What can you do with a 600pixel by 200pixel passive colour touchscreen Today? Part 4.

BY today's standards, a 6 inch screen having only 120000pixels and 65k colours is extremely UGLY. Ugly as it is, the possibility of creating good-looking graphics are limitless given a slow2 BUT robust graphics package. POCKET ARTIST on windows CE, has a software footprint of only 2MB, yet it has all the functions a professional graphic artist could use to produce commercial grade pictures. DRAW anything you can dream of, on any number of layer, using any combination of brushes, pencils, felt tip pens, airsprays, chalk or crayons to create still pictures and animated gifs.Yes, no kidding, you can drawing moving gifs on a 16MB 15 year-old handheld pc. Adobe Ideas that runs on an Android or iOS tablet pales in contrast to Pocket Artist. Even Photoshop Touch looks like a baby's toy. One biggest drawback of a capacitive tablet is that you can only use your finger to 'draw', and your finger blocks the drawing path from your eyes, making it impossible for you to make precise line drawings. While a resistive screen may need recalibration often, then its pressure sensitive nature plus the touch feedback from its plastic covering makes the 'drawing' experience closer to drawing on a piece of paper. Anyhow, Apple's decision to do away with the stylus is BUT a very stupid decision.

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