Pogo Sketch review

After using both tablets and tablet PCs, the Pogo Sketch stylus turned out to basically be waste of money. Perhaps I should’ve lowered my expectations a bit but here is why I think it isn’t worth the price unless all you need is to move about the iPhone OS without doing any sketching:

1. Thickness of the tip. About 5mm in diameter, it is simply too thick to tell which part of the tip will create a line on the screen, which can get fairly irritating if you’re trying to be precise with your sketching.
2. Softness of the tip. I’d think most iPhone users keep their phones in cases with a plastic cover over the screen like I do. Having the cover means applying more pressure on the stylus for the phone to notice. Since the tip is made of soft foam, it seems to flatten out after only a bit of sketching with pressure applied to the stylus, and you start to scrub against the screen with the aluminum casing rather than the tip.
3. Using with a MacBook. I don’t know how else I imagined this to work out, but of course there is no button to press like on a tablet pen: you have to draw with one hand and press the trackpad button with another to draw something. Also, unlike with a tablet where you can jump to any area of the screen, here you have to use the stylus to position the cursor where you want it on the screen first. Logical, I know: that’s how trackpads work, and all we’re doing is using a stylus rather than our finger. But, it just means using the MacBook as a tablet is that much far off from using a tablet and, by extension, what this is advertised to be.

I suppose it’s not too expensive to worry about it, but the only use I see for the Pogo Sketch at this point is for when it’s cold outside and you have gloves on. 

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