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iPhone and iPod Touch Stylus
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Wow - people can be pretty narrow-minded about the uses for a product.
Anyhew, for me, it would allow me to consider a touch for my work environment (after the SDK is out there, and I can get a few apps that are lacking official support right now) - on the go note taking, occasionally with my hands dirty to the point where I certainly wouldn't want to touch the physical surface of the touch... In fact, I was thinking about it just this morning, how I'd love to pick one of those up (come SDK time) but I wouldn't be able to use it at work because of the need to use your fingers (capacitive type touch screen).
And for the poster on the first page wondering why this was newsworthy, that's it - most styli don't work on capacitive screens - this is the first that I've been made aware of...
Anyhew, for me, it would allow me to consider a touch for my work environment (after the SDK is out there, and I can get a few apps that are lacking official support right now) - on the go note taking, occasionally with my hands dirty to the point where I certainly wouldn't want to touch the physical surface of the touch... In fact, I was thinking about it just this morning, how I'd love to pick one of those up (come SDK time) but I wouldn't be able to use it at work because of the need to use your fingers (capacitive type touch screen).
And for the poster on the first page wondering why this was newsworthy, that's it - most styli don't work on capacitive screens - this is the first that I've been made aware of...
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interesting idea... But here in Florida, where there's no need for gloves, there's no need for a stylus
interesting idea... But here in Florida, where there's no need for gloves, there's no need for a stylus
"Bull-loney" YOURSELF....
If you need gloves on a 45º day you need to have your "Balls Card" revoked. You wouldn't last a single day where I live come February and it's -45ºF at 8am.... THEN and only then do you need gloves.
But you can also buy the mittens that the top comes off of if you don't like these. Luckily I don't live in an area where it really warrants gloves or mittens.
I can't wait to get my iphone in March!
The iPhone/Touch screen is so accurate, a stylus is completely unnecessary. This thing is pointless, pointless, pointless. - No pun intended.
I have tried using the iPhone on websites with small select points for next page. I find that by using the side of my finger near the fingernail I can get a shockingly small select area "most of the time". If this device has a hemispherical selection tip it might make making such small selections more reliable. I bet it gets at least a 5% market share, especially among the fat fingered and the clumsy among us.
Rocketman
I know that wasn't directed at me but...
I WOULDNT LAST THERE! lol
i'm happy if its down to 70º at 8am
I guess this is one of those "if you need it, buy it" product, it doesn't favor the majority but minority of people out there are after a product like this.
We are going to need two of these silly styluses to do any multitouch activity on the iPhone. In other words, one would have to know how to use chopsticks. That will just look weird.
I would assume that they did market research before investing money making this?
Also, it does not look like it would actually stay on its holder moving out of your pocket.
Also, it does not look like it would actually stay on its holder moving out of your pocket.
Well, this may make text-messaging or typing an email a bit more palatable on the iPhone.
The biggest issue most reviews and users seem to have, is that you can't type very fast on the closely-spaced touch keyboard.
Apple has done nothing to fix this, like for instance allowing landscape (more widely spaced) keyboard view in Mail.
I never figured out why we can have landscape keyboard when we browse in Safari, but not while we write an email or a text message, when we actually have to do some more extensive typing.
So, for those who text or write a lot, this stylus may solve a real problem.
The biggest issue most reviews and users seem to have, is that you can't type very fast on the closely-spaced touch keyboard.
Apple has done nothing to fix this, like for instance allowing landscape (more widely spaced) keyboard view in Mail.
I never figured out why we can have landscape keyboard when we browse in Safari, but not while we write an email or a text message, when we actually have to do some more extensive typing.
So, for those who text or write a lot, this stylus may solve a real problem.
That's must be why we don't have the iPhone in Canada.
it is under 0 celsius (32 F) for about 4 months of the year where I live. And it's above 35 C (95F) for about 2 months of the year.Apple must have decided that they shouldn't sell it to us if we can only use it half the year.
If that was true they wouldn't sell it to Northern states either.
Exactly. The only valid reason to have it IMO. Standing outside waiting for a bus/train - pull it out of the pocket without taking off gloves. Course, they need to make gloves to do this.
I think typing with a stylus would be much slower.
The iPhone is intelligent and can figure out a lot of your mistakes if you just power through and trust the system. For me, two thumb typing is a breeze. And i text/email A LOT. A stylus would seem too much like hunt-n-peck typing to me...
Practice makes perfect!
I successfully used my iPhone skiing yesterday (temp was around 11°F, and very windy) with my gloves on... I was wearing black diamond polartec fleece gloves.
