Аксессуар Adonit Snap Black

UPDATED BELOW. PLEASE READ BELOW, in the updates, where I explain why the stylus does not work properly with *some* devices.
ORIGINAL POST:
I'm a collage artist, and an illustrator. I bought an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil recently, which are awesome. However, I wanted a similar stylus to the Apple one for the rest of my devices (I have more iPads, and Android phones+tablets). So I tried this one, and I absolutely love it! Bluetooth works as advertised, and the stylus even works without pairing.
Now, I don't use this product for notes and such (which admittedly it's what it was made for). I use it only for illustration. I need to clear this up a bit, because this stylus won't work properly for all illustrators, and won't work for almost any painter (if we could draw a virtual line between illustrators and painters in terms of visual style).
There are two features that digital artists need from their active styluses:
1. The ability to have thin or thick lines, depending on how they hold the stylus (pressure sensitivity)
2. Palm rejection (so the device doesn't think that your palm resting on it is actually drawing)
This stylus doesn't have pressure support, so for most artists who use that feature, it might not be a great deal. However, for artists who sketch, who do comics outlines, and who do plain illustration (basically, inked outlines with coloring inside -- a type very popular today called "lifestyle illustrations", or fashion illustration), this works perfectly on my iPad!
As for palm rejection: you're not supposed to draw without artist's gloves. Even with the Apple Pencil, that supports palm rejection, the iPad Pro constantly interprets my palm as drawing. Possibly as much as once a minute or so, which is annoying. Without the usage of artist's gloves (they cost just $5), you're asking for trouble anyway. So I don't see palm rejection missing on this stylus as a problem since gloves are a must anyway.
I quickly tested the stylus on these devices successfully (latest software installed on all):
- Amazon Fire, 7"
- OnePlus One, "
- Moto G4 Plus, "
- iPad Pro, "
- iPad 2, "
- iPod Touch, 6th Gen
The stylus worked both as Bluetooth and as active stylus in all configurations, except the old iPad 2, which doesn't support the kind of Bluetooth that this stylus requires (it still works perfectly in stylus mode though).
**UPDATE 1:** I just discovered something, that could explain why people have so split opinions on this product. I also changed my rating from 5 stars to 3 stars because of this discovery.
So, I placed my devices on top of my desk, made out of WOOD, and the stylus started MISBEHAVING. On the Moto G4 Plus, only 1/4th of the strokes would register, and on the Amazon Fire only half the strokes would register, and even worse, the lines were jerky and squishy (not perfect lines as drawn). On top of wood, only very slanted strokes would register 100% (which makes it impossible to draw).
Then, I tried on top of my kitchen table which is made out of GLASS. SAME problem, with the SAME devices!
When I placed the same devices on top of METAL (in fact, I placed them on top of my bamboo wacom tablet), the stylus started working MUCH BETTER (just not perfectly).
They worked PERFECTLY only on top of my lap, or my hand (in the air).
This happened with both Bluetooth on or off on the devices.
However, the OnePlus One phone AND the iPod/iPads worked perfectly, no matter if it was on top of wood, or metal, or skin/air, or glass. Only the Moto G4 Plus and Amazon Fire only worked properly atop specific surfaces! Is it because these two specific devices don't have a compass? This is the only common thread I found between all these devices that could interfere with the stylus: the fact that the Moto G4 Plus and Fire 7" (from all of my devices) don't have a compass!
So, there is definitely something weird that happens with SOME devices when sitting atop SPECIFIC surfaces, that throws the stylus out of whack. It's possible that it's the magnet inside the stylus to blame (in conjunction to the missing compass on devices???), but I'll leave that to the engineers to find out what is going on. This is an issue that needs to be sent to the Adonit engineers ASAP.
** UPDATE 2:** Confirmed with further testing, the problem seems to be the MAGNET on the stylus. Both the two problematic devices (Moto G4 Plus, and Amazon Fire 7") are MAGNETIC to the stylus out of the box, without even having to use the included magnet accessory (the stylus just sticks to them at any point in their body). Because the stylus is very magnetic to these devices when directly on top of the screen, it INTERFERES with its proper operation.
