{"id":2464,"date":"2009-10-11T19:11:46","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T19:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/11\/in-praise-of-the-psion-stylus\/"},"modified":"2009-10-11T19:11:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T19:11:46","slug":"in-praise-of-the-psion-stylus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/10\/in-praise-of-the-psion-stylus\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of the Psion Stylus"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there is one thing that marks me out as very old school it’s the stylus that I carry when out and about. For all the resistive touch screens (ie almost everything but the iPhone) on a multitude of devices i tend to use the built in stylus for about five minutes before reaching into my drawer of spare parts for one of the many pointers I have for the Psion 5mx (and similar machines).<\/p>\n

\"Psion<\/a> Two main reasons I still use it. First of all is the shape – with a triangular barrel as the main part gives your hand something to grip onto, and also means it won’t roll away when you put it down on a table.<\/p>\n

The second is the length. At almost six inches long, it sits comfortably in the hand,just like a physical pen or pencil. This reduces the strain on your hand in prolonged use, makes it easier to navigate around a large touch screen, and it can easily sit in your hand while typing two handed on devices like the Nokia N97.<\/p>\n

Sp yes, thank you to all the manufacturers there when they design small styli to fit in tiny spaces that are comfy for about five minutes – I’ll stick with a tried and tested British solution. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If there is one thing that marks me out as very old school it’s the stylus that I carry when out and about. For all the resistive touch screens (ie almost everything but the iPhone) on a multitude of devices i tend to use the built in stylus for about five minutes before reaching into my drawer of spare parts for one of the many pointers I have for the Psion 5mx (and similar machines). Two main reasons I still use it. First of all is the shape – with a triangular barrel as the main part gives your hand<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4,575],"tags":[1409,1408,540,1407],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pocket-computers-and-phones","category-netbook-pocket-computers-and-phones","tag-favourite","tag-pointer","tag-psion","tag-stylus","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-DK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}