HTC Flyer Android Tablet Comes With a Pen
HTC today announced the Flyer, a 7-inch tablet that runs Android 2.4 with a customized HTC Sense user interface. The company debuted the device at Mobile World Congress (MWC) and spent time demonstrating the 3-D Sense widget interface as well as another unique feature: an included stylus pen. Using the pen on the Flyer’s touch-sensitive display allows for note-taking and limited drawing activities. Also included is support for HTC’s new video download service — HTC Watch — and OnLive’s cloud gaming system . HTC expects to ship the Flyer globally in the second quarter of 2011. The capacitive stylus pen may be more of a gimmick than a productivity tool, unfortunately, because I’ve used dozens of tablet computers over the past seven years and one mantra has always held true: Unless there’s palm-rejection software or the display uses a dual digitizer to separate pen from touch, the pen experience will be sub-par. Indeed, the few videos I’ve seen of the Flyer show people dra...