Bamboo Solo Stylus for iPad - Black (CS100K)

by Wacom

• Elegant, high end design
• Milled brushed aluminum
• Unique smooth pen to paper feel
• 25% smaller tip vs. competitor models
• Ergonomic design with optimal in-hand weight and balance

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.7 x 0.4 x 0.4 inches ; 0.2 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 0.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B004VM0SE6
• Item model number: CS100K
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1,069 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #3 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Computer Accessories > Input Devices > Graphics Tablet Styluses
  • #43 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Touch Screen Tablet Accessories
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 20, 2011

Product Description

Color: Black | Style: Solo

From the Manufacturer

Bring smooth, precise control to your touchscreen tablet with the Bamboo Stylus Solo. Ideal for note-taking, sketching, highlighting, and other forms of creative expression, this stylus combines balanced weighting with a satin-textured metal body to deliver a natural, pen-like experience. The stylus helps you harness the creative power of your tablet, so you can make the most of creative apps like Autodesk SketchBook or Wacom's own Bamboo Paper app. And with its elegant black-and-silver design, the Bamboo Stylus Solo is a stylish accessory that will seamlessly complement your tablet.

Write, Draw, and Sketch -- Get creative with your iPad. View larger.

Draw a moustache on a photo of your friend or create your next masterpiece. View larger.

Get personal -- send handwritten notes, keep a digital journal, or simply mark up that PDF for work. View larger.

The perfect app for a stylus -- handwrite notes, sketch out ideas, add hand-drawn elements to photos. Developed by Wacom for the Bamboo Stylus.

Pen-Like Performance Enhances Your Tablet Experience

The Bamboo Stylus Solo features a responsive pen tip for an improved pen-on-screen feeling on your mobile device. At just 6 mm wide, the tip is 25 percent narrower than those of many other styluses, allowing you to draw, sketch, and write with increased fineness and precision. You'll enjoy more accurate note-taking in meetings and classroom settings and greater creative flexibility when sketching and drawing.

Elegant Design with a Smooth, Natural Feel

The Bamboo Stylus Solo combines comfort and elegance with a satin-textured metal body and balanced weighting. With its natural and comfortable grip, this stylus delivers responsiveness and performance that rivals many high-end pens.

Expand the Versatility of Your Tablet

The Bamboo Stylus Solo makes your tablet even more versatile by making it possible to take handwritten notes, highlight text, edit documents, and sketch out ideas. Use it with creative apps to make your own art, capture your ideas, or edit photos.

Nibs Are Easy to Replace

Replacing the Bamboo Stylus Solo's nib is simple, making it easy to extend the life of your stylus.

Channel Your Creativity with Wacom's Bamboo Paper App

The ideal companion to the Bamboo Stylus Solo, Wacom's Bamboo Paper app helps you bring thoughts to life. This versatile app lets you take notes, make handwritten thank yous, or create a sketch--and then store them away in separate "notebooks" to reference or share. The free version of the app offers one notebook; the paid version lets you separate notes and ideas in up to 20 different notebooks.

Great Apps to Try with Your Stylus

• Bamboo Paper - Take notes, draw or doodle. Always have your notebooks with you.
• Paper 53 - Create beautiful calligraphic strokes and realistic watercolor marks.
• Adobe Reader - Handwrite notes in the margin and highlight important thoughts.
• Autodesk Sketchbook - Great to create artistic sketches with wide variety of brush settings.
• ScreenChomp - Draw and explain a concept, then share it as a replay-able video.
• Learn to Draw Digital Sketchbook - World-class art instruction at your fingertips.
• Clibe - Share your notebooks and get inspired by others, or keep them private for all your little secrets.
• Draw Something - Your friends won't know what hit them when you start playing draw something with your new stylus, you'll be racking up three-coin scores right and left.
• Angry Birds - Aim the slingshot with precision that will put those pigs to shame.

What's in the Box

Bamboo Stylus Solo.

Bamboo Stylus Solo

At a Glance:

• Smooth, precise line ideal for drawing, sketching, and note-taking
• 25% slimmer tip than many other styluses
• Balanced weight and firm grip for pen-like feel
• Elegant design with milled, brushed aluminum
• Easy-to-replace nibs for long-term use

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Wacom Bamboo Stylus Features	Solo	Pocket	Duo	feel Black	feel White	feel Carbon
Smooth Pen-like Performance	•	•	•	•	•	•
Balanced In-hand Feel	•	•	•	•	•	•
Uses Wacom feel IT Technology for Precision pen-input				•	•	•
25% Smaller Tip vs. Other Capacitive Styluses	•	•	•
Ball Point Pen			•
Collapsible Stylus Barrel		•
Interchangeable Color Rings		•
Built-in Storage		•
Nibs in Pack	1	2	1	3	3	4
Pressure Sensitive				•	•	•

Product Description

The Bamboo Stylus, from the leader in digital pen technology, is a brushed aluminum stylus for use with an iPad. The Bamboo Stylus is elegantly designed featuring a premium look and feel. A well balanced pen with smooth pen-to-paper feel, the Bamboo Stylus is durable with optimal weight and balance for comfortable use.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

371 of 391 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars With the right App this thing rocks! May 6, 2011

By J. Haggard TOP 100 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

Style Name:Solo| Color Name:Black|Amazon Vine™ Review (What's this?)

