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	Capt'n Corrupt	2010-01-12 , 20:45
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Originally Posted by johnkzin

If you REALLY want a pen based input, then I think the eDGe is going to be more what you want. It has 2 screens: an e-ink with Wacom Penabled input (pen only) screen, and an LCD touch screen. You can write and take notes on the e-ink screen using an included pen ... or you can do touch input on the LCD. And since the e-ink screen is "Wacom Penabled", it probably does exactly the kind of input you want -- pen input while ignoring your fingers/palm if they also happen to be resting on the screen.

I'm willing to bet (but have no direct knowledge) that the Notion Ink Adam wont be able to do "pen input while it ignores your palm resting on the screen". Maybe, but I wouldn't hold my breath. You could always go to their web page and/or blog and ask, though :-)

Thanks John,

I like inking, but I'm not sure I like it enough to forgo the form-factor and functionality of the Adam (Slate design, thin/light, small bezel, Tegra2, Pixel Qi, ultra-long battery life). Since this is likely going to be a semi-casual tool, I'd easily give up inking for the user-experience that the Adam provides.

I suppose my quest for pen-input is a wish, but a wish that must be implemented properly to be considered a factor in my purchase. The eDGe, while nice, only has pen input on the e-ink display, and then forgoes many of the qualities that I love about the Adam.

But I'll keep an open mind and try both of them out (or pour over reviews -- which is far more likely up here in the frozen north).

As for the 'palm recognition' (

) software, it seems that Ten One design is fairly competitive with its capacitive-pen line, and it wouldn't take much to see that this type of a tool on an barrage of coming android tablets could be lucrative. Perhaps a special app will be designed to take advantage of this. Perhaps this will come in the Adam 2. I will continue to hope, but for fear of an early end, will not hold my breath!

What do you find most compelling about the eDGe? How do you envision using it, and why does the Adam only slightly (if I interpret your first post correctly) out-pace it?

}:^)~

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