Apple has right this moment unveiled a brand new “reasonably priced” Apple Pencil with USB-C that prices $79.
The corporate says the brand new Pencil is “supreme for be aware taking, sketching, annotating, journaling, and extra,” and options the identical matte end and flat design because the earlier mannequin.
The brand new Pencil can be out there in “early November” and can work with any iPad that has a USB-C port.
One huge innovation is that it has an precise USB-C for charging, moderately than a connector like the present fashions. You merely slide the cap off to disclose the port after which plug in a cable.
Apple says the brand new Pencil has the “similar superior pixel-perfect accuracy, low latency, and tilt sensitivity,” though it seems like stress sensitivity did not make the reduce. Hover, nonetheless, can be supported when used with M2 iPad Professional fashions.
It does have a magnetic attachment to your iPad, however magnetic wi-fi pairing and charging are reserved for the Apple Pencil 2nd era.
As famous, the brand new Pencil prices $79 and is popping out in early November. It will work with all of Apple’s greatest iPads together with the iPad (tenth era), iPad Air (4th and fifth generations), iPad Professional 11-inch (1st, 2nd, third, and 4th generations), iPad Professional 12.9-inch (third, 4th, fifth, and sixth generations), and iPad mini (sixth era).
We would heard rumors Apple might debut new iPad fashions right this moment together with a brand new iPad mini, iPad Air, and iPad eleventh era, which have not but been introduced. Nevertheless, Apple has dropped a number of releases and merchandise in someday earlier than, so there’s nonetheless time.
Whereas that is clearly a extra reasonably priced possibility at simply $79, the second-generation Apple Pencil, which has been out for a while, routinely falls to sale costs of $89 in huge occasions like Prime Day, and can probably be discounted once more within the upcoming Black Friday sale.