![]() ![]() I have lost count how many times I have watched my very expensive Apple Pencil roll off a desk. It has is not completely round! I would like to talk to the design drone at Apple who thought round was the way to go. It works with both the iPad and iPhone and any other device with a capacitive screen. On my iPhone I will not be writing long hand written notes, drawing or marking up PDFs or images like I do on my iPad – I just need something to scratch the odd diagram or hand write a short note in Apple Notes or OneNote and this pen does just that. Then Sophie found the pen in the photo below. These discs were transparent so you could see the tip and screen but for me, who had worked with the fine tipped Apple Pencil, this odd design was not what I was looking for. Up until now the capacitive pens on offer through Amazon all included a plastic disc at the tip to provide the “touch” on the screen. This type of pen is really just replacing your finger so no fancy pressure or angle tricks. The iPhone requires a pen that works on a capacitive screen – there needs to be actual contact with the screen to make the line as it is the screen doing the work. The iPad/Apple Pencil uses a field effect to track position and angle of the pen relative to the screen and has an internal pressure sensor that some apps use to darken/thinken the lines you draw. I have had an Apple Pencil for a number of years that works really well with my iPad but due to tech differences it does not work with my iPhone Xs. The reason for my interest in OneNote ink on my iPhone was that during the Amazon Prime sale I bought a pen that would work with my iPhone screen – that did not include a plastic disc at the tip but came to a point. So I googled for an answer and the first paragraph of this Microsoft page seems to say there is a solution – but scroll down to the bottom of the page: xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.StarShipSofa – Hugo award winning, premier science fiction podcast.Smart Thinking Solutions – my daily cyber news blog. ![]()
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