Adonit Neo Pro Stylus Mimics Apple Pencil Features for $44.99

[AppliedMicro]

Stylus-maker Adonit has introduced the Neo Pro, the first iPad stylus that can be magnetically stored and wirelessly charged on the side of an iPad, just like the second-generation Apple Pencil.

Few existing third-party styluses are able to be magnetically attached to the side of an iPad, and the Adonit Neo Pro appears to be the first to also wirelessly charge on the side of an iPad like the Apple Pencil.

Certainly not the „first“.

Received my GOOJODOQ GD13 weeks ago, which currently sells for less than 20$ on the well-known Chinese online marketplace. Admittedly not as renowned a brand as Adonit though, and the Adonit looks a bit more premium. I‘d also bet it‘ll feel more premium, from the pics and my previous experience with Adonit products (though I‘m definitely not complaining about my stylus).

 

[neuropsychguy]

Is it possible to turn off the pressure sensitivity on the apple pencil?

Yes, within some apps: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-sketch-discussions/how-to-disable-pressure-of-apple-pencil/td-p/9254220#:~:text=Here's how to get to,that opens toggle Pressure off.

How to Turn Off Pressure Sensitivity in Procreate

Pressure sensitivity in Procreate is awesome. It lets you draw a line of different thicknesses just by pushing harder or softer on your Apple Pencil. But, what if you don’t want this to happen? How

adventureswithart.com

 

[Haiku_Oezu]

Why would you go for tilt but not pressure support??
What kind of application benefits from tilt sensitivity alone?

 

[woolypants]

If you're prepared to wait for something to come from China, you can get the same thing for a fraction of the cost:

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[oneMadRssn]

This goes for AirPods as well… everyone knows that pairing bluetooth buds with the iPhone is a miserable experience compared to AirPods. If Apple doesn't want to sell the H1 chips to competitors, they should at least be opening up the protocols.

Blame goes to Bluetooth SIG for that one. They have the power to improve the pairing process, they can easily adopt and require a friendlier pairing process like the one Apple and Google have created. But they don't, despite releasing new bluetooth specs nearly every other year.

 

[antiprotest]

The price is right, but a lack of pressure sensitivity makes it pretty useless for creating art. It makes me wonder who the target demographic is 🤔

Students and office professionals who take notes and sign things. At this price, much more reasonable choice for them than Apple Pencil. I might have gotten this instead if I didn't already have the Apple Pencil.

 

[antiprotest]

I was interested as i’m an artist , and do digital art as well but I think the Apple Pencil suits my need already and this seems an inferior choice

If you already have the Apple Pencil you obviously do not need this one.

 

[DoubleFlyaway]

I might buy one. I just lost my third Apple Pencil, and I only use them for doodles and diagrams once every month or two… I can't keep shelling out $125/each for these ridiculous things…

Yeah. I have gone through a lot of apple pencils (loss, puppy, dropping and stepping on them). I use them all day every day for drawing logic diagrams on a whiteboard for my online students. Right now I’m set with two in my house and one in my purse, but these are a real business necessity for me, and these sound like they would work fine.

 

[shagless]

Okay, the pencil looks like a good cheap option/backup, but what I really need to know is where can I send my wife to find that iPad case?

 

[erikkfi]

I'm sticking with my first-gen Pencil because I love the timeless Jony Ive design of a giant Apple Pencil sticking out of my iPad's lightning port to charge.

 

[thefourthpope]

The stylus features a replaceable spiral tip, a click-to-turn-on button on the top, and up to nine hours of battery life.

Ooh I may replace my Apple Pencil 2 just for the sheer fidgety love of a click-pen!

 

[Moonlight]

Why doesn't Apple Pencil have hover, or a button? A button would help make up for no hover. Even cheap drawing tablets for Macs have hover.

Tablets have hovering because they are manipulating a cursor on screen and the tablet is on the desk. The iPad doesn't have a pointer really, and your pen is "hovering" above the actual screen. So, the pen doesn't have hovering on screen, but your physical hand with the pen in it does the same thing above the screen.

 

[Shanghaichica]

I have and still have an Adonit pixel stylus that I used with my old iPad Air 2. To be honest it was pretty rubbish especially compared to even the 1st gen Apple Pencil that I had with my iPad Pro 10.5. Just checked my Amazon order history, it cost £70 so not much cheaper than the Apple Pencil but it really wasn’t worth £70.

 

[lostPod]

Yes, within some apps: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-sketch-discussions/how-to-disable-pressure-of-apple-pencil/td-p/9254220#:~:text=Here's how to get to,that opens toggle Pressure off.

How to Turn Off Pressure Sensitivity in Procreate

Pressure sensitivity in Procreate is awesome. It lets you draw a line of different thicknesses just by pushing harder or softer on your Apple Pencil. But, what if you don’t want this to happen? How

adventureswithart.com

Thanks for the reply!

 

[seek3r]

Can they do the opposite now and sell an external charger I can use with the Apple Pencil 2? That's been a pain point I'd love to see fixed...

 

[SoldOnApple]

Tablets have hovering because they are manipulating a cursor on screen and the tablet is on the desk. The iPad doesn't have a pointer really, and your pen is "hovering" above the actual screen. So, the pen doesn't have hovering on screen, but your physical hand with the pen in it does the same thing above the screen.

But even the unpowered Galaxy S Pen has hover and it has the hovering of my physical hand with the pen. I think hover helps me start my strokes better, helps make up for strangeness of drawing on a glass screen with a slightly rubberised surface. Using the Apple Pencil requires specific techiniques to use confidently, compared to a lot of other pens and drawing solutions which let you draw however you are already drawing. Constantly cleaning the screen too because fingerprints interrupt your pen strokes is not something you need to do on a cheap plastic graphic tablet.

 

[Eric_WVGG]

Antitrust? 🤣

What market is it that you're referring to?

Apple has a monopoly on iOS devices, which they can leverage on the accessory market. Was that not clear? 🤣

 

[Jim82]

The price is right, but a lack of pressure sensitivity makes it pretty useless for creating art. It makes me wonder who the target demographic is 🤔

Probably everyone that wants the pencil but is not a creating art? 🤔

 

[JLD94]

Likely people like me, who just want to be able to take notes, sketch ideas, and annotate PDFs.

If I didn’t already have an Apple Pencil, I’d grab one of these for sure.

Yes, same here if I didn't already have one however I will be getting one for the wife's new mini

 

[JLD94]

So could this fit into the built in slot on some cases for the pencil?

 

[TVreporter]

Looks like a good idea for kids to use rather than the more pricey Apple Pencil. Might give this a try or at least wait for a few reviews to come out.

 

[Veinticinco]

Looks like a good idea for kids to use rather than the more pricey Apple Pencil. Might give this a try or at least wait for a few reviews to come out.

Exactly what I’ll be looking at when my son gets his first basic/education iPad for school in September.

 

[boak]

Apple has a monopoly on iOS devices

This does not make sense. It's like saying Mondelez has a monopoly on OREO cookies.

 

[Eric_WVGG]

Like I said, it's fuzzy (okay, I said fishy, that was an accident). Software platforms didn't exist when they were writing copyright law. Conceptually, the fact is that Apple has advantages over third-parties in the ecosystem. I think those advantages are sometimes unfair, and some concepts of copyright law should be extended to cover them.

(I say this as a person who thinks most forms of copyright should be abolished, incidentally.)

 

[boak]

Not everything proprietary is "anti-competitive" 💀