Wacom - Bamboo Slate Smartpad A5, Small - Medium gray with orange accent
Model: CDS610S
SKU: 5631801
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Customers love the Bamboo Slate Smartpad A5, Small for its ease of use. Many users find the product wonderful and easy to use. However, some customers have expressed dissatisfaction with the pen, describing it as not great.
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I'll admit, this is a little bit of a niche product, since many people like to write on their tablets or phones or other interfaces now. But, there's still no comparing to writing on pen and paper, as far as feel, precision, and memory go. This product is great for people who sketch or take notes frequently and want to capture those things digitally. It is great for an initial design step, since you can capture the layers of an image as you draw them and then do the rest of the work on your computer. The images sync to InkSpace app, which is just ok right now but does the main things well. You can have it convert your handwriting to text and it does this very well for both print and cursive. It will also convert your work to many exportable formats, like pdf or graphics, and can then send directly to just about any app. I export pdfs to Evernote for business meetings, for example, or email images to people when needed. On the plus side, you can use any paper you want. Just no more than 80 sheets on the pad at a time. The major negative is that you must use the pen it came with, which is rollerball. You can buy refills from AutoPoint (the source of the Wacom refills), but they need to be D1 type and must have a copper or brass-colored tube. All in all, this is a nice tool as a casual sketch pad for a kid whose parents want to keep their art, or for a professional who uses handwritten notes and wants to store these. And yes, it is more precise than a Galaxy pen, active stylus, or Apple pencil - at least for now!
Posted by Clara
Works great. Easy way to have notes/drawings stored digitally. The only bad part about this product is Inkspace. Digital pages can't be combined or merged, have to be exported individually. There's also no pressure sensitivity.... which is one of the reasons I purchased this to begin with. Works great with any paper otherwise - just wish there was an option for a pen that I actually liked. Aside from that, was definitely worth it for the 50$ I got it for.
Posted by Ryan
This is actually a great item for note taking. I personally don’t like it as a drawing tool, the pen is not that great and a pen drawing tends to be very forgiving as an obvious sketch, once its downloaded to digital it just looks messy.
Posted by Roamingcub