Question for iPod Touch users: stylus?

[dvandom]

I know the Touch doesn't have a stylus, but can it be used with one? In other words, is the screen more like a PDA screen, where any pressure will do the trick, or is it like some laptop touchpads, where only bare skin seems to work? Sometimes I want to operate my PDA while wearing gloves, or while my hands aren't as clean as I'd like, making the stylus useful, and if a Touch can be used with one, I'd just grab one of my spares and keep it with the thing should I get a Touch.

Comments

[wistling.livejournal.com]

Finger only, as far as I can tell. Multi-touch functionality also means that using a stylus makes it hard to do a few things on the screen.

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

It uses the same sort of electroconductive control surface as the old iPod, where it needs the conductivity of flesh in order to register a touch.

You can get special styli or pens with tips that simulate that conductivity, but it wouldn't work with one of your pre-existing ones. And as wistling indicates, it wouldn't work with multitouch unless you got two of them and used them like chopsticks…

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Heh, shades of Adele Mundy.

[diosoth.livejournal.com]

This is one of 2 factors making me avoid the iPod touch/iPhone(the other being the price). I don't like screen smudges from fingerprints.

[robotech-master.livejournal.com]

Use a good screen protector and you'll barely notice them.

[finback.livejournal.com]

You've got the Touch?