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Originally Posted by scoff
I'm just having reservations about they will handle document annotation. I think I remember reading on Gizmodo that the screen was a capacitive touchscreen, but I'm still holding out hope for a stylus. How do you annotate something using only your finger?
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Well for one, you can use a stylus with a capacitive touch screen, it's just going to be a special stylus. Less special than a wacom stylus mind you.
But I have not read anywhere that it will be capacitive. The only thing I've read relates to it taking gestured input from the touch screen. And then the more direct claim that it will support annotation. Never have I seen anything that actually says it'll let you arbitrarily draw on the screen likea normal touch screen. What they may actually do is a "low resolution" pressure sensitive panel beneath the flexible plastic screen. Enough detail to get swipes and maybe even word selections but that's about it. If they take the standard PDF approach to annotation that's actually enough as real PDF annotations don't allow arbitrary drawings, just a few shapes and lines and notes.
Still it could easily be a sticking point if they screw this part of it up. And it's not really worth worrying too much about til January.