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Adonit Announces New Pen-Like Jot Dash Stylus

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Adonit, known for its range of styluses, today announced the Jot Dash, the company's latest stylus that aims to closely replicate a standard pen. The Jot Dash is a thin-tipped active stylus that has a plastic 1.9mm tip that offers more precision than a standard rubber-tipped stylus.

Priced at $49.99, the Jot Dash bridges the gap between Adonit's inexpensive Jot Pro and Jot Mini and the pricier Bluetooth-connected Jot Touch and Jot Script. Like the Jot Touch and the Jot Script, it has a small battery-powered tip, but it lacks the Bluetooth connectivity that enables features like palm rejection and pressure sensitivity.

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Like any active tip stylus, the Jot Dash works with all capacitive touch screen devices, including all of Apple's iPhones and iPads. Notably, it works with the iPad Air 2, which includes a different screen technology than other older iPads.

Adonit's goal with the Jot Dash was to imitate a standard ink pen, so the Dash is just 8.5mm in diameter (about the thickness of a BIC pen) with a lightweight, rechargeable battery and a clip. According to Adonit, the Jot Dash is its most intuitive stylus to date, because it "looks like a pen, feels like a pen, and acts like a pen."

A quick click on the back of the Jot Dash turns it on, and once activated, it's usable within any drawing or note taking app. The battery lasts for 14 hours, so depending on usage it will only need charging every couple of weeks, and charging is done with a magnetic USB dongle.


The Jot Dash is available in black or silver from Adonit's website and it is priced at $49.99.

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I'm starting to like the stylus options for the iPad now. It took 6 years to get rid of those chubby awkward pens that were iPad user's only options but I think the wait was worth it. These may be something that my paper and pen loving wife may actually find useful.

p.s. I need these video to have less crappier music.
 
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This one may become my first active stylus!
Or maybe I'll wait for an updated version with touch sensitivity.
Or just wait for the iPad Pro hoping for Apple to create a stylus with all the features we expect and need.
Decisions, decisions...

I could never get used to the fat-tipped styli commonly available, and wasn't going to pay $100 for a failed attempt.
I'll wait for some reviews and then decide.
 
alexrest said:
Sorry... am I missing something? Why does it need a battery if it doesn't have Bluetooth?
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I have the same question.

I think it may have something to do with the tip needing to conduct electricity? Like... maybe it selectively changes the conductivity in response to certain motions or something?
 
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alexrest said:
Sorry... am I missing something? Why does it need a battery if it doesn't have Bluetooth?
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It's an Active pen, meaning the tip generates an electric field that simulates the thickness and conductivity of a human finger.
Without the characteristics mentioned above, a thin stylus like this one wouldn't work on an iPad and iPhone.
 
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Dilster3k said:
Styluses on ordinary iPad's is straight up stupid. Just stop.
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I have to agree. I really want a good stylus support on iPad for note taking but none of the existing crop of styluses are any good (I tried a bunch) because they are hamstrung by the hardware limitations of the iPad itself. Until that changes (and it hopefully will in the rumoured iPad pro) iPad styluses are really not worth the trouble. I wouldn't waste money or any of them including this one.
 
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The latency between pen action and actual drawing on the iPad/iPhone was awful in that video.

I've used everything from the old fat tipped stylus to the Pencil by 53 and the Jot Script. The experience with all of them is lacking compared to what you get using the S-Pen on Samsung's Note products or the Surface Pro 3 and until Apple incorporates an active digitizer into their devices, I'll pass. I'm keeping eye on the iPad Pro but not getting my hopes up.
 
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Jot Touch PixelPoint was awful piece of junk: not precise (huge offset), with wavy lines and no iPad Air 2 support.
Pixel Point 2015 edition seems to be a silent update from prev. generation, - but I don't know, if it is any better. Customers like us, who were early adopters for the first PixelPoint were left out in the rain.

So why the heck should I trust such fancy Adonit ads again?

P.S. Their best stylus is still Jot Touch 4.0, in my opinion.
 
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I bought Adobe's Ink stylus for $200 when it came out. It's manufactured by Adonit. They're a bunch of clowns that don't even stand behind their own product. Expect lots of wavy lines, random disconnects, etc with any of their products. I was promised software updates to fix things over time, and conveniently during that time my return window came and went. I'll believe it when I see a third party stylus working well with an iPad. Until then I'm holding out for Apple's solution. If it requires a new iPad or iPad Pro then I'm probably going to hold off for a year. Buying a new Apple Watch, iPhone and iPad in the same year is a bit too much for me—not to mention the possibility of getting a Skylake 5K iMac and Apple TV 4. RIP my wallet.
 
Style wise this is much more like it but as others say current sylus for for iPhone and iPad are not accurate enough.
 
Pretty cool that they keep trying to make a good stylus for the iPad. But these things never work right not even the expensive ones. It really sucks but the reality is that the iPads are not built for it. Now if they added a Wacom digitizer to the iPad i would be ecstatic, but right now a stylus is just a silly novelty.
 
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Jot Touch PixelPoint was awful piece of junk: not precise (huge offset), with wavy lines and no iPad Air 2 support.
Pixel Point 2015 edition seems to be a silent update from prev. generation, - but I don't know, if it is any better. Customers like us, who were early adopters for the first PixelPoint were left out in the rain.

So why the heck should I trust such fancy Adonit ads again?

P.S. Their best stylus is still Jot Touch 4.0, in my opinion.
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Early adopter of the pixelpoint and feel the same way. They should have some trade in program if this offers a better experience.
 
I've tried most stylus products from very cheap to the more expensive options. At present I own and use the Pencil by 53, I find it to be an adequate performer on an iPad Air 2 over others. The down side to all stylus's is your writing/drawing on glass and that's not cool.... A technology that simulates writing on paper is the only thing that will make this space exciting. Not excited with the new offering.
 
uzdarumorsluke said:
I've tried most stylus products from very cheap to the more expensive options. At present I own and use the Pencil by 53, I find it to be an adequate performer on an iPad Air 2 over others. The down side to all stylus's is your writing/drawing on glass and that's not cool.... A technology that simulates writing on paper is the only thing that will make this space exciting. Not excited with the new offering.
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This is the exact reason I installed a matte film on my ipad. The downside is that it chewed up the "plastic" on my pixelpoint tip.
 
tbayrgs said:
The latency between pen action and actual drawing on the iPad/iPhone was awful in that video.

I've used everything from the old fat tipped stylus to the Pencil by 53 and the Jot Script. The experience with all of them is lacking compared to what you get using the S-Pen on Samsung's Note products or the Surface Pro 3 and until Apple incorporates an active digitizer into their devices, I'll pass. I'm keeping eye on the iPad Pro but not getting my hopes up.
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The latency would be on the App side not on this stylus, as it behaves like any other cheap stylus from the device's point of view.
 
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