[Request] [Jolla Tablet] Wacom digitizer (active-pen) support [answered]

answered 2014-11-20 01:19:37 +0200

crystaldragon141
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I love this idea but I would humbly suggest that the digitizer be a N-Trig instead of Wacom. There are various benefits to N-Trig for a tablet.

1. Uses less power
2. touch and digitizer are combined in one unit (N-Trig Duosense)
3. N-Trig digitizer is MUCH thinner and thus does not suffer from parallax, also allows for closer mounting of the screen which always looks better
4. N-Trig does not require calibration
5. I believe the N-Trig is cheaper (possibly because it also integrates the multi-touch into one unit)
6. N-Trig does not have any issues with stylus drift

Now don't get me wrong I'm not anyone's fanboy especially not N-Trigs.

However many new devices have chosen the N-Trig.

Microsoft Surface Pro 3

Acer R7-572 (second generation, I own this and love it)

I believe the Galaxy Note's use Wacom.

I will attest to the awesomeness of taking notes with a stylus. I use my Acer R7 all the time and there is no replacement for being able to literally write on the screen with an active stylus.

answered 2014-11-19 19:01:45 +0200

acrylschaf
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Indeed, an active stylus would lift the Jolla tablet from a decent entertainer to a true life companion. As a student I do use this feature on my convertible PC every day, but would prefer a small&light device like the Jolla tablet. There are even some tablet PCs in the price range of the Jolla tablet like the Tegra Note (~150EUR) or the VivoTab Note (~199EUR) that offer an active stylus.

I know this feature would need a lot of customization on the software side – anyway, it would be fantastic not to limit the hardware on the current state of Sailfish OS. For me the Jolla tablet seems like the first truly open tablet PC which can be used with any operating system I like. I’d love to see the Jolla tablet breaking the boundaries of current open-source computing – up to now active styli have been limited to proprietary systems.

My suggestion: Make the Jolla tablet digitizer-ready and offer the stylus as accessory later on. I guess that would increase the number of pre-orders even more…

answered 2014-11-19 16:38:39 +0200

ZeeLobby
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This would be amazing. If smoothly implemented this could be the number 1 note taking tablet in the world. It would also help differentiate Jolla OS from other OSes that have implemented it somewhat poorly. Having it baked into the OS would be awesome!

answered 2014-12-03 23:12:55 +0200

tjh
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I wouldn't mind paying 400 (hopefully less though..) for an actually useful device instead of 200 for a YouTube-toy. After getting used to the pixel-accurate stylus of N900 I feel like hands tied behind me when using capacitive screens, wouldn't consider a tablet without a stylus. Or thought so, until the Jolla Tablet was announced and I couldn't help myself.. Still VERY much hope that there will be a stylus; as much as I want to support Jolla, I'd hate to have another dust collector.

The Jolla Tablet will be the one to be able to run desktop apps like LibreOffice, GIMP, whatever, but those would be close to useless without an accurate stylus. And I like to desing/develop/plan stuff by drawing all the time, so a tablet I'd be carrying with me will have to have a stylus. And my children, like all children apparently, like to draw, and cannot draw too accurately without a stylus.

answered 2014-11-22 07:40:10 +0200

Nantunest
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Add wacom digitalizer, even optional and I would get one by the price of two!!

answered 2014-11-20 10:48:06 +0200

standart
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Anykind of active digitalizer would be great.

maybe the INTUOS® CREATIVE STYLUS 2 is an possible alternative?

answered 2014-11-21 12:27:22 +0200

I'mSailing
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I think the price wouldn't be the issue with it. Atleast i wouldn't mind paying more for it. If you ever used an active digitizer you don't want to move back.

answered 2014-11-24 09:04:29 +0200

Mrks
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I have already paid for the early sailor edition of Jolla tablet as well and I would be more than happy to pay some extra for the stylus (although wouldn't mind it being included to the package ;)). I had hoped that I would be able to use the tablet for my studies and the added stylus would only make it even better candidate to replace my 17,5" laptop that has a batterylife of one hour.

answered 2014-11-24 23:00:24 +0200

Ch4se
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Active pen support would be wonderful.

answered 2014-12-15 03:15:17 +0200

sidv
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Maybe mimicking what iOS does is a reasonable compromise. It seems that there is a load of high-quality "semi-active" styluses out there (Wacom, Precision Touch, ...) where the positioning seems to be done via "passive" features (i.e., just using the tip as a tip) and the pressure sensitivity and other more advanced features (like handball recognition) is done via Bluetooth 4. Now I haven't yet been able to establish if there is some special iOS API for Bluetooth being exploited or not. Given that these companies all advertise that no typical Bluetooth pairing is necessary with iOS, I strongly suspect there is some special stuff going on. However, it seems to be a worthwhile compromise as it "only" requires software (well, and Bluetooth).

Therefore, I would like to propose that maybe Jolla could get into contact with a stylus maker (the amount of up-votes this and similar topics have received plus the fact that these styluses are the more expensive kind should make for a valid business case) and implement the necessary Bluetooth hooks in order to get "official" stylus support for the tab w/o the need to revamp hardware (maybe one could sell such stylus through the shop for Jolla to reclaim their development costs?).

This would also add yet another distinguishing feature compared to the army of Android tabs where only the high-end Samsung ones provide active stylus support.