The Fujitsu Stylistic Q702 Tablet PC is now available to order from the Tablet PC Store!
We recently took another look at a prototype of the upcoming Fujitsu Q702 and were intrigued to find a new N-Trig Active Digitizer Pen attached!
Here’s a picture of the new N-Trig G4 DuoSense Pen from the Fujitsu Stylistic Q702:
This new pen is a major breakthrough for the Q702 and N-Trig tablets everywhere!
Long term pen tablet users like us have used the Wacom Active Digitizer Pen and going to the previous N-Trig pens was generally a poor experience.
Here’s what N-Trig have changed on the new G4 pen:
- Pen tip action is now much finer
- There is no “clicky” feel and no noise
- Eraser function is available with the extra pen button
- End of the pen is rounded and feels much nicer.
When you put those refinements together with the high performance “Ivy Bridge” Intel Core i5 processor that is in the Q702 you have a pen experience that is on par with the Wacom Active Digitizer Pen. Wacom has been the gold standard on Microsoft Windows pen tablets for over 10 years.
The Q702’s N-Trig G4 Pen is still powered by a AAAA battery which will last a few months of use. But the upside of Fujitsu’s selection of N-Trig is that the technology is usually much better calibrated that the Wacom equivalent.
NTrig are known for their suck pens.
try to work with the tablet near a florescent light or power transformer and see what happens.
they have so many technical problems i cannot even know where to start …
There’s no doubt that Wacom is the better option. However the new N-Trig pen feels just as good to use as the Wacom.
Another good thing about the N-Trig is calibration is generally much better than Wacom.
It is prone to interference and the batteries run out too quickly though.
I am a professional using the q702 in portrait mode and primarily for pen use. The new “improved” digitizer by N-trig fails. It cannot be calibrated for portrait use. Also the pen stops working intermittently and inexplicably. What’s more attempts to download an updated version has been unsucessful both from fujitsu and N-trig. The pen works somewhat better in landscape mode but my office application works better for me in portrait mode. I have used the Wacom digitizers on other fujitsus and it is much more reliable. I also do not agree with the discussion on weight. It is fine and much better than toting around my old 5010
Hi Fujifan. Sorry to hear that you are still having issues with the N-Trig. BTW, our stock ended up coming with the old pen (not the one shown here) and we have had to purchase the new G4 pen separately. I haven’t come across the issue that you are having with the Pen calibration, but I suggest getting in touch with your local Fujitsu office or me if you purchased the tablet from our company.
The weight at 850grams is not significant for a tablet with this sort of power, I agree. It is much more productive and powerful than a consumer tablet, so it’s worth 100 grams in weight over an iPad.
It would be great if Fujitsu switched back to Wacom for any new models though. N-Trig is the one compromise of the Q702.