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Mini Handwriting Pad - 2008 4th Generation

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Can be act as drawing pad, signature pad, and mouse
 Doubles as a casual digitizer for simple drawings

Recognizes Chinese (traditional/simplified), Japanese, English input
Accept single characters or sentence input
Pronounce Chinese (Cantonese/Mandarin) or English as you write

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(uploaded by manytwos) back of box (uploaded by manytwos) everything that came with the box (uploaded by descensiongod) Compare the writing area to the size of the quarter on the side.

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Staff Review: 

Although drawing performance is no where near WACOM, this little pad is good for making simple graphics in Paint/Photoshop, signing electronic documents, or using it as a backup mouse.

This pad suffers from the lack of writing pressure sensor, the relative small writing area, and the Chinese base installation setup program (it's actually a one-click setup program, so it isn't that bad. When you run the program, you can choose English menu instead).

In addition, the writable area of this unit and it's large cousin (7th-gen) pad is the same. The only difference is that the 7th-gen pad has a larger casing.



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Ownership verified by DX Umm pad ok?
Posted by DXisBest on 2/26/2009
Involvement: General (knows how to use it) - Ownership: more than 1 month

Price: starstarstarstarstar
Ease of Use: starstarstar
Build Quality: starstarstar
Usefulness: starstar
Overall Rating: starstarstarstar

Pros: pad is good. good for parts too.

Cons: Not much at all but the included software sucks. Ok so maybe the software ain't so good. The software is very unreliable(ie.slow computer)
so get it from searching google.

Other Thoughts: not too big nor small. You should get it but consider the bad software.
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Bottomline: Need to read chinese of tranlate it? get this definetly.

Ownership verified by DX Hand Writing Pad
Posted by itechlegend on 12/4/2008
Involvement: Expert (understands the inner workings) - Ownership: less than 1 day

Price: starstarstarstar
Ease of Use: starstarstar
Build Quality: starstarstarstar
Usefulness: starstar
Overall Rating: starstarstarstar

Pros: Its really so small, weightless and handy.
A simple and cheap alternative to WACOM. It does its job well. Everything as said.

Cons: Its not the perfect writing pad, and certainly its not at all good for drawing even in mspaint. it struggles to work as a mouse but works fine as a pen. as others said, the software is another problem finding a good one in english. for me the one came in the cd wasnt good. i downloaded the english supported software from a link posted in the forum section.
it dint work well as a pen inside my onenote(that is the purpose why i bought this). as i said it struggles for being a mouse.

Other Thoughts: Its cheap, and good to play with. As i said above, you get wat you pay for. but, for this one i would say you get a bit more for what you paid for. but still its not the solution for your creativity but a best device to learn kanji's.

Bottomline: Buy it if you want to learn Chinese and Japanese Kanjis, dont build too much expectations thinking wacom in mind after ordering this product. though it didnt serve the exact purpose of purchase i am still happy with this product.

Ownership verified by DX Cheap but not so good
Posted by Jotoco on 5/18/2008
Involvement: General (knows how to use it) - Ownership: 1 week to 1 month

Price: starstarstarstar
Ease of Use: starstar
Build Quality: starstar
Usefulness: starstarstarstar
Overall Rating: starstarstar

Pros: It's nice to play a little, to draw a little simples drawings....
it's cheap.

Cons: - I don't know chinese, that's make the use a bit difficult...
- It hasn't got software in English, only in Chinese...
- The performance is bad, If you want to buy it to draw something more complicated...

Other Thoughts: It's cheap. So you get what you pay for it.

Bottomline: Don't buy if you want to draw or to make signatures online.
I would suggest for DX that they put some software in English, that would make everyone's job a lot easier.

Ownership verified by DX You get what you pay for
Posted by kwokkie on 1/30/2008
Involvement: General (knows how to use it) - Ownership: less than 1 day

Price: starstarstarstar
Ease of Use: starstar
Build Quality: star
Usefulness: starstar
Overall Rating: starstar

Pros: It's cheap.

Cons: Not very responsive. I'd say there's half a second delay between my actual movements, and the cursor following my movements on screen. Also it has a horrible resolution. The mouse cursor does a staircase-like movement when you draw a diagonal line a bit slowly. If you draw it fast, it looks better, but that's probably due to the software averaging the pen position. This would also explain the poor response time. Aw, well, can't really complain about a 7 dollar product I guess.

Other Thoughts: I think I got a different model. The box looks slightly different from the customer pictures uploaded here.

Bottomline: Maybe you get lucky and get a better one than I did. Reading other reviewer's positive comments makes me think I just got the wrong item

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Product features:
- Large writing area (75 x 50 mm).
- Learns as you write for continued recognition improvements.
- Three hardware keys for switching toggling writing and mouse modes
- Supports Unicode for Traditional or Simplified Chinese character input (BIG5 and GB).
- Supports both English and Chinese Windows 98/Me/2000/XP.
- Capable of recognizing over 23,000 Chinese characters, 4,818 Hong Kong words, alphabets, numbers, symbols. Hiragana, Katakana, even digital signature.
- Two writing modes (windowed and full screen) with automatic stroke order correction.
- USB interface.

Package includes:
1 x USB Tablet
1 x Stylus
1 x Driver and Software CD

System Requirements:
- Win 98 / Me / 2000 / XP
- One Free USB port
- CD-ROM drive (for installation only)

Length: 4.33 "
Height: 0.79 "
Width: 4.13 "
Weight: 4.89 oz

Length: 11.0 cm
Height: 2.0 cm
Width: 10.5 cm
Weight: 138.5 gram




Usage Instructions Return to top    
Install the software with two clicks. Start the program and start writing, signing and moving around your desktop and applications.

* Download step by step installation instruction
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