Stylus input ??

duc999 · 3 Jul 2010 at 17:56

A little advice please. Desperately need a new phone my Touch Diamond is well knackered.

I prefer to send my texts using the letter recogniser i.e. by writing with a stylus.

Mainly cos I can't text for toffee using buttons and takes me ages . Also I find touch screens far too sensitive for my big fingers.

Any advice on a suitable smartphone or do I have bite the bullet and get a touchscreen with swype and learn how to use it ?

Cheers

Bigpig · 3 Jul 2010 at 18:13

duc999 said:
A little advice please. Desperately need a new phone my Touch Diamond is well knackered.

I prefer to send my texts using the letter recogniser i.e. by writing with a stylus.

Mainly cos I can't text for toffee using buttons and takes me ages . Also I find touch screens far too sensitive for my big fingers.

Any advice on a suitable smartphone or do I have bite the bullet and get a touchscreen with swype and learn how to use it ?

Cheers

google
DAGi Smartphone Slim Line Capacitive Stylus
Might work for you just seen them 1 min ago looking for accessories for my new desire

duc999 · 3 Jul 2010 at 18:42

Cheers for that , interesting

chaparral · 3 Jul 2010 at 18:48

You can get the Official HTC stylus
http://www.htcaccessorystore.com/uk/p_htc_item.aspx?i=200225

Description
A capacitive screen stylus pen is designed specifically for HTC devices with capacitive screen.
It's perfect for enterprise apllications which require signature capture.

This stylus is compatible with teh following HTC models:
- HTC HD2
- HTC Hero
- HTC Dream
- HTC Magic
- HTC Desire
- HTC Legend
- HTC HD mini
- HTC Wildfire

But has any these mobile phones got letter recogniser ?? :confused:

(I don't know

)

Amp34 · 3 Jul 2010 at 18:57

Why does that have what looks like a hook at the end?

Either way as capacitive screens are much less accurate writing will probably be a bit of a pain.

chaparral · 3 Jul 2010 at 19:03

Amp34 said:
Why does that have what looks like a hook at the end?

for picking your nose and cleaning the wax out your ears...

"andy" · 3 Jul 2010 at 19:08

id imagine swype with a capacitive stylus would work very very well.

chaparral · 3 Jul 2010 at 19:22

There some apps for this on appbrain

http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.inkmarksoftware.mobilewrite_trial

MobileWrite is a handwriting recognition input method. This is the 4 day trial version.
Text is entered by handwriting either printed or Graffiti letters, instead of typing on the keyboard.
Using a stylus improves the speed and accuracy.
All keyboard letters and keyboard symbols are supported.

Latest version: 3.1 (for all Android versions)

DVD Cinema · 3 Jul 2010 at 19:40

Nokia 5230 comes with plectrum like stylus. Seems to work well. Just typed this on it.

The_TailGunner · 4 Jul 2010 at 02:31

i have gigantic sausage fingers and have very few problems typing on the default portrait keyboard on the htc desire. even using my mega-thumb!

i also had no issues typing on my iphone 3g.

i find the htc hero keyboard to be slightly fiddly, but still useable with my giant shovelhands

duc999 · 4 Jul 2010 at 09:45

Good to hear that , I haven't really tried any of the big screen phones as of yet but will see what works best for me , cheers for the help

GeX · 4 Jul 2010 at 14:41

chaparral said:
You can get the Official HTC stylus
http://www.htcaccessorystore.com/uk/p_htc_item.aspx?i=200225

But has any these mobile phones got letter recogniser ?? (I don't know )

We have one of these styluses at work, it didn't work at all on my Hero :confused:

Myshra · 5 Jul 2010 at 10:34

I'd recommend looking into swype (check out the demo's on youtube). It's FFF to quote a friend (fat finger friendly) and works well any android handset. That said, android is modular in the sense that if you don't like the keyboard then you can just replace it with another by downloading an app.

Cosimo · 5 Jul 2010 at 10:44

I've tried the official stylus with the Desire and its a hit and miss affair. I wouldn't bother even if you were wearing gloves.