I hope no one goes out to buy these!

[Skatturbrain]

If I remember correctly the G1 will not work with a stylus. Makes me wonder if the accessories they are selling are even for the g1 like it states.... HMMMMMMM

http://www.boxwave.com/accessories/t...tylus_3283.htm

[HaRLeYQuiNN]

If I remember correctly the G1 will not work with a stylus. Makes me wonder if the accessories they are selling are even for the g1 like it states.... HMMMMMMM

http://www.boxwave.com/accessories/t...tylus_3283.htm

people will do anything for money these days i bet they don't even know how the phone works but their are selling crap for it just because there's huge anticipation for it...

[FuriousBat]

If I remember correctly the G1 will not work with a stylus. Makes me wonder if the accessories they are selling are even for the g1 like it states.... HMMMMMMM

http://www.boxwave.com/accessories/t...tylus_3283.htm

well the i heard the iphone doesn't work with a stylus. but there were special ones that were made. so maybe these aren't ordinary styluses but custom to work with it. i didn't check the link so im not sure if it somes universal one or specifiacally for the g1. but thats just my 2 cents.

[GrimShadows]

Hmmm.. I have seen a few other sites selling stylist as well for the G1 as well..
I do not recall hearing either way if these would work or not..

[mixpix405]

Its just like all the usb cables, headphone adapters, replacement batteries, etc that they sell... Sure, they may "work" with the G1, but they are NOT "G1" accessories.

Some people think that you can just slap the name of a specific phone on an item and sell it better... And, I guess they are right in some sense, because I know people buy them, just because it says "G1"...

Whatever it takes to make a buck, I suppose... Can't blame 'em... if it works, it works.

[missxoash]

I have looked to find this answer wherever I saw it but I can't. (It's late, don't blame me. lol) But I am about 99% sure I read that the G1 will NOT work with a stylus, that the touch screen somehow reacts to the actual finger.

[New World]

I have looked to find this answer wherever I saw it but I can't. (It's late, don't blame me. lol) But I am about 99% sure I read that the G1 will NOT work with a stylus, that the touch screen somehow reacts to the actual finger.

It was made to work with your finger

So your correct

[Xondria]

this was from another thread http://androidcommunity.com/forums/f41/nokia-tube-vs-apple-iphone-vs-android-g1-1522/index2.html#post13573

There is one for the iPhone that should work fine for the G1. It has capacitive foam on the end of a metal stick so your bodies capacitance can flow through the stick as if you were using your finger. Problem is both with the G1 and iPhone there is no where to store it in the phone itself so it's just one more thing to carry.

Here's a link to the company that makes it...

http://www.tenonedesign.com/stylus.php

I'm assuming any made for the iphone will work for the G1 as well. There's some on Amazon that have the foam too. I didn't link since their links are so long.

[felixHcat]

the screen is capacitive.

A capacitive touchscreen panel is coated with a material, typically indium tin oxide that conducts a continuous electrical current across the sensor. [2] [3] The sensor therefore exhibits a precisely controlled field of stored electrons in both the horizontal and vertical axes - it achieves capacitance. The human body is also an electrical device which has stored electrons and therefore also exhibits capacitance. When the sensor's 'normal' capacitance field (its reference state) is altered by another capacitance field, i.e., someone's finger, electronic circuits located at each corner of the panel measure the resultant 'distortion' in the sine wave characteristics of the reference field and sends the information about the event to the controller for mathematical processing. Capacitive sensors can either be touched with a bare finger or with a conductive device being held by a bare hand.

- Wikipedia

So if the metal used to manufacture the stylus conducts electricity, it will work with the G1.

EDIT: The cool thing about capacitive touch screens is that you don't even need to touch them... just bringing an electric field (read: your finger) close to it will register a touch event.

[isaac65]

Yeah, I just looked at that link and the close-up picture of the stylus shows a white plastic tip typical of a Palm device stylus. I highly doubt this would work on the G1.