The best Stylus for Tablets?

[jakethevape]

As the thread title says what is the best stylus for tablets?

To put a picture I am not a noob to this kind of tech, I dabble with app development and heavily indulge into digital art when time lets me.

I was the proud owner of a Samsung galaxy note 2 (10.1) tablet which had the Samsung S-Pen (to all that don't know Wacom make this pen and digitizer built into the Samsung product)
basically the S-Pen with this device was amazing, I could recreate fine lines perfect for digital art manipulation but in the end I decided to part with it as I had a nasty bill come up for the car.

So now I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0), pretty cheap compared to its bigger note brother. I am desperate to find a half decent stylus to work with it, has anyone had any luck??.

Something like the Wacom Bamboo looks cool, but its got the same rubber end as my el-cheap-o £2 ebay one and I am thinking could this £25 stylus be much different to the cheap one?. Obviously the screen is capacitive so it has to be a stylus that is compatible with that.

Also another one I was looking at is DAGi Stylus Pen P507, which looks identical to a pen however it has a little transparent disc at the bottom that allows you to see the line point whilst maintaining its capacitive screen requirements.

Any advice would be HIGHLY appreciated as Google brings up the same drivle of sales marketing poop.

[fred]

Mar 25, 2013 14:32:09 GMT jakethevape said:

As the thread title says what is the best stylus for tablets?

I left it a while, for others to answer, but to no avail.

The best one I can suggest is the one attatched to your hand 

..at least you cant lose it 

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful!

Can you not get one of the ones you used to have with your note? (Possibly direct from Samsung?)

[JimmyJ]

I have been using the rubber end of my ecig lookalike, although only seems to work when its a little bit warm from my mouth :lol:

[jakethevape]

Mar 25, 2013 16:04:48 GMT fred said:

Mar 25, 2013 14:32:09 GMT jakethevape said:

As the thread title says what is the best stylus for tablets?

I left it a while, for others to answer, but to no avail.

The best one I can suggest is the one attatched to your hand 

..at least you cant lose it 

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful!

Can you not get one of the ones you used to have with your note? (Possibly direct from Samsung?)

hehe yup cant loose the finger very easily!. But Its mainly for fine art use.

The one from the Note is a whole different kettle of fish, as the screen has a built in digitizer which eliminates the use of the annoying rubber tipped ones.

I just cant work out that a £25 'rubber tipped' stylus is going to be any different to my cheap £2 one, the ends look identical with exception to the £25 one being made from nice alloys rather than nasty £2 one that feels light as anything.

[saphire]

I have an IPad and use the Adonit jot Pro and the Jot Touch for my paintings but you do have to have a screen protector on at all times, if you miss any dust on the screen it could scratch.

[jakethevape]

Mar 25, 2013 16:24:48 GMT saphire said:

I have an IPad and use the Adonit jot Pro and the Jot Touch for my paintings but you do have to have a screen protector on at all times, if you miss any dust on the screen it could scratch.

Funny enough that is the one I have been looking at also. The only thing that's frustrating is that all the reviews are on ipads and "top spec" android tablets. As this little Galaxy Tab2 7.0 is a tad old its pretty low spec compared, but as an experimental device (custom ROMs/developing apps) its ideal. I want to start work on a art app soon which is why I need a stylus that is pretty accurate.

I am trying to keep costs down as the new Samsung Galaxy note 8.0 is due out sometime this year which is Far FAR better.

[Adam78]

I have these 2 for my Nexus 7

TeckNet Stylus

Trent Stylus

Not expensive and work nicely

[saphire]

I have used it on my galaxy note and it works very well. All the paintings I have done on the Ipad is in the link in my signature, unfortunately ArtRage doesn't run on Android yet which is a shame.

[fred]

Can you find local retailer that sells the one you're interested in - take your tablet long to try it. If it's what you want but too expensive, or not what you want just tell them "Nah, it's a bit rubbish. See ya!"

[jakethevape]

Mar 25, 2013 17:16:51 GMT fred said:

Can you find local retailer that sells the one you're interested in - take your tablet long to try it. If it's what you want but too expensive, or not what you want just tell them "Nah, it's a bit rubbish. See ya!"

There all chain shops so they wont dare to open one up to let me try it before buying it (amazing how unfriendly shopping is these days since major corps dominated all the small company's out of business!).

I may try and nip to the apple store as a last resort but I will be lynched for having android and NOT apple so I don't think they will be of much help lol

[jakethevape]

Mar 25, 2013 16:56:44 GMT saphire said:

I have used it on my galaxy note and it works very well. All the paintings I have done on the Ipad is in the link in my signature, unfortunately ArtRage doesn't run on Android yet which is a shame.

I have seen your work before, fasinating art work you have done!. I think the jot pro would be spot on BUT as the ipad screen is a more superior design I dont think I will get the same results on my Galaxy Tab 2. I have tried searching for "said stylus with a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and nothing comes up. lol how frustrating can getting a working stylus be

[fred]

Not sure if Tescos would have one.

I needed 2A charger/power supply for my Raspberry Pi.
Tescos phone dept had cheap one which did not say how powerfull it was. He said I had to buy it, but then open it and see if it was OK. Opened it, only 500mA, so he imediately refunded me.

Funny thing was, the refund hit my account before the money was taken out!!

Not sure they'd have a stylus though. Maybe you should just take up finger-painting rather than fine art

Good Luck

[jakethevape]

Mar 25, 2013 17:54:59 GMT fred said:

Not sure if Tescos would have one.

I needed 2A charger/power supply for my Raspberry Pi.
Tescos phone dept had cheap one which did not say how powerfull it was. He said I had to buy it, but then open it and see if it was OK. Opened it, only 500mA, so he imediately refunded me.

Funny thing was, the refund hit my account before the money was taken out!!

Not sure they'd have a stylus though. Maybe you should just take up finger-painting rather than fine art

Good Luck

lol finger painting OR go out an buy a top spec Wacom graphic tablet *droooooools*...... im not a gadget nerd ..... honestly *shopping*

[wayne]

This one looks pretty good, works on the Galaxy:



They do have them on Ebay for £17.71 with free p+p but from Taiwan

[wayne]

Here it is on the Galaxy: