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Originally Posted by toronado
Are you sure the Hanvon is capacitive touch and not resistive? Engadget is reporting resistive. |
yes Im sure. Thats bad reporting by them . Its Capacitive plus Magnetic Resonance Digitizer. You do NOT HAVE to use the stylus for navigation( even if it were resistive this would not be true ) I was using finger input mostly and a combination of finger and buttons for some things( it was just easier) .
Its one finger only not multi touch so swipes dont work to turn a page you tap. light taps work which prove the capacitive touch. When you pull the pen to write/use the capacitive is turned off so you dont accidentally select something while writing.
When writing you could select from a few different thicknesses and even a "brush" which made a tapered stroke that looked very much like ink brush strokes.
I am interested in carrying something like it. Talking with them I got the impression Id have to be the distributor and Im not funded enough for that kind of quantity. Besides which I have not only the PocketBook 903 to come in Aprilish but also the Onyx Boox M90 in a few months. I personally like the Boox device very much. I threatened to take their display model with me from the booth at CES.
Price is a restriction really in this size range. Anything over $400 I think is a non starter. The DX is sitting at $379 and you have to sit close to that with better specs (aside from "pearl" and "whispernet") in order to sell.
Color MIGHT allow a higher price for a certain customer group. I think there are many professional/academic/scientific readers who need color for charts etc would pay a little more if they didnt want an LCD for variosu reasons