The Bamboo Ink Plus comes with three replaceable nibs – firm, soft and blue – that can easily be switched out to best suit the user’s needs. This means that the nib is less likely to get damaged when you throw the pen in your bag on the go. The shape of the nib tapers in gradually rather than staying the same width the entire way through. Wacom has gotten rid of the gap on the button, making the stylus feel more durable. The Bluetooth switch on the Bamboo Ink Plus has also been fixed. The stylus connects to your tablet via Bluetooth – a feature which can also be found on the Surface Pen.

The barrel is now triangular, giving it a more ergonomic and ‘familiar pencil-like feel’ than its cylindrical predecessor and its covered in something like brushed rubber to give it better grip. The Bamboo stylus has also undergone a number of physical changes. Read our review of the Microsoft Surface Laptop 2 A large number of Microsoft Surface devices have yet to provide support for tilt so you might want to double check the specs on your tablet before you splash out for this feature. The Surface Pen also has tilt support but you might not be able to take advantage of the feature on either pen if you don’t have the right tablet. This allows the Plus stylus to be better suited to digital art than its predecessor. Tilt support makes strokes look more authentic by detecting when the pen is held at a natural angle and mimicking the results onscreen. Though this is shorter than the 15 month battery on the pen’s predecessor, users get the convenience of never having to replace the battery and even the most hardworking artists and note takers can spare 3 hours of their week to recharge.Īnother huge improvement to the Bamboo Ink Plus is the introduction of tilt support. The stylus can take up to three hours to charge fully but the battery is expected to last about 10 days if you were to use the pen two hours a day, five days a week.

Read our review of the Microsoft Surface Pro 6 Wacom have opted for an internal battery with a USB-C port to charge rather than the AAAA alkaline batteries found in the Surface Pen and the older Bamboo Ink stylus. The biggest step up for the Bamboo Ink Plus is the rechargeable Li-polymer battery.

The second generation of Wacom’s Windows Ink stylus is designed to aid note taking, sketching, drawing and visual thinking and its packed with improvements. Wacom’s new Bamboo Ink Plus stylus has the rechargeable battery the Microsoft Surface Pen seriously needs.

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