Apple Pencil (2023) With USB Kind-C Port Launched at This Worth

Apple Pencil (2023) was launched by the corporate on Tuesday as an inexpensive various to the corporate’s second-generation Apple Pencil mannequin. The brand new stylus has a matte end and includes a flat edge that can be utilized to magnetically connect the pencil to the facet of the Tenth-generation iPad that was launched final yr, in addition to different iPad fashions with a USB Kind-C port, such because the iPad Professional, iPad Air, and the iPad mini. It doesn’t assist wi-fi charging and some superior options discovered on the dearer Apple Pencil (2nd technology).

Apple Pencil (2023) worth in India, availability

Apple Pencil (2023) worth in India is about at Rs. 7,990 and the corporate says that prospects will have the ability to buy the brand new mannequin in early November. College students should purchase the brand new Apple Pencil (2023) at Rs. 6,990.

The brand new Apple Pencil is cheaper than each the Apple Pencil (1st technology), which is priced at Rs. 9,500 in India, and the Apple Pencil (2nd technology) which prices Rs. 11,900.

A sliding mechanism reveals the USB Kind-C port for charging
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In the meantime, customers with an iPad (2022) — or one other mannequin with a USB Kind-C port — will not must buy a USB Kind-C to Apple Pencil adapter that’s required with the intention to use the first-generation Apple Pencil with iPad fashions that assist the trendy USB connector.

Apple Pencil (2023) specs, options

The newly launched Apple Pencil includes a USB Kind-C port that’s hidden behind a sliding mechanism situated on the high of the stylus. Whereas it does have a flat edge that can be utilized to magnetically join it to the facet of recent iPad fashions that even have flat sides, you can not cost it wirelessly just like the Apple Pencil (2nd technology) and you may nonetheless must pair the Apple Pencil utilizing a cable.

Not like the Apple Pencil (1st technology), the brand new stylus provides assist for the Apple Pencil hover mode that’s current on the dearer second-generation Apple Pencil, however not its predecessor. Nevertheless, the Apple Pencil (2023) doesn’t assist the stress sensitivity characteristic that’s obtainable on each the first- and second-generation Apple Pencil fashions.

The brand new Apple Pencil in contrast with the corporate’s different stylus fashions
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With its lower cost tag, the Apple Pencil (2023) misses out on a few of the performance obtainable on the second-generation Apple Pencil. This contains assist for stress sensitivity and the power to double faucet to alter instruments. Equally, you will not have the ability to get a free engraving on the Apple Pencil (2023), not like the Apple Pencil (2nd technology) mannequin.

The Apple Pencil (2023) is appropriate with the iPad Air (2020) and newer fashions, the iPad mini (2021), the 11-inch and 12-inch iPad Professional (2018) and newer fashions, and the iPad (2022). The stylus helps Bluetooth and wired connectivity over the included USB Kind-C port and measures 155×7.5mm and weighs 20.5g, in keeping with Apple.