Wacom’s Pen And Touch: A Multi-Touch Tablet

November 3, 2009
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Multi-Touch Tablet

Wacom has finally released its best entry-level pen tablet to date—the Pen and Touch. This new Pen and Touch from the undisputed king of tablets has multi-touch functions but with basic features like digital drawing and photo editing.

If you’re expecting for the touch-wheel and four-touch buttons found in previous generation Bamboo, I am afraid you cannot find it in the new Pen and Touch as they have been replaced by four buttons on the side (the tablet can be flipped to left- or right-handed orientation). The four buttons’ functions depend on how you assign them in the driver software.

But what’s absolutely thrilling about this new tablet (and this is also the main reason why I consider it the best tablet from Wacom) is that it feels more like a paper than an actual LCD display screen. The surface is smoother, and writing on it feels like a tip of a pen scratching on a piece of paper.

The multi-touch feature of this pen tablet is just like the MacBook, although not as successfully. You can scroll with two fingers, pinch to zoom and twist to rotate, but you can’t use more than two of your fingers.

When you buy this $100-worth pen tablet, you will get an integrated USB cable and a pen with a rocker-switch on the side so that it will not deform or tire your finger while you’re holding it. The pen’s “eraser” end is now a flat-ended cylinder instead of the previous rounded bump found in old models.

This latest Pen and Touch at only hundred bucks sure is a bargain. You can also buy the touch-only and pen-only models for $70 each or the Bamboo Fun for $200.

Multi-Touch Tablet

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