Pilot Hi-Tec-C Coleto Multi Pen - Stylus Component

This does not work as a capacitive stylus for iPhone and other modern smart phones. It's for pressure-touch screens only. It would be nice if JetPens mentioned that in the description of this item.

Please disregard most of my review below. When I first got this item, it didn't work, the lead was stuck inside and didn't advance at all. After I took it apart and dislodged the lead (which was not a very easy thing to do), it worked OK, but the advancing mechanism is still clumsy. You have to push down pretty hard to get it to go, and often after I advance the lead, the whole mechanism jumps up to its retracted position and I have un-retract (de-retract?) it again. It's ok if you don't use pencils much and just need one once in a while, so you don't have to carry an extra writing instrument for nothing. If you use pencils a lot, I think this is going to be annoying.

It's cool, convenient...and crumbly. If you're wondering how cool it might be to have a tiny eraser as one of the cartridges in a multi-pen, well, it's cooler than I'd imagined. I've got it in a 2-cartridge body, and it has quickly become second nature to switch from one to the other.

The eraser itself isn't very good. It crumbles into stringy bits that hang off the eraser tip and clog the opening of the body. It performs much worse than the pen-style polymer eraser I got from Daiso. I was unable to completely erase some 2B writing from a Moleskine notebook, for example. With so much rubbing, it depletes pretty quickly.

This is evidently the price you pay for having an eraser cartridge. It isn't going to erase like a Tombo Mono Zero, but you don't have to reach for a separate eraser, or even flip the writing instrument over. I think it's worth it.

Absolutely love this. Works very well

I just got the Coleto 4-refill body with 3 ink refills and a pencil component. The inks are OK (the 0.3mm is kinda scratchy on the paper, but 0.4 and 0.5 are fine), but the pencil doesn't work at all! The lead doesn't advance when I push down, I have to open up the pen, take out the pencil component (which is a pain to do), manually push the point in to advance the lead, put it back in and then continue writing. If I were taking a test, I'd spend half my time advancing the lead. I don't even see how it's possible for the lead to advance, there's no ridge at the bottom of the pen to advance the lead. I'd give this a zero if it were possible, unless someone can explain how to work it.