Well, I love the capacitive touch of my iPhone, but I sorely miss the detailed pen-based input I had with all my old resistive-touch Windows Mobile phones.
That's one gaping hole of LACK I see with capacitive touch screens. It makes ALL drawing apps suck and destroys any really graphical note-taking capability. Come to think of it, I'm getting more aggravated by the second at how much I miss drawing/note-taking with a stylus on my old Dell Axim. Damn it! Jobs! WHY!!
i wonder how hard it would be for phone makers to add Wacom technology to phones. HP's last tablet (not sure about current one) had a capacitive screen for finger touch, but used Wacom tech w/ a pen for accurate writing.
@maveric101 Oh... Oh HELL no. I've gone through two Wacoms in the past year, not only are they exceedingly fragile, they're also expensive as crap. They have a patent on the battery-less pen tech that they use, so they jack up the prices on tech that should have dropped years ago.
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Well, I love the capacitive touch of my iPhone, but I sorely miss the detailed pen-based input I had with all my old resistive-touch Windows Mobile phones.
That's one gaping hole of LACK I see with capacitive touch screens. It makes ALL drawing apps suck and destroys any really graphical note-taking capability. Come to think of it, I'm getting more aggravated by the second at how much I miss drawing/note-taking with a stylus on my old Dell Axim. Damn it! Jobs! WHY!!
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i wonder how hard it would be for phone makers to add Wacom technology to phones. HP's last tablet (not sure about current one) had a capacitive screen for finger touch, but used Wacom tech w/ a pen for accurate writing.
@maveric101 Oh... Oh HELL no. I've gone through two Wacoms in the past year, not only are they exceedingly fragile, they're also expensive as crap. They have a patent on the battery-less pen tech that they use, so they jack up the prices on tech that should have dropped years ago.
@stevox Actually, there are pens that work with the iPhone/MBP capacitive screens...for example:
http://tenonedesign.com/stylus.php
or
http://tenonedesign.com/sketch.php
It's about 15 bucks; worth it if you want to use your iPhone for a lot of note taking...