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Wacom has announced the MovinkPad 11, an all-in-one Android-powered tablet for integer illustrators who privation to gully connected the go. Unlike different show drafting tablets successful Wacom’s lineup, the $449 MovinkPad doesn’t request to beryllium connected to a laptop oregon PC, placing it successful nonstop contention with the Apple Pencil and iPad combo that’s proved incredibly fashionable with integer artists.
Unlike Apple’s iPad lineup, however, the 11.45-inch MovinkPad prioritizes integer drafting capabilities implicit emblematic activities you would usage a tablet for. The MovinkPad features a 2200 x 1440p solution show with touchscreen enactment and anti-glare etched solid to trim reflections and fingerprints. While the Movink drafting tablet that Wacom launched past twelvemonth features an OLED display, the MovinkPad uses an IPS screen. The show has a colour show of 16.7 cardinal colors and a 99 percent sRGB colour gamut sum ratio.
At 10.5 x 7.2 x 0.3 inches, it’s somewhat larger than the 11-inch iPad Air and weighs 1.3 pounds (588 grams) compared to Apple’s one-pound (460 grams) offering. The remainder of the MovinkPad features would beryllium reasonably forgettable connected a regular tablet: it runs connected Android 14, features a 5 megapixel beforehand camera, a 4.7 megapixel rear camera, dual microphones, stereo speakers, and enactment for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.2 It besides includes a USB-C larboard for charging and 7700mAh lithium-ion battery, but Wacom doesn’t notation what artillery beingness you tin expect from a azygous charge.
Under the hood, the MovinkPad 11 is powered by a MediaTek Helio G99 processor, the aforesaid mid-ranged spot utilized successful the Lenovo Tab Plus that launched past year. The MovinkPad lone comes with 8GB of representation and 128GB of storage, which can’t beryllium expanded. That regulation isn’t perfect for a tablet that users volition privation to prevention a batch of representation files without relying connected unreality storage.
The MovinkPad supports the aforesaid 8,192 unit levels and 60-degree pen tilt angles arsenic Wacom’s main drafting show tablet lineup. It comes with the customizable Wacom Pro Pen 3, which includes a nib holder and customizable broadside switches, and supports a scope of third-party integer pens from brands specified arsenic Dr. Grip, Lamy, and Staedtler.
That Android 14 enactment means that the MovinkPad tin enactment a scope of fashionable integer illustration apps that are disposable connected the Google Play store, including Clip Studio Paint, Ibis Paint, and Krita, and comes with the Wacom Canvas sketching app pre-installed. iPads inactive person an borderline present due to the fact that Procreate — often ranked arsenic the apical originative app connected Apple’s App Store — is an iOS exclusive for now, though Procreate developer James Cuda has mused connected plans to bring it to different platforms eventually.
The MovinkPad 11 is simply a acold outcry from Wacom’s erstwhile attempts to motorboat an all-in-one drafting tablet: the MobileStudio Pro bid came with built-in PC hardware, which made it excessively dense to lug astir easy and outgo up to $3,500, which besides made it excessively costly for hobbyist illustrators to consider.
At $449, the MovinkPad undercuts Wacom’s MobileStudio Pro line, but the cheapest A16 spot iPad ($349) is inactive a much affordable choice, adjacent with the further request to acquisition a first-gen Apple Pencil ($99). Still, the Wacom Pro Pen 3 enactment and different illustration-focused goodies whitethorn springiness Wacom the accidental to poach customers who were looking astatine Apple’s much costly iPad models.
