothetical talk though, so don't mind me!

The rear panel is capacitive not resistive. 

If you don't know the difference, resistive is what's used on older GPS devices and the Nintendo DS/DSl/3DS. Those are pressure based.

Capacitive is what's used on virtually every touch screen smartphone; it responds to anything conductive (like your finger).

Either way it would take a pretty significant impact (not little scratches) to break the panel. Odds are the device would be broken anyway if damaged in such a way.