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Originally Posted by MobileTechReview
Mr. Mossberg fails to note that one can do most everything without the stylus he disparages.
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I strongly disagree with his statement about the WACOM stylus being a fading technology. This may be true for tablet PCs, given for example iPad's UI.
But for eBook readers, I couldn't imagine a more user friendly UI.
On the other hand, I (partially) agree with his statement about usability without stylus. On Sony 900 or 600, you have a fully loaded separate button interface. On BeBook Neo about the same.
On iRex 800, having no stylus, in my opinion really is a painful experience.
Simple to explain: Most menus you access in a vertical structure. The flipbar only allows for horizontal movement. To me, that's counter-intuitive. You can access every single function. But it's not all to practical. Kindle, with its (flimsy and mechanically questionable as it may be) 5-way-button is way closer "to the real thing".
But is it really that important, how a stylus powered gadget does without stylus?
You could ask as well, how well a graphical PC interface would do without a monitor...