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Of course but I can get it finer than my finger with a stylus was my point. To practically any level of zoom in a link (from experience). This may change with the resolution of the new iphone to become harder though.
Its still too coarse for annotating PDF's on the iphone to my taste but people still do.
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Its still too coarse for annotating PDF's on the iphone to my taste but people still do.
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Originally Posted by wmarone
Yeah, which was my point. But one question I do have, do capacitive screens support pressure sensitivity?
It's not the stylus that makes resistive panels valuable, its that the granularity for detection is much, much finer than capacitive can achieve. Capacitive is highly sensitive, but can only detect relatively coarse regions of input (whereas the N900's screen is, if you need it, pixel-accurate.)
I know the N900 does, from using MyPaint.
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Originally Posted by imperiallight
I love the stylus, it definitely has it's place. Especially for those programs that weren't quite written for Maemo 5, but run because of Debian Arm or Easy Debian.
Of course but I can get it finer than my finger with a stylus was my point. To practically any level of zoom in a link (from experience). This may change with the resolution of the new iphone to become harder though.
Its still too coarse for annotating PDF's on the iphone to my taste but people still do.
The one thing that really bugged me the few times I've used an iPhone, is that your fingers are always in the way of the screen.
Meh, to each his own, I just thought it was hilarious that he was using the comparison of having a cord on a phone because I had a stylus... uhm, a cord is a useless thing that gets in the way, and was only there before any wireless technology. A stylus has it's uses, even if you don't always have to use it, it's a nice added bonus.
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Originally Posted by slaapliedje
No, they have no means of detecting pressure. They can detect multiple contact points (multitouch) and how much area is being contacted, so you could "fake" pressure sensitivity with the right tool I suppose (or with very, very careful touches.)
Yeah, which was my point. But one question I do have, do capacitive screens support pressure sensitivity?
I know the N900 does, from using MyPaint.
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Personally I'd be OK with capacitive if they could offer a Wacom-style digitizer along side it.
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Originally Posted by slaapliedje
No, capacitive screens measures change in capacitance
Yeah, which was my point. But one question I do have, do capacitive screens support pressure sensitivity?
I know the N900 does, from using MyPaint.
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Resistive screens measure applied pressure
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I love the stylus, it definitely has it's place. Especially for those programs that weren't quite written for Maemo 5, but run because of Debian Arm or Easy Debian.
I bought this 4in1 resistive stylus for £1 and it arrived last week and it has to be one of my best recent purchases.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/4-in-1-Teachin...item1c12b30459
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Originally Posted by imperiallight
Another medical student with an N900 who's not completely satisfied with the N900, what are the chances?
I love the resistive stylus as well. As a medical student there are a tonne of books I have to annotate.
In what format are your books?
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lol, PDF mainly. Let me know if you need any!
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Originally Posted by PradaBrada
So I was showing him Xournal, and he said 'why would I want that, I can use voice dictation' then I had to stop myself from saying, "yes, but you also like the sound of your own voice, so it wouldn't bother you in the least..." but I didn't... manager and all that
No, capacitive screens measures change in capacitance
Resistive screens measure applied pressure
Anyhow, while voice dialing would be nice, I don't see the point in voice dictation, though there is a voice recorder already on the N900, if I recall.
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Now whether you need such accuracy is a completly different argument (depending on what camp you are in, and what functions you actually use).