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I can have my arm, wrist, and other hand on the screen, and the iPad Pro can distinguish the movement of the Pencil over the movement of anything else. I have been astounded by just how well this works.

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Because of a combination of Bluetooth and the fact that Apple designed the Pencil and the iPad Pro to work in conjunction with each other, the iPad Pro is able to accurately distinguish the difference between the Pencil tip and any touch input. Many apps have tried to build their own implementations of this, with varying success, but it has always been an issue as the majority of previous styluses are just trying to fool iOS that they are fingers. One of the many things that have prevented people from being able to ditch their favourite notebook for an iPad and stylus is palm rejection. I wish Apple would have considered this when designing the Pencil. Even Apple's own Marc Newson put a clip on his recent Mont Blanc pen which would stop this from happening. In all honesty, I'm not sure that putting weights in the Pencil is the right way to solve this issue. Each time as the Pencil turns, it acts against itself as it is moving to quickly to balance, and on it goes, off the table. When this happens the weights actually seem to give it momentum, and will propel it forward further and faster than it would have otherwise. In most instances this works out great, but I have observed that if you place the Pencil down with any force, say if it is not gently put down on a desk, but maybe dropped from a few inches (I love my implements, but I use them too.), the Pencil will likely roll a couple of times in the process. The weights appear to have been designed to balance it and take over. But with the weights inside the Pencil, as soon as you set it down, it rolls a little and then stops itself. The Pencil is completely cylindrical – there are no flat edges and no clip – so it's prone to fall victim to gravity and non-level work spaces. The second issue these weights attempt to solve is to stop your Pencil rolling off your desk.

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This magnetic attachment is by no means a way to safely transport the Pencil, but it gives you somewhere to quickly place it if you need both hands free to type, or you just want to put it down at the end of the day. I should note that there is nowhere else to store the Pencil-neither inside the device, or in any of Apple's cases. They are magnetic, so this gives you the ability to place your Pencil on the edge of the iPad (where the magnets are for the Smart Cover to attach), and have it hold in place. It feels great to hold it feels substantial.įrom what I can tell, the weights inside the Apple Pencil are there to solve two problems. On the podcast, Brad and I constantly talk about how important weight and balance is in our writing instruments, and this has clearly been considered here. The Pencil is heavier than I imagined it would be. It also warms to the touch after being used for a short period of time, which pleases me. This isn't the case for me I find the plastic material that the Pencil is made of to be comfortable, and I am able to grip it with my fingers easily.

Some of my friends that have used the Pencil said that they found it to be slippery to hold. It looks and feels a lot like a Pencil, and if the design came before the name, then 'Pencil' is the clear choice. The latter is a more elegant sounding name, and considering that there's no way to use the end of the Apple Pencil as an eraser - there's no extra button or sensor here, just the one at the tip - it felt like it fit more as a product name.Īs soon as I took this product out of its box I knew why. When Apple released the Pencil, I couldn't understand why they didn't choose to call it the 'Apple Pen'. Sure, I like to doodle and scribble as much as the next person, but all I wanted to know was if the Apple Pencil would give me the digital handwriting experience I had wanted for so long. You can find more of Myke's work at Relay FM and can follow him on Twitter all of the press shots and in all of the reviews, the focus of the Apple Pencil is on how amazing it is for artists to draw and create beautiful graphics, but this isn't what I was interested in when Apple announced the Pencil.

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