When the iPhone came, yours truly was among the first to muse that a stylus would eventually come back – the device has since brought us sausages used as styli, weird aftermarket solutions and a load of other ideas regarding that “god-darn toothpick”.
Dell apparently sees value in styli, too – SlashGear reports the following:
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As for stylus input – something we puzzled over earlier – Choubey seems to hint that Dell might use new transparent conductor resistive panels over capacitive technology in future tablet models, which support multitouch finger-input and stylus control with high-resolution accuracy.
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This makes their Mini5 tablet interesting all over again…
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I was thinking about this the other day as well…
We started off with the Palm Pilot, stylus based input and no keyboard.
We moved to the Treos and Blackberrys with small but usable keyboards.
Now we’re back again to full screen tablet style devices with soft keyboard input.
How long can it be before handwriting recognition gets it’s second coming?
Hi,
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not sure – I have to admit that I like qwerty
Tam