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    • Targus, Dagi or Pogo

    Posted on: January 4th, 2011 by

    Shogun Curtis

    Tar­gus is the Winner!

    If you’ve been fol­low­ing along, you know I’ve been check­ing out a num­ber of styli for use with the iPad. So have many oth­ers, includ­ing Hec­tor Gomez. RecentlyI’d set­tled on the Box Wave sty­lusbecause of the rub­ber or sil­i­con tip and how that makes lay­ing down Dig­i­tal Ink feel close to doing so on a Tablet PC with a Wacom dig­i­tizer. Hec­tor recently pointed out the Tar­gus iPad Sty­lus, which is avail­able at Best Buy (listed as back ordered cur­rently). I man­aged to find one on the shelf in a Best Buy store in Rich­mond this week­end and picked it up. The verdict?

    Fun­da­men­tally, the Tar­gus sty­lus presents the same feel as the Box Wave Sty­lus does. Your mileage my vary, but I see no fun­da­men­tal dif­fer­ence between the two out­side of the cos­metic design. In fact, I’d say it is the exact same with the excep­tion of color choices and the lit­tle tether that comes with the Box Wave. Well, that’s not true. The Tar­gus iPad Sty­lus can be had at Best Buy for $14.99. The Box Wave Sty­lus has been reduced in price from $24.95 to $20.95. So, if you don’t mind wait­ing until they are back in stock at Best Buy, you can save a few bucks.

    In the pic­ture, the Tar­gus Sty­lus is black and the Box Wave is blue.

    UPDATE: Check the com­ments to this post. GBM reader drnkusv reports that Grif­fin is also mar­ket­ing this same sty­lus at $19.99. I guess some­one is crank­ing them out and the usual roundup of com­pa­nies that mar­ket these acces­sories are slap­ping their brand on them along with their own pric­ing. I’m guess­ing that if Apple ever got over its stance that a sty­lus is the spawn of Satan, and tried to sell one of these the price would be $39.99.

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