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I have a couple of Adonit (capacitative + Bluetooth) styluses, they’re fine, as far as it goes. One inconvenience is keeping track of the charger; another is that they roll off of surfaces easily, and don’t have a clip to keep them from sliding out of the pen pocket on my Scott-e vest (eventually I wrapped a flat rubber band around them to create a bit of friction). I have a Pencil by 53 (flat like Logitech Crayon) which you can charge by pulling off the ‘barrel’ and plugging the guts into USB port. And it has an eraser (if app supports that).
But the stylus situation on iOS is still too complicated: no iPhone support other than capacitative, different AP’s for different iPads, Logitech Crayon works with only latest generation iPads, capacitative styluses (like Dash) are not accurate enough for all applications, and other third party Bluetooth enabled solutions (including Adonits) only expose their advanced capabilities with a handful of apps (notably not Apple’s).
I’m hoping Logitech is first of at least a few other vendors who build on the hardware and iOS support that is finally here.
But even now, the pairing AP and LC employ is different and mutually exclusive: if AP is paired, you have to Forget the pairing before you can connect LC. LC can seamlessly change from one iPad to another once it is turned on (it is proximity based, not ‘paired’). With AP you have to pair before it can be used with another iPad. And neither one supports the gestures to reveal dock, notifications or control panel (as capacitative styluses do).
A little more info about LC: charging is convenient (any Lightning charger works) but takes about an hour as opposed to 30 minutes for AP. And needs charging more often. You need to press power to turn it on, it turns off automatically after 30 minutes, but you can turn it off explicitly. Power level does not display in Power Widget on iPad, but you can press power button to check level (green amber red I think - haven’t used it enough yet to deplete battery).
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