"Buy apple easy, buy Apple accessories is really not easy", I believe that many friends like me, save money, take advantage of the 618 to buy an iPad Pro determination is not difficult, but buy such expensive official accessories as Apple Pencil, often can not get off the hand - support magnetic charging of the latest second generation Apple Pencil (979) The official price is nearly a thousand yuan, almost one-third of the price of the cheapest iPad pro 11th generation (2399) in the applicable model.
Just as few people buy expensive official iPhone phone cases, many users will choose inexpensive third-party capacitive pens. As a well-known digital accessories manufacturer, South Carolina recently launched an upgraded version of the capacitive stylus, which costs only 199 yuan, less than a quarter of the second-generation Apple pencil. Could this product be an ideal alternative to the Apple pencil? Let's get a feel for the power of Pencil's products in Nanka.
When you open it, it is a simple pen, a replacement pen head.
The South Carolina Pencil is made of aviation aluminum material, the surface is matte, the hand is not slippery when holding, it feels very close to the real pen, and the weight of about 13g is lighter than the Apple Pencil.
This pen is the second generation of the South Carolina Pencil, the previous generation of products is with a charging compartment, the price is about 30 yuan cheaper.
Personally, I think that compared with the previous generation of products with their own charging compartments, the biggest highlight of this generation of South Card Pencil is the use of wireless charging solutions.
Why?
Mobile phones, tablets, notebooks, electric paper books, wireless headphones, charging treasures... Now that everyone has more and more digital devices on hand, how to use these devices more efficiently has become a science. Therefore, many people will lose the original accessories, choose a drag and drop data cable, and support multiple charging heads and charging treasures of the fast charging protocol.
After the wireless charging scheme is adopted, the South Card Pencil can lose the additional charging compartment, and the second generation of Apple Pencil is charged on the iPad Pro by magnetic suction, charged with the use of ordinary people, charging as if it does not exist.
Here's a hint. If you are using a protective case with a structure like mine, you must pay attention to the face of the magnetic charge when you put the pen, rather than stuffing it into the empty position, only when the charging lamp is aligned, it will light up, and the capacitive pen will automatically adsorb and be in the open state.
The use of the South Card Pencil is also very stupid, after adsorbing to the iPad, it will automatically boot, pick it up and use it, and no unnecessary settings are needed.
There are many third-party capacitive pen products on the market, and the price is basically concentrated in the range of 200 yuan. If it is just ordinary writing and drawing, it is difficult to distinguish between good and bad. In the case of the South Carolina Pencil, in actual use, there are two advantages that many competitors do not have.
The first is the anti-false touch function.
Personally, I think that products without this feature can be directly ignored. Why? As long as you write a stroke on the tablet, you know.
Normal people's writing habits, the little finger or the edge of the palm will touch the screen, if there is no anti-false touch function, it can only be like the ancients writing brush words to adopt the posture of hanging wrists, it is simply unbearable.
The second is the tilt sensing function.
When we write with a pen, brush, and paint, there will be a tilt of the pen tip and a change in thickness and thickness, and the function of tilt sensing is essential if the capacitive pen wants to create a real brush stroke. When using sketchbooks like sketchbooks to doodle, the presence of tilt sensing can make our drawings more precise and personalized.
The existence of the above two features makes the South Carolina Pencil suitable for more application scenarios, compared to ordinary products that can only be written in the air, or the general thickness of the lines pulled out, the experience is much better, and the result is that I use the stylus more frequently.
And the resulting nib wear problem, the manufacturer also considered for you. The South Carolina Pencil uses the same POM replaceable pen head as Apple, and does not wear out after 10,000 frictions.
Put it this way, if you are not a particularly high-frequency user, when the life cycle of the product is over, your pen may not need to be replaced.
Of course, the South Card Pencil can also be applied to the old iPad that does not support magnetic charging, but the advantages of wireless charging cannot be played, and it is necessary to purchase a charging cradle from the manufacturer, in addition, there is no such "no feeling" in the control, and it is necessary to start the machine by long pressing the top to light the indicator light, rather than adsorbing the automatic boot.
On the issue of battery life, the official nominal is to support 10 hours of uninterrupted writing and painting, in the actual use, due to the relationship between magnetic charging, coupled with 5 seconds of no action into the power saving mode, 5 minutes of no action into the sleep mode of the exquisite design, for me as a user, as long as the iPad has electricity, this pen has been in a "powered" state,
Although the South Card Pencil itself is plug-and-play and does not require an additional connection, if we connect to Bluetooth, we can see the power of the stylus in real time through the iPad.
Summary:
As a designer and painter, the stylus is a non-essential accessory, and if I want to have the urge to buy, the price cannot be too outrageous; Secondly, in the experience, there must be a place that is obviously superior to finger touch or ordinary capacitive pen; Third, daily use can not be too troublesome (need to carry additional cables or chargers).
The above three requirements, with magnetic charging, nib tilt sensing, anti-mishaul design of the South Card Pencil can be perfectly competent, Apple Pencil flat title, can be called deserved.