To do this, HP has produced an 8 inch tablet for the concept called the HP Pro Slate 8, though there is a 12 inch version available with the apt name “HP Pro Slate 12” just in case you need something bigger. HP’s take, however, is different, bringing pen, paper, and a tablet to the table in a neat little folio, with the technologies working to make handwritten notes digital. Microsoft and Lenovo have both also managed to get in there, bringing stylus-based concepts to screens and asking you to write on the screen, with Windows computers taking your scribbled and turning it into something it can work with. We’ve seen a few different solutions over the years, from Livescribe’s digital reincarnation of the pen that read carbon indents on special dot paper, to Samsung’s take whereby you could replace the pad with a phone and the pen with its own S-Pen, a smartphone and stylus combination that offered digital notes to go.īut both solutions bring in some degree of compromise, between the necessary dot paper of the Livescribe to the fact that no matter how you fancy it up, writing on a screen just isn’t like writing on paper, an issue that affects Samsung’s Galaxy Note phones, tablets, and pretty much anyone using a stylus on a digital device.

Yes, the pen is still important, and while a screen can make it possible to synchronise our documents with ease in the cloud, making them available to all sorts of devices, it seems there’s nothing quite like the frantically scribbled scrawlings of someone taking notes or drawing.

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