On the iPod/iPads and the OnePlus One the stylus is only magnetic on the SIDES, away from the screen, and that's why the stylus works well on these devices at all times!
Mystery solved, and it explains why so many people here have trouble with the stylus. It begs the question if Adonit actually tested their product properly with enough Android devices. I think they didn't. Magnet interference should have shown up during testing. They should not have assumed that all devices aren't magnetic directly under the screen.
** UPDATE 3 **: After more testing with even more devices, the stylus just doesn't work properly. Not only it has the problems explained above, but it also writes (when it writes) off, about 1 cm away from where its tip is. Impossible to be precise with it. I have updated my rating down to 1 star.
I'm a stylus junky. I love handwriting notes but, since it's 2016, need those notes to be digital and synced to every device I own (and sometimes devices other people own). I prefer writing with an active stylus, of course, but have purchased a ton of capacitive stylus devices for iPad's. I'm currently using an iPad Air 2. I recently moved on from my Note 4 to a Nexus 6p, so I'm trying to make something work there as well.
Firstly, this stylus is built well enough. The top plastic insert, near the charging port, has popped out on one side a couple of times but that could just be mine. It's trivial to snap back into place. The stylus is very light but feels nice due to the aluminum body. The combination of carpenter pencil style and extreme light weight makes it feel weird to me, a little fragile, maybe. It's definitely nice when writing a ton, however, to help reduce hand fatigue.
As far as performance goes, it's not my favorite thing. If you are making quick annotations to a map or PDF, the stylus works fine. Big shapes, fast lines and marks, those happen without issue. There is a tiny amount of stroke lag but nothing to get upset about. There is an offset to the location of the stroke compared to where the tip is resting on the screen, and it sucks. More about that below.
Where the stylus fails me completely is writing. I've used this thing in several apps including Onenote, UPAD3, Notability, Noteshelf, and Adobe Acrobat. UPAD3 has the best ink I've found in any iPad app, and Notability has by far the best palm rejection, but this stylus had challenges that none of the mesh-tipped blobby stylus' had, even a bog-standard crappy-59-cent stylus.
Super unscientific diagnosis follows.
What challenged me was the Snap's offset: where the ink appeared related to the tips location on the screen. That the offset was there is bad enough but can be gotten used to. This offset, however, would move, and I think it was moving based on the location of the capacitive sensors. You can see this demonstrated best when drawing a diagonal line using one of these fine-tipped stylus': draw the line quickly and it comes out straight, but if you draw the line slowly it will create "steps" and the line looks terrible.
It seems like this is what's happening when writing with the Snap: even when writing fairly quickly, the location of the ink can shift slightly as you work your way through the capacitive sensor matrix or grid, and this makes the resulting writing look messy. It was impossible for me to get neat writing using the Snap. It also seemed like the distance at which the stylus was detected would vary; even if it was a small change it made writing feel very unnatural.
I had the best luck in UPAD, which has a pull-up "shade" that completely ignores touch screen input. Notability has palm rejection so good that with any mesh-tip stylus I can rest my hand on the screen all day without making stray marks, but not with the Snap. It was arrant mark city, which would then cause even more issues with my writing.
There's no way a capacitive stylus is going to compare to an active digitizer, but I had high hopes that the Snap would give me a more portable, fine-tipped stylus solution for situations when I'm not carrying my Surface Book around. Unfortunately I have too much difficulty using it for taking notes and will have to keep looking.
For basic annotations or more precise edits to photos, though, this stylus works well.
Oddly enough I didn't purchase this stylus for anything to terribly elaborate, merely just faster texting with Android's SwiftKey. That and stylus portability, similar to that of the old early 2000s palm pilots. It's not quite as small as the aforementioned but it's definitly the best I've found for the price.
As for overall function. Well, yes the intended faster texting is great and works well for that purpose. No more finger oil on my screen so the casual nosy friend can guess the lock code! Also a huge plus. Really, the only thing to get used to is the weight and feel of the style itself. Admittedly I still am, however I remain optimistic in that regard. It is initially a bit awkward but definitly do-able. I hope that eventually that ultra thin palm pilot type has a true successor; with that being said, until then, I am quite content with this Adonit Snap. Kudos