The USB-C Apple Pencil is probably the most inexpensive but with an odd mishmash of options

As a part of Apple’s quest to ditch Lightning in favor of USB-C the corporate has now introduced an up to date Apple Pencil. However reasonably than simply change the Lightning connector with a USB-C one, Apple’s gone a special route. There is a USB-C port, reasonably than a connector, and the brand new stylus is an odd mishmash of Apple Pencil and Apple Pencil 2 options.

There are nonetheless loads of Apple Pencil alternatives available after all, however for a lot of iPad house owners it is Apple or nothing. And for these folks, the Apple Pencil now comes with a brand new solution to cost and a few new options – together with some that are not out there to house owners of the unique Apple Pencil.

Options right here, options there

Apple introduced the brand new Apple Pencil (USB-C) by way of a press release, including it to the lineup reasonably than changing both of the present stylus choices. And whereas the USB-C port is maybe the obvious function, with a sliding cap revealing the receptacle needed to charge in addition to pair the stylus with an iPad.

“Apple Pencil has revolutionized be aware taking, sketching, and illustrating, unleashing countless potentialities for productiveness and creativity,” Bob Borchers, Apple’s vp of Worldwide Product Advertising and marketing mentioned by way of the press launch. “Mixed with the flexibility of iPad, the brand new Apple Pencil unlocks one other nice choice to expertise the magic of digital handwriting, annotation, marking up paperwork, and extra.”

It does that with assist for superior options like Apple’s hover function on appropriate iPad Professional fashions. Different options borrowed kind the Apple Pencil 2 embody a magnetic attachment to appropriate iPads, however there are some options lacking. Regardless of having a flat edge for that magnetic connection, the brand new Apple Pencil will not cost wirelessly. Neither does it assist any double-taps for altering instruments in apps that assist it. There’s additionally no signal of stress sensitivity – a function that was even out there on the first-gen Apple Pencil.

The result’s a brand new product that borrows from these round it however in stress sensitivity lacks a function the oldest Apple Pencil of all manages to assist.

There is a silver lining, nevertheless. This new Apple Pencil is the most affordable but, promoting for simply $79 when it goes on sale subsequent month. Will there be new iPads to go together with the brand new Apple Pencil? Some rumours declare so, with new iPad mini and iPad Air releases tipped for this week.