Styli for iPhone & iPod touch

Am I the only one who gets more misses than hits with the on-screen keyboard of the iPhone and iPod touch? Typing accuracy is OK when my iPod touch is resting on a flat surface, but it is another story altogether when I’m walking or while I’m on a bumpy car ride. So I thought, “Why not try a stylus?”

The screen of the iPhone and iPod touch is capacitive, which means I cannot recycle any of the styli I have in my graveyard of PDAs.

So I took a trip down to my local store today, and discovered two styli made for the iPhone and iPod touch.

Ray-Out Touch Pen

The Ray-Out Touch Pen (Ray-Out Japan, approximately

US$14) is about the length of the iPod touch. It has a conductive tip made of rubber that is angled (not such a great notion; more on that later). The tip of the Touch Pen is the width of a key on the on-screen keyboard. The other end of the Touch Pen conveniently sports a pen clip.

I’ve been using the Touch Pen for a couple of days. My typing accuracy has improved a lot, since I can now see more of what my fingers would block. Using the stylus additionally meant a smudge-free screen. But that product is not without its shortcomings.
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Orginal post by Clayton Lai

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