- Apple Pencil gets USB-C charging support.
- It is compatible with all iPads with USB-C.
- Apple Pencil USB-C brings a hover input feature.
Apple Pencil is the latest Apple product to be updated with a USB-C port. The brand has just launched the Apple Pencil with USB-C in India via its website. Besides the USB-C charging support, the stylus is capable of magnetically attaching to an iPad for storage, pixel-perfect precision, low latency, and hover interaction with a select model. Speaking of which, let’s check out which iPads this Apple Pencil USB-C is compatible with and other details.
Apple Pencil price in India, specifications
- The updated Apple Pencil price is Rs 7,900 and the product will be available starting early November on the company’s India website.
- Compatible iPads: It works with all iPad models with a USB-C port like the iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation), iPad Air (4th and 5th generation), iPad 10th generation, and iPad mini 6th generation.
- Weight and dimensions: It weighs around 20.5 grams. It is 155 mm in length and 7.5mm in width.
- Connectivity: It sports Bluetooth connectivity and can also be paired with the iPad using a built-in USB-C socket.
- Charging: You just have to slide the cap of the Pencil and the USB-C port will appear. Plug in a USB-C cable and refill it. Rest when it’s magnetically attached to a compatible iPad, it goes to sleep and saves battery life.
- Input features: Apple advertises the Apple Pencil USB-C model comes with good precision, low latency to make the stylus feel like using an actual pencil on paper, tilting for shading and other effects, and hover functionality with M2-powered iPad Pro for previewing a mark before you actually jot it.
Apple says the Pencil will be “ideal for note taking, sketching, annotating, journaling, and more”.
Meanwhile, this year we haven’t seen any iPad launch. Although there was a rumour that Apple could launch the new iPad Air, iPad mini, and iPad 11th gen this month, we believed it was unlikely. Mark Gurman of Bloomberg had said it won’t happen this month while Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said it is not happening this year.