I have been trying to use my iPad at work more and more to eliminate carrying around a legal pad and always wasting paper. The issue I've come into is writing on the iPad has been a challenge. I've tried multiple pen stylus' before and never been happy so when I had the opportunity to review this one I jumped at the opportunity.

Initial impressions using the Bamboo Stylus were bad. I fired up Penultimate and started trying to write. The grip felt good, the stylus is comfortable in your hand but it was STILL like trying to write with a crayola crayon. It just didn't work well. The text was hard to read and it looked like a 4 year old was writing.

I was disappointed and tried a few other apps, the touch sensitivity of the Bamboo stylus is great. It is responsive and much faster then the other brands I've tried but it was still hard to write with.

But then I found NOTE TAKER HD, which is the ultimate app if you want to do hand writing on the iPad and use it like a real legal pad. Note taker HD gives you a large box on part of the screen you write it, which makes it easy as you write big but then the app shrinks the text down and puts it on the page. It's very slick and if you want to use the Bamboo Stylus for writing I highly recommend you pair it with the Note Taker App. After I did that I loved the Bamboo Stylus.

I carry my iPad around currently in a Marware eco-vue case and while there is no pen clip on the case I found the Bamboo stylus slides perfectly on the center fold of the case and will stay when the iPad is closed. So now I have my ipad, my case and a stylus.

In summary:

CON's
-Feels like writing with a crayon in most apps I tried.

PRO's
-Comfortable to hold
-Built well, the pocket clip is metal and not plastic like other brands where the clip will break off.
-With the right app (drawing or writing) this is easy to use
-Very responsive, in playing I was able to do shading, cursive you could see the change in line texture as I wrote based on pen angle and pressure.

I like it and am glad I got it. This stylus and the note taker HD app together are what I have been looking for to make my iPad more functional in the workplace.

UPDATE!! 7/6/2011 -
This stylus is still my favorite, but I wanted to let you know that Bamboo now has a free (at least as of the time I write this) app for your iPad so if you don't want to buy an app like Note Taker HD the Bamboo app compliments it nicely. I do however still prefer Note Taker HD as it has many additional features but Bamboo App works good too!

162 of 179 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Good stylus, but way overpriced June 17, 2011

By Matthew VanAndel

Style Name:Solo|Color Name:Black

You have a lot of choices when it comes to capacitive stylii - but the Wacom brand carries a lot of weight and loyalty, and that has turned this johnny-come-lately stylus into the de-facto choice for many iPad owners and artists.

That's fine, the Bamboo is a great stylus. It works well and feels substantive, solid, and well made. I have only one problem with it - the PenGo Touchpen iPad Stylus is half the price and is virtually identical to the Bamboo in every way. Both have a smallish rubber-bubble tip, are about the same size, length, and style, and both feel and behave exactly the same way in every iPad app I've used (Penultimate, uPad, Sketchbook Pro, Inspire Pro, etc). Also, both have the same "squishy" character when writing or drawing. Still, as far as squishyness is concerned, both the Pengo and Bamboo stylii feel much better than their competitors thanks to their smaller tips.

I will say this - the Bamboo's construction feels more substantive than the Pengo's does, and it LOOKS more professional. For some, that's a critical point, especially when cost is no object. For instance, the Bamboo feels more "solid" where the Pengo feels light and empty. But does that make the Bamboo worth twice the Pengo stylus? Personally, I think not... besides, some may prefer the lighter hand-feel of the Pengo. Ultimately, it's a matter of taste and cost.

You certainly won't be disappointed with the Bamboo - but if you want the same great writing experience at half the cost, you should seriously consider the PenGo Touchpen iPad Stylus too.

295 of 334 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Good Stylus, Bad Price! May 29, 2011

By iJavaJoe

Style Name:Solo|Color Name:Black

The Wacom Bamboo stylus for iPad works rather well. In my experience it draws respectably and feels good in the hand. The Bambou has a soft rubber tip that reacts serviceabily on the iPad screen. A rubber tip stylus works much better than a sponge tipped stylus, like the Pogo. However, Boxwave, Acase, and Targus all make very good rubber tip styli that work nicely , perhaps even better than the Bamboo stylus, and on Amazon they cost anywhere from half to one third the price.

Unfortunately I see no real advantage to the Bambou stylist. The tip isn't smaller then any of the aforementioned styli and if the tip wears out you can't replace it. It's true the Bambou is a bit heftier than the other styluses, but in use, a heavier stylist tends to tire your hand out more and after several hours of drawing or typing this can be most tiresome.

Wacom is a very well-respected name in the tablet industry. They make excellent products. This is a good product at an outrageous price. If Wacom would work to redesign this stylus with a smaller, replaceable and more responsive tip it might justify the price. For the time being, until the price comes down in half, I would recommend going after one of several less expensive and as good alternatives. There's just no advantage to this stylus.