Wacom says its first OLED drawing tablet is cool and skinny

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

Available now for $750 via nan Wacom web store, nan Movink features a afloat HD 13.3-inch Samsung OLED show that gives it respective advantages complete comparably midrange LED-based tablets. The astir notable is nan deficiency of a backlight — not only 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 nan tablet to beryllium much compact.

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

It isn’t blighted by those messy three-in-one cables, either — nan 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 nan connected instrumentality doesn’t person capable juice.

Users tin besides expect a wider colour spectrum and deeper blacks, pinch a opposition ratio of 100,000:1, a 100 times higher than what’s featured connected nan 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 consequence clip for OLED besides lowers pen latency beneath 1 millisecond.

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

That’s it for nan free accessories, though — users who for illustration to activity astatine an perspective will request to acquisition a abstracted (and arsenic skinny) $80 foldable stand. There are besides only 2 customizable buttons built into nan tablet, 1 connected either side, that tin beryllium utilized for things for illustration toggling touch functions connected aliases off. If you request more, past you’ll request to either acquisition Wacom’s abstracted $99 ExpressKey Remote aliases create some on-screen shortcuts.

Given Wacom is nan first drafting tablet shaper to supply an OLED-based offering, nan closest competitor for nan Movink 13 will apt beryllium Apple’s long-anticipated OLED iPad Pro, which is expected to beryllium unveiled connected May 7th. The astir notable quality betwixt nan 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 imaginative software, nan only point that would make it much difficult to take betwixt them would beryllium if Apple announced a autochthonal measurement to usage nan iPad arsenic a drafting tablet connected Mac. A woman tin only dream.