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Originally Posted by icallaci
It didn't work that way with the Elipsa on 4.30.18838 unless you used the stylus with a battery in it.
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Tapping on the battery on older Firmware does nothing.
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Originally Posted by icallaci
I prefer a plain, non-battery-powered stylus, and could only see the battery percentage by going back to the home page. Now I can see it while inside a book, which is much more convenient.
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There are dumb styluses that are just instead of a finger on capacitive touch. If a phone, screen, tablet or ink has a high resolution digitiser then you have no choice. It needs a battery if that's the kind of it. Traditional Wacom stylus is powered from the device, so needs no battery.
There are high resolution touch screens since the late 1980s to now that are resistive, they need a dumb pointy stick/stylus and don't work easily with a finger. Apple popularized the 20 year old capacitive touch on their first iPhone because it was cheap and only needs a finger, but it's still very poor resolution. The resistive touch was used to allow signatures, small GUI elements and annotation, even handwriting recognition because from 1998 to 2007 approximately smart phones (and to an extent PDAs) where corporate due to data cost and reason was data edit/create. The iPhone was primarily data browsing, hence the cheap sensitive finger capacitive touch.
Powering a digitizer stylus from the screen is inefficient, hence the Elipsa using a battery, which lasts probably a month or two. Wacom electronic stylus powered from the tablet/screen is a continuous power drain and intermittent to look for it even if not in use.