YuFu Styluses and Styli

You may know already that I'm a keen observer of styles of sharp styli, so to speak. Several YuFu products of company named HEX3 have come to my attention recently. These are plain YuFu, YouFu Focus, and YuFu Pro.

Plain YuFu is nothing to write about, as apparently it's just an overpriced (knurled metal grip!)and totally ordinary squishy rubber stylus every Chinese manufacturer offers for a $1 per pound:

Nameless metal versions of it can be had for a half of asking price of YuFu. But with the business end of this YuFu being exactly the same as in cheapest styli all this aluminum and knurling are totally wasted in practice. So, FuYu here, plain YuFu.

YuFu Focus is a bit different stick in that it accommodates 2 more tips in addition to a squishy rubber:

While the rubber thingie is of no interest to mere here, the left tip very much resembles an earlier and deprecated version of Dagi stylus. Back in the day, Dagi's tip presented by a spoked black disk screeched too much and too loud, so Dagi offers several improved, totally transparent versions now:

 FuYu again here too, YuFu! Dagi will sue you, FuYu.

Brush tip's prototype in the centre of FuYu photo could turn into more or less good imitation of Nomad brush of 2+ years ago:


So moving on, and maybe YuFu Pro can do better than infamous Dell Venue 8 Pro stylus:



Of course, claims of sensitivity up to 4048 levels (transmitted over Bluetooth 4.0?) that even Wacom can't support on their below $160 styli should be checked against real-world performance.

UPDATE:

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YuFu and HEX3 is a scam. Jon Atherton (@tunes on Twitter) will collect your money and not fulfil. Please remove this review so others do not fall victim to the modern day version of a highway robber!

Again, once a customer doesn't need so precisely graded response, there are plenty of cheaper variants. Sure, they are not of knurled aluminum, but it's OK for a frugal scribbler:



However, professional tools need to be knurled:

These are my two German 2mm Staedtlers (one with silverpoint), one Italian Koh-I-Noor that can work with Sony's Xperia Z Ultra just fine, maybe sive/ohne/без/without pressure sensitivity for now. With a different, Teflon coated tip these could also work with NVIDIA's Note (and Note K1). These are not cheap (about $27 a piece, when new, $38 for a silverpoint pencil), but they are totally professional, believe me. (On my photo, white nameless double-ended stylus is an ordinary Chinese fare for $3-$4 available at any flea market.)

YuFu or FuYu, Adonit Jot Touch holds its ground still:


Talking about knurled styli, I own one, incidentally. It's an extra fine high carbon steel needle in a precision holder made by Adams Retouching Machine Co. :

These are made to retouch silver and steel plates normally used for money bill design. Or counterfeiting. So, it's a serious stuff, and in phone world it could be applicable only sapphire glass clad Vertu T11  offered for close to $12,000. Or imaginary sapphire glass clad Ubuntu Edge presumably to be made substantially cheaper.

With no sapphire glass things can get pretty hairy, as you can see on my photo. Replacement for my SGSII "Gorillacrap" screen is about $117 still and about ready to be cracked again.

However, both these phones house mediocre hardware unable to scan their touch screen 5-10 times faster to get to the needle-point precision levels.

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