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Two Reasons We Need Better Inking on Small Mobile Devices

With the exception of the Fujitsu P1620 (and the P1610) with its palm rejection technology, and the Asus line of UMPCs that operate with a “harder touch screen” than most UMPCs, there are very few choices for Inkers out there who want to use a UMPC for Inking. That is of course, unless you want to rely on resting your hand on a bezel or holding it unnaturally when you take pen to screen. I’ve ranted, begged, pleaded, and wept about this before, and will continue to do so. Someone has to fight the good fight. But there are at least two new reasons why I think OEMs should re-examine their stances on Inking on a touch screen. And guess what, those two reasons are excellent pieces of software that lo and behold allow you to take advantage of Inking as a data input method.

The two reasons: InkSeine and the new EverNote.

PS: As soon as we get more EverNote Beta invites we’ll be dishing them out.

Tags: InkSeine, EverNote

Software | Ultra Mobile PC

3/27/2008 6:33 AM MST

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Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:12:58 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Got to agree on this one! I'm getting good use out of my HTC Shift as a substitute for my M700 in many situations where I want to be more portable, but inking is far more difficult due to the vectoring issues prevalent in passive screens.

At a minumum we just need palm rejection cabability as per the P1620, or hopefully, and yes it will add to cost, passive/active screens like the M700.

Gavin Miller

Thursday, March 27, 2008 8:57:05 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Don't forget that the Fujitsu U810 has Palm rejection as well. I really like it for inking. I have a Q1P that I used, but the U810 is really nice, when it comes to inking.

Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:28:56 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

Wish we could edit posts on here. 'minumum' and 'cabability'. Good grief, lol.

I wonder if it would be possible through a software utility to bring palm rejection to other UMPCs as I assume, perhaps incorrectly, it is a software and not a hardware feature on the P1620 and U810?

Gavin Miller

Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:31:31 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

I have the same dreams of an active digitizer UMPC that's larger than the OQO Model 02. I also want it lean and mean (thinner than a macbook air, and light). I have a crackpot side-project going where such a thing would be very useful, if it existed.

I wish there was some way to rip that digitizer off of the iRex iLiad ebook reader and duct-tape it to my UMPC. There must be some UMPC hacker extraordinaire who could pull that off!

Ken Hinckley

Thursday, March 27, 2008 11:24:52 AM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

I don't know if the u810 has palm rejection, but it is not bad to ink on compared to .... a q1? Some people complain of soft screens, so it must be a crapshoot.

Anyhow, these two programs are amazing. And they need more attention. As a new user of a UMPC (who needs to integrate with Macs) I've said that Evernote is the best new program I've used lately. But Inkseine is fun and inventive in a way that makes Origami look a bit silly.

guthrie

Friday, March 28, 2008 5:05:43 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

HG, are you sure about that? I've used a Fujitsu U810 (I do not own one) and it definitely had serious vectoring issues when inking. I noticed no palm rejection whatsoever. Of course, with a screen the size of the U810, it is somewhat easier to keep your hand off the screen by leaning on the bezel instead.

That being said, I agree, as always, with Warner's comments on inking. It remains a big gap on smaller devices. The recent comments that were posted with the N-Trig representative certainly sound positive with respect to seeing that gap bridged on smaller (7"-9") screen devices.

Stephen Feger

Saturday, March 29, 2008 10:07:49 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)

We need more UMPCs that utilize the multi-touch screens - active + passive digitizers. That way, no vectoring, plus you can still use your finger pads to tap on the screen. No need to press hard with your finger nails.

Joseph Kim

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