14 DAY TRIAL // Introduced last month at the 2011 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, HTC Flyer is the Taiwanese manufacturer’s first Android tablet available on the market.
Even though it was considered to be at disadvantage in comparison with its main competitors because of the smaller touchscreen display, the tablet is stuffed with HTC's innovative software.
One of these innovative technologies is called Scribe and allows users to draw, write or scribble using as special pen that comes with the tablet.
HTC officials insisted that this is not a “dead stick” meant to help users navigate through the device's menus and explained that the Flyer does not even need such an item to navigate.
In fact, the new pen has a pressure-sensitive tip and can be used with the tablet's built-in apps like Sketchbook and Notes, both of which offer the ability to draw directly on the tablet's screen using pen-based input.
In a recent interview for ReadWriteWeb, HTC Rep Keith Nowak said:
“The new pen has a pressure-sensitive tip and can be used with the tablet's built-in apps like Sketchbook and Notes, both of which offer the ability to draw directly on the tablet's screen using pen-based input. But the really exciting thing about the pen? The technology, which HTC calls Scribe, will be opened up to third-party development.”
The pen can also be used to share weblinks, locations or pictures directly on the user's Facebook account skipping the log in process.
However, no timeline was offered for the technology’s availability, especially since the HTC Flyer is not even commercially available at the moment.
It is expected that the Scribe becomes open for developers, as soon as the Evo View tablet arrives at Sprint, sometime this summer.