Accessories: iPhone Stylus? Do you Really Need it?

Steve Jobs will certainly hate this product. I suspect that he would even be offended if he sees you using your iPhone with it. But if you¹ve found it difficult or frustrating to type on your iPhone, then the new CoolTapp stylus could be for you. If you have fat fingers or if you're a woman with very long nails, the stylus may be for you as well. But personally, I would never use a stylus with my iPhone. It would feel like ten years ago.

If you tried the CoolTap, let us know. I still want to know how well it works.

You can get the CoolTapp now on ebay for an introductory price of $12.95

Comments

[Kate]

It's not a real stylus. It's a cheap pen. And it's a rip off.

[Sam]

The CoolTapp is definitely not a rip off. Yes you can use it as a pen but it also works perfectly as a stylus on the iphone. I bought one and it works great. I don't know what I did before I got it. I love mine and I wouldn't want to be without it. Perhaps you should try one before you judge it.

[Kathi]

Well, I got duped with this! It's a metal pen! Try any flat top pen in your drawer - they all work! Gotta hand it to her - she found something I hadn't found on my own, but clearly deceptive advertising it as a "stylus".

[Iliene]

Sam is a plant by Suemusik on E-bay. TOTAL PIECE OF CRAP - It works if you want to risk permanently scratching your screen. Yes, FLAT METAL edges will scratch your screen. COOL TAPP IS a JOKE!!!

[cpmcd2000]

The person selling these is an effin asshole... and ripping people off majorly.

http://hotfreshnow.blogspot.com/2007/12/scam-cooltapp-for-your-iphone.html

[David White]

-----JUST ANOTHER PEN------

I hate this thing. Sue Musik is a a jerk. Her product sucks. This thing is crap. I hate it. I only paid like 6 bucks for it but it really sucks. Don't buy and tell sue how much her last customer hates her and her stupid pen. *Even the pen sucks* Look at the pogo stylus maybe.

[David White]

-----JUST ANOTHER PEN------

I hate this thing. Sue Musik is a a jerk. Her product sucks. This thing is crap. I hate it. I only paid like 6 bucks for it but it really sucks. Don't buy and tell sue how much her last customer hates her and her stupid pen. *Even the pen sucks* Look at the pogo stylus maybe.

[Dave White]

Just wanna say sorry for the things I said about suemusik. She was reasonable in taking back negative feedback and worked with me to take it off. I have to say I was kind of angry and it was my first ebay experience.

[Ali Liddel]

Personally, I'm wishing there were obvious certainty for some justifiably positive hype re a stylus for us with either 1) beautiful fingers, or 2) fat fingers. I guess not yet. To speak positively - I'm just waiting.

Indeed, why rely on metal to enable you to scratch the screen? Why not find or DEVELOP some substance like a rubber pencil-eraser, say modify somehow so that 1) there's no smudge, 2) it lasts vastly longer, but perhaps also be able to replace the tip if it 'wears out' 3) it can imitate the soft-pushing brush of a finger, as its varied pressure and width touching increases, then decreases? 4) imitate the differing warmth of skin (using some form of battery power e.g. AAA in the stylus?), and 3) moisture i.e. so you need to slightly moisten it each time you begin to use it, if that's detectable by the iTouch/iPhone?

I suspect one possible huge motivation Apple (or say, Adobe) could have for such an item to actually work, reliably, would be the potential for one to PhotoshopTouch artistically a little blip sometimes when it just pops up in your mind's eyes that you will want to turn into an image later, but you want to make a little visual note to yourself. An iStylus could be creatively very useful. Isn't such interest already well-recognized? And being responded to?