Remember when Wacom launched the oddly-named Movink drawing tablet last year? It was immediately compared to the iPad Pro because of its incredibly thin profile, but it was apples to oranges, pardon the pun. The Movink, after all, was more like a slimmed-down Cintiq, requiring a computer or phone to actually display anything. It’s a familiar setup for many digital artists, but one that admittedly limits its portability to some extent.
Enter the Wacom MovinkPad 11, a standalone solution that lets you take your sketches and drawings with you anywhere. Being an Android tablet, it’s a more direct competitor to a Pencil-enabled iPad, but there seem to be a lot of caveats that would leave even Wacom fans thinking twice before investing in such a creative tool.
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This isn’t Wacom’s first attempt at a standalone drawing tablet, but the Wacom MobileStudio Pro is a heavy Windows 10 tablet PC that is also quite outdated by today’s standards. Not that the specs for the MovinkPad 11 are anything to write home about, but it’s at least easier to carry around anywhere and use, especially with its 11-inch display and 7mm profile. Of course, you don’t need to bring any other device with you either, allowing you to move and work anywhere with ease.
The MovinkPad 11 runs on a Mediatek Helio G99, a rather mid-range gaming-centric processor that was launched way back in 2022. It does have 8GB of RAM to make up for that, but the non-expandable 128GB of storage is a bit bewildering, given how large art files can get. There’s a 5MP front camera and a 4.7MP rear camera, which are hardly good for taking reference photos. It also runs Android 14, which is two generations behind the latest version.
Of course, the real selling point of the device is Wacom’s technology, represented by an 11-inch 2200×1440 screen and Wacom Pro Pen 3 with 8,192 levels of pressure. It’s an IPS LCD screen, though, not the OLED panel of the first Movink, but it’s going to be good enough for most users.
Aside from the somewhat mediocre hardware, however, the MovinkPad 11’s usefulness will be limited by the apps available on Android, which, as of now, misses the popular Procreate on iPads. The $449 price tag is also a bit higher than the cheapest A16 iPad that has support for the Apple Pencil. More importantly, Wacom isn’t alone in this space and has to compete with rivals Huion and XP-PEN, not to mention the premium Samsung Galaxy Tab S tablets that are indeed more expensive but also offer more features, more recent software, and guaranteed support for years to come.
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