Is there a way to adjust the sensitivity of the keypad on an iPhone touch screen?

The keypad is so senstivoty its extremely difficult for me to use.  If even a tiny part of my finger brushes a key, its 'typed'. Yet if I try to use a stylus or something smaller so I don't acciently touch a key, there is no response at all.  Right now I feel like I have giant clumsby fingers because its no difficult to hit the right key.  I also have long finger nails but the keys don't respond to a touch from them..it seems to have to be skin contact for them to work so i have to turn my thumb to the side to touch a key.  Since I can't feel the key or see it due to the small size of it, I am pretty much guessing if I have the right one.  The problem is too, my right hand has a shake in it so it makes it even more difficult to not hit the wrong key...especially when they are so close together.  I have heard of others having similar problems...too sentivite and too hard to text on they had to take their phones in and get one with a regular push down keyboard.   Even when on the internet its so super sensitivity I end up accidently hitting something while trying to scroll, causing it to take me to a different page.  Its very frustrating.  Yet when pushing incons on the phones main menu I have to push them over and over and over again, hard to get any response. This is a brand new phone too.  Just got it earilier this week. 
(and yes people have told me to cut my nails but I really don't think that will help anyway...besides I shouldn't have too just to get a phone to work).
Thanks for your help!

There are pressure sensitive screens (which do respond to pointed sticks. ;-). ) and capacitive screens, which respond to the electrical capacitance created by the presence of a finger tip.  The iPhone is the latter. The only way the screen can respond to the pressure of you fingertip is by detecting the increased area of contact caused by your increased pressure. This is demonstrated in sone musical instrument apps. If the screen itself was to be pressure-sensitive, a sheet of rigid glass would not have been Apple's choice.  :-)

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