Multitouch screens on smartphones and tablets are all the rage these days. But Microsoft is looking at bringing multitouch functionality to another tool: a digital pen. The company has applied for a patent on a multitouch ePen that changes its function depending on how you hold it. You’d still be able to use the pen […]
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Samsung preparing a notebook with a digital pen?
Microsoft has designed large parts of Windows 8 to work on touchscreens including tablets, all-in-one desktops, and even traditional laptop computers with touchscreen displays. And Intel is also convinced that touchscreens can improve the laptop computing experience. But while most touch-friendly devices these days are designed for finger input, Samsung has been taking a different approach […]
Rebirth of the stylus: Samsung to launch a 10 inch tablet with pen input?
It’s not easy to make an Android smartphone or tablet stand out these days, what with virtually every consumer electronics company already offering Android devices of all shapes and sizes. But the Samsung Galaxy Note does manage to stand out thanks to its unusual 5.3 inch screen size and its digital pen for writing or drawing […]
Samsung Series 7 Slate PC review
Samsung has released at least half a dozen Android tablets in the last year or so, but the Series 7 Slate is something different. It’s full-fledged Windows computer with a high resolution 11.6 inch display, a powerful Intel Core i5 processor, and support for finger or digital pen input. It’s likely that more tablet computers […]
Google Android 4.0 adds support for stylus input
Over the past few months we’ve seen a couple of companies try to distinguish their Android tablets from the crowd by offering a stylus for writing and drawing. The HTC Flyer, Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet, and upcoming Asus Eee Pad MeMo (if it ever actually comes to market) all feature a stylus. But the manufacturers have […]
HTC Flyer & Digital Pen now available in one happy $500 package
The HTC Flyer is a 7 inch Android tablet that offers a few things most of its competitors lack. First, it runs Android 2.3 instead of Android 3.x Honeycomb, but it comes with HTC Sense software featuring custom home screen widgets and apps. Second, unlike most Android tablets, the HTC Flyer has an active digitizer […]
HTC Flyer tablet review
If you stuck me on a desert island and handed me a stack of paper and an unlimited supply of pens and pencils, I would probably attempt to fashion a typewriter out of rocks, sticks, and mud. My handwriting is bad enough that I’ve often been told that I should have been a doctor. I […]
HTC Flyer tablet unboxing and first look
The HTC Flyer goes on sale at Best Buy this weekend for $499.99, and the folks at HTC were kind enough to loan me a demo unit to test out in advance of the US launch. The Flyer is one of the most intriguing Android tablets to hit the market in recent months for a […]
HTC Flyer tablet now available in Europe
The HTC Flyer tablet went on sale today in a number of European countries including the UK, France, Germany, Italy. It’s not the cheapest Android tablet around, with a starting price of 499 Euros (or about $710 US), but the HTC Flyer does have a few things setting it apart from the crowd. First, the […]
HTC Flyer stylus may cost $80
One of the things that sets the HTC Flyer apart from virtually every other Android tablet on the market is the support for a stylus for precise, pressure-sensitive input. This makes it possible to draw pictures, take handwritten notes, or perform other tasks that are hard to do with a fingertip. But it looks like […]