Hi to all:
The following is for your information. Please note I'm still using NuShields despite the following, I guess I just have to be more careful. I think that for best results the shield has to be well stretched and in good contact with the screen. You may not see that the shield is lose, but unless it is in complete contact with the Screen at all areas, you will feel resistance to the Stylus and the tip would wear off, I think...
>Subject: NuShield And Newton Pens
>From: khaledt@earthlink.net
>Hi Mark:
>I have put on a NuShield on my Newton for the first time about a month
>ago. I also had a new Newton stylus at the same time.
>
>At first the pen was running on the shield very smoothly, it was
>wonderful. However, after about two weeks I started to feel roughness when
>writing or scrolling, I thought at first that the NuShield was wearing
>off. But, by the fourth week things were pretty rough with all the signs
>of a worn stylus tip.
>
>I removed the shield and tried writing directly on the screen (which was
>thoroughly clean), ouch, I felt shivers ruining up my arm, yep, the tip
>was gone.
>
>I put on a new NuShield and I 'm Still using the worn tip stylus. I do
>have another new stylus and another used one in a good condition, but I'm
>not going to risk losing another stylus in a month.
>
>Any ideas on NuShields and stylus tips wear.
>
>
>
>BTW, while my screen was naked, I tried the Cross Digital Writer and I
>have one word to say: WOW
>
>The feel was superb, the pen weight and pressure were excellent and the
>accuracy was unbeleavable. I was very impressed,
>
>But I would never risk using it on a NuSheild and I do not have the guts
>to use my Newton with a naked screen (Cross writer or not), not after I
>had lost one screen already and have been lucky to land a new screen in
>Saudi Arabia, no no, I will never risk my screen.
>
>Dr. Khaled M. Tewfik,
>Saudi Arabia
>
>\\ /,
>'( Newton Technology
> \
> =
>
>(Sent from an Apple Newton MP2100)
>
>
Thanks for the input. You should post this to the list for all to read,
its a very good cautionary tale. As for styli, you are the first to ask
about stylus wear using NuShields. The NuShield surface is tough but not
very abrasive. I suspect that various styli tips are very soft to give a
particular writing feel. There were those in the past who opined that a
very soft stylus would not scratch the screen. I wouldn't chance it but
its those styli that may wear out more quickly. I suspect, although I
haven't tried it, that the soft styli feel better on the bare screen
because they "stick" a bit and provide some traction instead of the slick
feel of the naked screen. NuShields are designed to mimic this even with
a harder stylus tip by being slightly rough themselves. IMHO, you don't
need one of the soft tips to get the feel you're after with a NuShield in
place.
Mark Ross
markr13@voicenet.com
Dr. Khaled M. Tewfik,
Saudi Arabia
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'( Newton Technology
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(Sent from an Apple Newton MP2100)
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