Apple iPad & Samsung Galaxy Note – The Great Stylus Debate
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Re: Apple iPad & Samsung Galaxy Note – The Great Stylus Debate
#2Tablets and phones currently have very good passive touchscreens. The problem with using syluses (stylii?) is these touchscreens really weren't designed for them. Adding an active touchscreen would probably remediate these issues, but maybe that would make phones too big, and reduce battery life.
Active styluses pick up and refocus radiation from the screen, powered in a similar way to RFID chips. Maybe instead of providing input through the touchscreen, the stylus could have a tiny digital camera on its tip, detecting which pixel the stylus is on, and sending that info to the phone through Bluetooth or another means?
Perhaps the algorithms that handle touchscreen input are not properly calibrated to styluses, and an app or driver could make them operate more accurately?
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The best stylus experience I've used has been a Wacom dual active/passive screen on an HP tablet/laptop convertible. I had a nearly identical laptop with a passive-only touchscreen, adding the active touchscreen made all of the difference. On Windows 7 in Word, taking notes in economics and college math courses worked pretty well - I could type and take notes, then draw equations and graphs directly with the ink and review tools in Word. The use case was so valuable to me that I'm surprised nobody else did this, and other Office suites don't seem to offer anything even remotely similar.
Re: Apple iPad & Samsung Galaxy Note – The Great Stylus Debate
#3Tablets and phones currently have very good passive touchscreens. The problem with using syluses (stylii?) is these touchscreens really weren't designed for them. Adding an active touchscreen would probably remediate these issues, but maybe that would make phones too big, and reduce battery life. Active styluses pick up and refocus radiation from the screen, powered in a similar way to RFID chips. Maybe instead of pr…
Styli present a smaller "meat pad" area to the projected capacitive screen so either the controller or the host driver need to be adjusted for that. Apple may have also written their drivers to reject touches that small to avoid accidental extra fingers or hovers from being detected.
If Samsung's pixelsense technology (CCD built into the LCD) takes off, then you could just have the stylus be a passive IR emitter and the thing would work with a point of any size.
Re: Apple iPad & Samsung Galaxy Note – The Great Stylus Debate
#4Tablets and phones currently have very good passive touchscreens. The problem with using syluses (stylii?) is these touchscreens really weren't designed for them. Adding an active touchscreen would probably remediate these issues, but maybe that would make phones too big, and reduce battery life. Active styluses pick up and refocus radiation from the screen, powered in a similar way to RFID chips. Maybe instead of pr…
The Galaxy Note stylus uses Wacom technology. I don't know if it qualifies as "active" but if you say that it makes the phones bigger and requires bigger batteries then that fits what I know about the Note.
edit: here's a video with someone using the pen from an HP/Wacom "pen-abled" touchsmart tm2 convertable tablet computer with the Galaxy Note:
Even the pencil tip eraser works.
Re: Apple iPad & Samsung Galaxy Note – The Great Stylus Debate
#5Tablets and phones currently have very good passive touchscreens. The problem with using syluses (stylii?) is these touchscreens really weren't designed for them. Adding an active touchscreen would probably remediate these issues, but maybe that would make phones too big, and reduce battery life. Active styluses pick up and refocus radiation from the screen, powered in a similar way to RFID chips. Maybe instead of pr…
The Galaxy Note stylus uses Wacom technology. I don't know if it qualifies as "active" but if you say that it makes the phones bigger and requires bigger batteries then that fits what I know about the Note. edit: here's a video with someone using the pen from an HP/Wacom "pen-abled" touchsmart tm2 convertable tablet computer with the Galaxy Note: http://youtu.be/IKeb3j2K4WM Even the pencil tip eraser works.
Yes, that is the money!
The stylus looks exactly like the stylus from the HP tx2500 I owned. I don't actually know how large Wacom's technology is nor how much power it draws - I assumed phone manufacturers weren't including the best touchscreen technology for a good reason.
Re: Apple iPad & Samsung Galaxy Note – The Great Stylus Debate
#6There is a debate? I thought it was generally accepted that styluses are icky.
Re: Apple iPad & Samsung Galaxy Note – The Great Stylus Debate
#7compassative?
Re: Apple iPad & Samsung Galaxy Note – The Great Stylus Debate
#8There is a debate? I thought it was generally accepted that styluses are icky.
Requiring a stylus for everything is certainly sub-par, but there are certainly cases where the precision of a stylus is nice.
Re: Apple iPad & Samsung Galaxy Note – The Great Stylus Debate
#9Most people need a very strong incentive to use a new input method. I'm amazed at how few people bother to use the very useful and intuitive voice commands on every smartphone.
Re: Apple iPad & Samsung Galaxy Note – The Great Stylus Debate
#10There is a debate? I thought it was generally accepted that styluses are icky.
I don't even know what icky means but having Steve Jobs disliking styluses is not a reason to dismiss 5000 years off writing experience. For me the Galaxy Note is on the good tracks: allowing both.