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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
You absolutely need a pen for a tablet as a useful school device IMO. So far pen support in Android is pretty weak though, isn't it?
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I think this is very true for fields that require unique characters to be recorded, like science, math, engineering. Probably not so much for English, Psyc, Phil. etc... But having a pen does certainly help.
Yes it is pretty weak. It's kind of interesting to see the tablet/mobile space de-evolve. Prior to the iPad/iPhone/BlackBerry most mobile devices had pen support.
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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
Isn't that an app-related thing, and not an OS-related thing?
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I'm thinking that's what GM means. The pen support was part of the OS in MS WinCE and every app had access to the pen API. HTC Flyer has tried to emulate this by providing an API to their pen device. But even then it's still not as robust as WinCE.