the feature is there. The LED light is helpful when I need a light source.
As for the stylus itself, I do sketches with SketchBook Pro and it works great!Overall impressions, LED flashlight, laser pointer, capacitive stylus.
1) When putting all the batteries in there, they rattle around. The pen is solid but there are rattling sounds coming from the pen like something is broken inside. I've ordered two of these pens (black and silver) and they both do the same when fully loaded with watch batteries. That's a shame, it sounds cheap and crappy. For a not-cheap pen, this is cheap.
2) LED Flashlight. It's a single LED and it lights up things well in the dark. It works. You have to hold the button; it's not a "toggle". You can't realistically use it for reading, definitely not for typing, but as a small flashlight, it works!
3) Laser pointer. Probably the strongest feature of this pen. The laser pointer works INCREDIBLY. I played with it a while. Pointed at things across the room. The kids thought it was a hoot. Then at dusk, with semi-daylight, I used the laser pointer to point at a wild rabbit that was chewing on clovers in the back yard 30 yards from the house, in the grass, THROUGH A DIRTY WINDOW. The laser was perfectly precise even at that distance. The kids thought it was a hoot. That's pretty good quality.
4) Capacitive stylus. This is not for detracting this particular model, but rather, the overall technology. The nub of the pen is the same as EVERY OTHER STYLUS. I bought a variety of them to find a good one for hand-writing notes on the tablet. Unfortunately, the tip of the pen is a round, soft thing about 3X as blunt as the tip of a sharpie. It's like writing with a big worn-out Crayola marker. I bought these to write notes on my tablets. These are OK for navigating and big, coarse sketches but they are absolutely useless as writing instruments. Don't even bother trying. It works with my Galaxy Tab 10, Acer A500, Googlesung Nexus 7, Galaxy Note 5.0, and other capacitive devices. It's functional. But it's not sensitive. NONE OF THEM ARE. Cheap, expensive or otherwise, DO NOT EXPECT TO HAND-WRITE CURSIVE NOTES ON YOUR TABLET. It simply doesn't work. I remember the good old days of the Palm Pilot with a resistive screen and a hard, sharp stylus that attempted to read your handwriting. It actually worked decently. With capacitive screens, you simply can't accomplish this.
I'll pay $100 for the stylus that lets me scrawl accurate handwriting and drawings on a capacitive screen. Right now, as far as I can tell, there is simply no option. The tip of this pen, as with EVERY capacitive pen, cheap and expensive, is like writing with a small bean bag.
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