Adonit Ink uses Microsoft Pen Protocol to connect to your device, not Bluetooth. The first time I went to use it with my Surface 3, once powered up it automatically connected and showed up as a ...

To that end, Microsoft designed the new Surface Pro 3 Pen with real, ink-based pens in mind. It has the same weight and thickness of a normal ballpoint pen, so that it feels more natural in your hand.

Note that in my testing the Surface Pen wasn’t quite as smooth to write with on the Kobo Sage glass screen as Kobo’s own Stylus was. Depending on how much pressure you apply, you can create ...

Microsoft's Surface Pro 3 comes with a great pen. With little parallax and latency, it is easily one of the best styli for note-takers and digital artists.

Microsoft’s patent for an ‘active stylus motion vector’ (Image Credit: USPTO) Better scribbling through prediction. You don’t really need to know all the ins-and-outs, mind: the central ...

New Stylus. The Surface Slim Pen is Microsoft's latest and greatest in stylus technology, rocking wireless charging, ... Surface Pro 12-inch review: Better than expected, ...

Perceptive Pixel’s stylus-based display, now part of Microsoft. The concept of the stylus as an input for computing has been around for a long time, with people dragging items around the screen ...

Microsoft Surface Pro (2017) review: ... The Surface Pen stylus is no longer included by default, and new keyboard covers are more expensive than ever. Still not great for lap use.

Handily, Microsoft sent us a Surface Slim Pen 2 stylus for review along with the Surface Laptop Studio running Windows 11, so I’m well-equipped to tell you how well it works.

The best stylus pens ZDNET has tested from Apple, Adonit, and others feature tech like palm reduction, tilt sensing, and shading to make your devices easier to work on.

Editors' note: The review of Microsoft's Surface Pro 4, originally published in October 2015 and updated since, follows. Fall '16 update. After years of development and millions of advertising ...