Android Advisor — November 2017

(Greg DeLong) #1

12 ANDROID ADVISOR • ISSUE 44


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information, or transcribe the text for you. In my tests
it also seemed to learn from its mistakes: a search on
an image from Rome yielded results that were slightly
off, but repeat tries led to more precise responses.
For me, the real fun began when I tried drawing
apps like Painter. In the course of making the sketch
shown below, the pen’s 10ms latency rarely distracted
me, but I already found myself wishing for more levels
of pressure when I wanted to create finer areas of
shading. Still, the ability to get off the keyboard and
trackpad and get creative is something I love about
all the pen support.

Using the Painter app on Google’s Pixelbook with the Pixelbook
Pen, it was easy and fun to make this drawing. I noticed a little pen
lag, and the pen was unable to pick up some of my lighter strokes
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