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Kangal
2011-08-10 , 08:53
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I've been long accustomed to stylus+resistive touch screen, but the down side to that has been that you need two hands. One to grip the device stationary and the other to tap accurately with pen.
iPhone and other devices overcame this problem by using capacitive touchscreens, and making everything larger, shinier, and more eye candy ...causing it to become finger-friendly.
But the trouble with that is it traded off the precision factor.
And I was scratching my head 2 years ago wondering if the best of both worlds could be achieved; and the result was the thumb-stylus.
It gives you one-handed operation with the precision of a stylus.
Has anyone here used it?
I want to know if these will be available for capacitive devices; and after some digging I found these:
The iPik from gpik:
And the
REVIEW seems to be a NEGATIVE verdict;
well it is still in "prototype phase".
And then
I found THIS;
which looks like a possible solution:
Anyone have any opinions on the matter?
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