Today, as found by redditor crakb and reported by Chrome Unboxed, we’ve got our first concrete details of Lenovo’s USI stylus including full images, as it’s now been listed with the FCC under the name “Lenovo USI Pen. Buy USI Pen, USI Stylus Pen for Chromebook, Compatible with Lenovo Chromebook Duet, HP Chromebook X360 12b 14b, ASUS Chromebook C436, Palm Rejection with. When the IdeaPad Duet launched, Lenovo confirmed to us that they had plans to launch their own USI stylus, but couldn’t yet share any of the specifics. For example, our own Ben Schoon took some time to demonstrate the USI experience on Chrome OS by connecting an HP stylus to the Lenovo IdeaPad Duet, which is USI compatible.
The aim of the Universal Stylus Initiative is to make it so that if you invest in a stylus of similar quality to the Apple Pencil or Pixelbook Pen, you’ll be able to use it on more than just one specific device. Lenovo’s upcoming “USI Pen,” built to complement their recent IdeaPad Duet tablet, has just been revealed in detail by the FCC. I hit the Google Play store and installed the Android version of Squid.Thanks to the recent Universal Stylus Initiative (USI), it’s slowly becoming possible for fine-tuned, pressure-sensitive styluses to be cross-compatible between devices. I then decided to try one of the arguably best inking solutions to test the Lenovo Duet 5 Chromebook stylus experience. Again: Usable but basically an average experience right now. What you can’t see is the ink flowing up to a half-inch behind the stylus as I was writing. It’s not terrible, but not ideal as I noted (no pun intended) when testing the Lenovo Duet 5 Chromebook stylus experience. More importantly, though, there is noticeable lag when writing on the Lenovo Duet 5 Chromebook. I couldn’t take advantage of any pressure sensitivity when writing, for example, in Google Cursive. The new version brings seamless tilt functionality, superior pairing experience & latency, refined grip materials, and an innovative Finer Tip technology for USI 2.0 that supports Chrome OS. However, it’s not ideal, at least not on the Lenovo Duet 5 Chromebook.įor one thing, it’s currently too simple of an app compared to existing digital ink solutions. Overview The Lenovo USI Pen 2 adds more functionality to the widely popular USI range of tablet styluses.
Frankly, I’m surprised that a web-based application even handles digital inking. The first test I did involved using the Google Cursive progressive web app that officially launched with the HP Chromebook x2 11 tablet.