When Adonit announced the Jot Script at the 2013 Evernote Conference, the form-factor of the stylus caused a bit of a stir among those of us who take our iOS accessories seriously. Admittedly, that's probably a sign that we need to get out more, but Adonit's new stylus entry is impressive: It's the first stylus to market that has an actual pen tip rather than a rubber-nibbed bubble.
We'd been told previously this kind of small-nibbed stylus was a fantasy—that the iPad's multi-touch grid would only render finger-sized taps, hence the necessity for rubber and plastic disks. But Adonit has used technical wizardry to bypass this restriction, mapping pen to iOS device via a low-energy Bluetooth connection.
The technology
This isn't the first time Adonit has used Bluetooth to enable extra functionality in its styluses—its first attempt, the Jot Touch, successfully simulates 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity and offers palm-rejection for supported apps. Likewise, the Script prefers supported apps to truly unleash its Pixelpoint technology and offer precise writing and sketching, but I tested it successfully with several other writing and drawing programs as well without too much degradation.
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