Stylus Recommendation

Nicanor Babula deadhorus at gmail.com
Sat May 3 09:12:48 CEST 2008


Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Hans L <thehans at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>>  I am not an electrical engineer, but I think that the voltage/current
>>  produced from such a magnet would be negligible.  But, even assuming
>>  that it would not be harmful, isn't the case made of plastic?  Is
>>     
>
> Well you could take apart the phone and try to find a place to stash a
> small, really strong neodymium magnet.  Then use a thin steel stylus
> (with a soft plastic tip), shaped to fit against whatever surface has
> the magnet.  It could even fit against the side of the phone, if it
> had a slightly concave shape.  Or mod the case to have a shallow
> groove for the stylus to fit into, then the stylus could just be a
> thin steel bar, or rounded on one side as suggested.  Since the magnet
> doesn't move, it shouldn't cause any inductive pulses (although it
> might cause electrons that are trying to move in a straight line to go
> off in a curve instead.  Not sure if that would affect anything...)
>
>
>   

Now I am using a motorola A1200E "Motoming" (linux based ;) ) and it has 
a stylus too. I like very much the way the stylus is attached to my 
motorola and I would like to see it on the neo if it doesn't create 
large additional costs.

Check it out:
http://direct.motorola.com/hellomoto/motomingedge/




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