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Edit: They say it's one AAA battery, though, so even easier to get rechargeable battery and recharger, if only its somewhat lower 1.2 V voltage is good enough. Last edited by markom; 09-22-2014 at 03:55 PM. |
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I think a fingertip-mounted mini-stylus would be a great invention. Maybe it's the way I hold them, but pencils, pens, and styluses of all types cramp my hand after only a few minutes. Hence I do all my writing with my index finger.
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But anyway who am I kidding, I am stuck with Apple. I've had Apple computers at home since 1995 or whereabouts, and now I have an iPhone and iPad. If I wanted to change I'd have to relearn and rebuy everything. I'd have to be a lot more angry at Apple than I am to do that. Plus, I doubt that a phablet would be of much use to me. I tried buying an iPad mini to carry in my handbag and leave the big iPad at home, but it was just too much bother and I got rid of it. I prefer the big iPad for most things, except reading one-handed on the train, which I can do on my iPhone. If I got a Galaxy Note I probably wouldn't do much more than that, and I'd have to do it the Android way which I'm not used to. But the S-Pen is still a great idea |
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Their large Note tablets would be great with the SPen and Noteshelf, but I prefer the iPad's 3:4 screen ratio to the more common 16:9. |
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09-26-2014, 10:55 AM | #156 |
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^ I thought I saw a similar looking one and users were complaining about the tip wearing out very quickly, but I can't find its product page at the moment.
Hmm, I may give this one a shot, after the 10/21 event, in case a new iPad with pen support will be announced. |
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I didn't know about ZoomNotes. I installed the lite version. It looks OK, but the most interesting feature is nested pages which is a paid feature. There are very few apps that tried to do this. I was very excited about it when I tried Pento (good idea never really developed IMO) and later Scrapnote (better but handwriting quality not good enough) but I ended up abandoning both apps. I wonder if I would actually use this functionality if it came in an app with good handwriting and a decent interface.
Handwriting in ZoomNotes is not bad at all. Not on the level of Noteshelf but comparable to Notes Plus or Bamboo Notes. The interface is not great to look at but tolerable. I haven't yet used it enough to judge if it's efficient. Gesture editing looks OK but maybe not as good as Notes Plus or especially Smart Notes. Another app that I will probably end up buying and not using |
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The handwriting space is going to get interesting very quickly over the next few months. I don't blame you if you want to hold out. I just bought three iOS 8 launch titles myself and am really trying not to buy the other cool stuff.
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Are there really believable rumors about an iPad with a stylus? I find it hard to believe. Is there really a market for it? The Galaxy Note phablet seems very good, but what's its market share in the Samsung product range?
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Probably next year if expected iPad 12" gets one beforehand in Q1/Q2 2015.
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Doesn't matter what Samsung's marketshare is. What matters is that the iOS stylus market is booming and they're trying to fix the problems associated with only having a capacitive screen to work with. These companies could be focusing on making nice pens that are easy on the hands and functional if they weren't having to figure out how to make a battery fit at the same time.
So many case uses for a stylus too. It wouldn't just be the drawing and handwriting guys who would be happy with it. I actually use my small Intuos as my mouse on my machine. I use it to 3D model and sculpt, work with photos, and the usual drawing stuff. Of course I can also do the OS X gestures on it too. |
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The amount of iOS handwriting apps, styli and especially the growing market for digital styli just shows that Steve was wrong: people do want to write with a stylus, rather than their fingers. He was wrong about cell phone screen sizes, and he was wrong about small USB MP3 players, and the outcome is that Apple has already given in to two of theses users' needs. It could be that they will reserve native digitizer capability for the 12 inch tablet next year, or that they will just change the Macbook Air to work with a digitizer (the recent Surface Pro vs Macbook commercials featuring Photoshop are dead-on, considering how many graphics professionals favor Mac OS over Win). I know chances are slim that the new iPad Air will have this capability, but I can't help hoping for it. And, yeah, I would never want to lug a 12 incher around with me, but if I had unlimited funds, I would get one for home use only, in addition to my regular Air. |
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