The current Surface Pen is based on technology developed by N-trig (Microsoft eventually bought the company) that is now known as Windows Ink. There are some Windows Ink devices from companies other than Microsoft; the Surface Pen will also work with those. HP, Dell, and Lenovo all make them.
The original Surface Pen used Penabled technology from Wacom, also known as EMR. Again, there were also some non-Microsoft devices that used it. Wacom is no longer actively marketing that technology and I don’t know of any current systems that use it.
Wacom’s own current tablets and computers use a different technology called Active ES. Wacom has not licensed that to any other companies.
A “general touchscreen stylus” is a capacitive stylus that is designed for use with capacitive touchscreens that are normally activated by a finger. (The ones with a soft rubber tip won’t work with a resistive touchscreen, the kind that require pressure and is found on inexpensive consumer electronics.) A standard capacitive touchscreen does not offer the resolution and precision that a true pen digitizer can, nor can it respond to pressure or tilt. A stylus like that will function on a Surface device or a Wacom computer (unlike the Wacom drawing tablets, the computers have a dual-mode screen that works with finger touch as well as with the Wacom pen), but won’t match the performance of the pen that is designed for those systems.
It doesn’t work with only Surface devices. It is an active pen (not passive!) [1] that works by manipulating electromagnetic fields, not just creating pressure. It works with any device that can interpret its signals.
1. Surface Pen - Wikipedia [ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Pen ]
No it is not a general touch screen stylus. Not even a general stylus works on surface devices.
Microsoft call it a PixelSense technology (patented by Microsoft).
I hope this answers your question well.
No, not yet.
A surface pen cannot be charged. But we can charge the battery of the surface pen. Surface pen uses an AAAA battery [ https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-surface-pen-batteries-aebc1082-c21c-c9ff-6e6e-9df029f17bb4?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us ]. So, principally, we can use a rechargeable AAA battery for the pen.
How do I use a surface stylus with another computer?
To support a stylus you need a display with an extra hardware layer over and above just a standard touch screen so the other computers screen has to have a touch screen that supports a stylus and as you are asking how I presume the other computer lacks the hardware needed or it would have stylus enabled by default. On Android, there are some apps that give a poor imitation of a fully enabled, for a stylus, touch screen maybe there are also apps in the Microsoft store.
It wont work like an active stylus. The Surface Pen is suppose to work with Surface and Apple pencil with iPad Pro. But lemme go home and try to see how it works. I will update on that.
This is the video of my test. NO it doesnt work. They work with their own devices only.
The first two generations of the Surface and Surface Pro used Penabled technology (also known as EMR) that was licensed from Wacom. It is not identical to the ES pen technology used on current Wacom tablets and the pens are not compatible.
Later Surface products use pen technology developed by N-trig, a company that was later bought by Microsoft. It is now known as Windows Ink. It is incompatible with Wacom pen technology; pens designed for one will not normally work with the other. The Surface Pen will not work with a Wacom tablet, and the pen provided with a Wacom product will not work with a Surface.
Wacom makes two pen products, the Bamboo Ink and Bamboo Ink Plus, that are compatible with Windows Ink as well as Wacom’s current ES. They will work with the third generation and later Surface and Surface Pro, as well as all other Surface products and current Wacom products.
That’s going to depend entirely on your use case.
Personally I prefer the Surface Pro X, but for my use case, the bigger screen and super-long battery life is a huge plus.
The advantages to the Surface Go are primarily its compact size and low price. If you need a full-fleged (albeit fairly low-power) PC that you can cary with you all the time, the Surface Go is a great choice. If you need something more powerful, or if you need something bigger, it’s not.
Touch screens on computers are typically just capacitive touch screens. These rely on the conductivity of a human finger to “complete the circuit.” An active stylus doesn’t just complete a circuit. They normally feature a host of features such as pressure and a floating location. The use of “active” in their name implies that they aren’t a “dumb stylus” like what you see with a stylus for capacitive touch screens that have a conductive material on the tip.
Active styluses communicate with additional hardware (typically referred to as a digitizer) in the device that accepts the signals sent out by the stylus.
If you have a device that has a digitizer in it and can use an active stylus, this doesn’t mean that you can use any active stylus. This is because of a communication difference between the two pieces of hardware. They simply don’t understand each other. This is similar to an English only speaker trying to talk to a Chinese only speaker, you just don’t understand each other despite their being others that do understand what you are saying.
