Wacom says its first OLED drawing tablet is cool and skinny

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Wacom has thrown a tablet-shaped curveball astatine integer creatives waiting connected Apple’s highly anticipated OLED iPads. The institution introduced the Wacom Movink 13 connected Wednesday, its ain OLED-based offering that targets creatives successful request of a highly portable show drafting tablet.

Available present for $750 via the Wacom web store, the Movink features a afloat HD 13.3-inch Samsung OLED show that gives it respective advantages implicit comparably midrange LED-based tablets. The astir notable is the deficiency of a backlight — not lone does that forestall light leakage and excess heat, according to Wacom (the second being a acquainted nuisance for show tablet users), but it besides allows the tablet to beryllium much compact.

Wacom says the Movink is the “thinnest and lightest” pen show tablet it has ever made, weighing 420 grams (14.8 ounces) with thickness ranging betwixt 4–6.6mm. By comparison, Wacom says it’s 66 percent thinner and 55 percent lighter than the comparably sized Wacom One 13 touch. That besides makes it lighter than the 682-gram (24-ounce) existent 12.9-inch iPad Pro model portion sharing a akin thickness.

Image: Wacom Yup, that’s beauteous skinny — a positive for anyone who needs a drafting tablet they tin easy flip into a bag.

It isn’t blighted by those messy three-in-one cables, either — the Wacom Movink 13 uses a azygous USB-C to USB-C cablegram for some powerfulness and connectivity. The tablet supports Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, and Android, and a 2nd USB-C larboard is besides disposable for further powerfulness if the connected instrumentality doesn’t person capable juice.

Image: Wacom Some devices whitethorn not person capable powerfulness output for the Wacom Movink 13, requiring you to usage a secondary USB-C cablegram for other juice.

Users tin besides expect a wider colour spectrum and deeper blacks, with a opposition ratio of 100,000:1, a 100 times higher than what’s featured connected the precocious released Wacom Cintiq Pro 17. The Wacom Movink is validated for Pantone and Pantone SkinTone and provides 100 percent DCI-P3 and 95 percent Adobe RGB coverage, according to Wacom. The faster effect clip for OLED besides lowers pen latency beneath 1 millisecond.

Speaking of pens, the Movink comes with a dedicated mentation of Wacom’s Pro Pen 3 stylus that features a slimmer, much disposable nib. This mentation is exclusive to the Movink 13, but Wacom says the tablet besides supports “multiple pen technologies,” allowing it to enactment with Wacom’s Pro Pen 2 oregon third-party offerings from Dr. Grip Digital, Lamy, oregon Staedtler.

That’s it for the escaped accessories, though — users who similar to enactment astatine an space volition request to acquisition a abstracted (and arsenic skinny) $80 foldable stand. There are besides lone 2 customizable buttons built into the tablet, 1 connected either side, that tin beryllium utilized for things similar toggling interaction functions connected oregon off. If you request more, past you’ll request to either acquisition Wacom’s abstracted $99 ExpressKey Remote oregon make some on-screen shortcuts.

Image: Wacom Touch controls are besides supported for erstwhile you don’t privation to usage the pen and tin beryllium toggled connected oregon disconnected arsenic required.

Given Wacom is the archetypal drafting tablet shaper to supply an OLED-based offering, the closest rival for the Movink 13 volition apt beryllium Apple’s long-anticipated OLED iPad Pro, which is expected to beryllium unveiled connected May 7th. The astir notable quality betwixt the products is that Wacom’s tablet needs to beryllium connected to an outer device, but astatine $750 (which is amazingly inexpensive for Wacom), it whitethorn beryllium importantly much affordable than Apple’s all-in-one offering.

Unless users are tied to utilizing desktop originative software, the lone happening that would marque it much hard to take betwixt them would beryllium if Apple announced a autochthonal mode to usage the iPad arsenic a drafting tablet connected Mac. A miss tin lone dream.