The Universal Stylus Initiative (USI) is a specification for digital pens that can be used to write and draw on on touch-enabled PCs, tablets, and Chromebooks with active digitizers. Now the organization behind the standard has introduced USI 2.0 which brings support for new optional features including NFC wireless charging and in-cell display panels. NFC […]
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MSI Summit E16 Flip is a thin and light business convertible with NVIDIA graphics
The new MSI Summit E16 Flip is a convertible laptop with a 16 inch QHD+ touchscreen display, a 360-degree hinge, support for an active pen, and support for up to an Intel Core i7 Tiger Lake processor and optional NVIDIA GeForce RTX series graphics. But MSI says all that horsepower is packed into a compact design: […]
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LG V60 ThinQ 5G supports active pen input
LG’s latest flagship phone sports a Snapdragon 865 processor, 8GB of RAM, an in-display fingerprint sensor, a 5,000 mAh battery, 32-bit Hi-Fi quad-DAC, four mics, two speakers, and a 6.7 inch screen… as well as an optional LG Dual Screen accessory that turns the LG V60 ThinQ 5G into a dual-screen smartphone. We learned all […]
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One Mix 3 Yoga mini laptop/tablet+ digital pen (video)
The One Mix 3 Yoga is a tiny laptop with a an 8.4 inch touchscreen display, an Intel Core m3-8100Y processor, and a backlit keyboard. But it’s also a small tablet, thanks to a 360-degree hinge. And thanks to support for digital pens, you can also use it for taking handwritten notes or drawing pictures. […]
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Lenovo unveils Yoga Book C930 with color & E Ink displays
Lenovo is updating its Yoga Book line of dual-display laptops with a new model sporting premium specs. The new Yoga Book C930 features a 10.8 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel LCD IPS touchscreen display plus a 10.8 inch 1920 x 1080 pixel touchscreen E Ink display where you’d find a keyboard on most laptops. You […]
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2 Comments on Microsoft’s new Surface Pen is better, faster… and sold separately from the Surface Pro tablet
Microsoft’s new Surface Pen is better, faster… and sold separately from the Surface Pro tablet
2 Comments on Microsoft’s new Surface Pen is better, faster… and sold separately from the Surface Pro tabletMicrosoft’s new Surface Pro tablet may be a modest upgrade over the previous model, but one component has received a major update: the Surface Pen. The new Surface Pen is more sensitive, introduces tilt detection for shading, and offers what Microsoft says is a more paper-like writing experience with virtually no lag. There’s just one catch: […]
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Toshiba’s new dynaPad is a 12 inch 2-in-1 tablet with a Wacom pen
Toshiba’s 12.5 inch convertible Satellite Radius 12Â isn’t the company’s only new 2-in-1 Windows PC. The company also introduced a new dynaPad tablet in Japan. The tablet has a 12 inch display and a detachable keyboard dock. But it’s stand-out feature is probably its support for pen input. The Toshiba dynaPad comes with a Wacom Active […]
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HP launches Envy Note 8 Cherry Trail, Full HD tablet for $329
About a year after launching an 8 inch Windows tablet with an exceptionally low starting price of $150, HP is back with a new model that costs more than twice as much. But that’s because the new HP Envy Note 8 is in a completely different class than last year’s entry-level Stream 8 tablet. The […]
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Cube i7 Stylus tablet features Core M CPU, Wacom digitizer
Chinese tablet maker Cube is getting ready to launch a new version of the Cube i7 tablet which launched earlier this year. CNgadget reports the new Cube i7 Stylus is a 10.6 inch Windows tablet with an Intel Core M Broadwell processor and a Wacom digitizer with support for a pressure-sensitive digital pen. It should […]
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Microsoft buys digital pen tech from N-trig, maker of the Surface Pen
There are (at least) two things that set Microsoft’s Surface tablets apart from Apple’s iPads and most Android tablets. First, they run Windows. Second, they can work with an optional Surface Pen which lets you write, draw, or hover over icons, text, or other items as if you were using a mouse. Microsoft designs its […]