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Stylus for Handwriting?

i actually have written 2 stylus comparisons for a medical app website.

here's a link to the second article, which compared my favorites from the first article (Griffin Stylus, Boxwave Stylus, AluPen) with some newer ones (Adonit Jot Pro, Wacom Bamboo Touch).

long story short, i loved the Adonit Jot Pro, and the rest are all very similar. I do have the iPen, but I haven't gotten around to using it (or reviewing it) yet.

also, i just got an e-mail from the adonit folks about the Adonit Jot Flip, which has the Adonit Jot Stylus on one end, and a pen on the other end. Sounds pretty nifty!
 
after reading all reviews and comparisons on google and youtube i went with Wacom Bamboo

can't wait to get it

I also have Notability based on reviews
 
I actually really want the Adonit bluetooth Touch! Wacom has good products, but I don't see how their stylus is any different from a $10 one at best buy.

Thinking about selling my iPen, it's ok but I should've bought the XO Studio Pen to begin with. Now that Procreate 1.6 will only support the Adonit Touch, I'm going with that.
 
fortuneteller33 said:
I actually really want the Adonit bluetooth Touch! Wacom has good products, but I don't see how their stylus is any different from a $10 one at best buy.

Thinking about selling my iPen, it's ok but I should've bought the XO Studio Pen to begin with. Now that Procreate 1.6 will only support the Adonit Touch, I'm going with that.
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Wacom's bamboo ipad stylus is about the same as those cheaper styli. Right now the adonit jot series is the closest thing to an active digitizer pressure sensitive capacitive stylus. It just lacks precision, pressure sensitivity, and an on-screen tracker. The jot touch adds pressure sensitivity but lacks precision.

Wacom's Intuos line can be integrated into ipads relatively easily but it's a choice not to integrate due to Apple's current stance on styli. the XO Studio and iPen are similar concepts but with different ways to execute the same functionality as Wacom's tech. The iPad really needs to have an integrated solution to be of any real use. All of these other solutions are just too complicated to really be consumer friendly.
 
I am using an Adonit Jot for handwriting and drawing conceptual maps. I used a Griffin rubber nib stylus before, and the Jot is a huge improvement especially for condensed handwriting and fine lines.

Be careful with the Jot Touch though: The first generation is not Bluetooth 4 (but 2) and only supports pressure sensitivity of the tip, but NO palm rejection. I inquired from Adonit directly, because palm rejection is a deal breaker for myself.

I wrote a post about stylus for handwriting and drawing conceptual maps, which you can find here: http://www.joachim-scholz.com/academipad/2012/07/30/stylus-academic-handwriting/

One thing I don't mention there is the iPen. It looked good at first sight, but after watching the demo video and searching around a little bit, the concept seemed to cumbersome to me (needs an adapter and there is a lag between the tip of the pen and the line in the demo videos).

So until the next gen Jot Touch with Bluetooth 4 is out, I would stick with a Jot Pro or Flip (if you like the extra analog pen).
 
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