XPPen Deco 03 Wireless 2.4G Digital Graphics Drawing Tablet Drawing Pen Tablet with Battery-Free Passive Stylus and 6 Shortcut Keys (8192 Levels Pressure) 10×6 Inches

Awesome tablet with some minor nitpicks…
My intuos 4 pen recently went missing somehow (I blame her dog, she blames my cat). Given the low price of the deco 03 (not that much more than replacing the wacom pen alone), and the fact that it could get to me quicker than an intuos pen, I decided to take a chance with it. I’ve only had it for a month, so I’ll revisit my review after I put some more hours on it, but thus far it has far exceeded my expectations. The build quality has me hoping xp pen makes a cintiq competitor soon, as I’d buy one in a heartbeat. I’m a semi-professional artist, so I use my tablet a lot, though it’s not my full time gig, so it’s not getting 8 hours of use per day. Over the last month it’s probably averaged about 1-4 hours per day of use, and it’s holding up well. The drawing surface shows wear, but nothing unreasonable.Pros:Price– Larger than comparable wacom for less than half the price.Accuracy and Pressure control — fantastic. Seems as accurate as my wacom, and the pressure sensitivity is more than I can possibly utilize.Drivers — I expected some problems here, but they installed fine, have worked without issue the entire month, and allow for a lot of control…Build quality– is very high. I expected it to feel cheap, but it really doesn’t.Very light/thin. I never took my Intuos 4 anywhere because it was juuust a bit too clunky to drag around, but this thing is super thin and very light. I regularly throw it in my backpack to work away from home…Cons: (all are minor nitpicks)No barrel roll or tilt– This is not an issue for most of the stuff I do for work, but when Im just painting for myself I really miss tilt. I hope xppen adds this functionality at some point.Button binding — The only thing the drivers lack is the ability to bind *anything* you want to the buttons. The options are pretty good, so it’s probably not an issue for for 99% of the things people will want to bind, but photoshop drag-to-resize tool requires alt+left click (and can’t be remapped for some reason), which you can’t bind with the xp pen drivers (wacoms do let you).Pen tips — You get a bunch, but there’s just one type. I’d like options for different hardnesses to find one that really feels good to me. The basic tip is ok, but it has a very specific, smooth plastic-on-plastic feel that isn’t my favorite. Also, the replacement tips are fairly hard to pull out of their case. I had to get needle-nose pliers to pull one out when I needed to replace the first tip, which wore a flat spot in a month of moderate use. That was a lot faster than I expected. I can probably extend that out by being more conscious about rolling the pen occasionally so as to not draw on the same spot every time, but time will tell if this is a real issue.Pen distance — One thing that took a little getting used to is that the tablet doesn’t read the pen location until you get fairly close to the surface of the tablet (I’d guess 1/2 to 3/4 inch, but I didn’t measure it). At first this was really frustrating because I was used to the wacom which has a much further read distance, so frequently when I’d pull off my drawing to use a button function, the pen would stop registering as I was striking hotkeys, and things would get mucked up. I’m getting used to it, so it’s mostly not an issue, but it would be a nice quality of life improvement if they could increase the read distance even a little bit.Pen buttons — The last minor nitpick is that the bottom barrel button on the pen is too flat along the side of the pen. When drawing it’s easy to kinda lose where the buttons are, and hard to locate the by feel. I’d rather they had a bit bigger profile to rest your finger on/let you find them easier…

Se está procurando sensibilidade e estabilidade, ela tem! Se procura àrea grande de trabalho, ela também tem!Super fina, não ocupa espaço e a bateria dura muito, a ponto de esquecer de recarregar.Funciona perfeitamente no pc, celular e tablet, no mac é meio chato de configurar, mas é um problema apple e não XP.Vale muito o investmento!

una gran opción de desde artistas básicos a intermedios e incluso avanzados, con una igual de buena relación calidad precio, posee un buena zona de dibujo y en cuanto a los botones y el dial son ideales para olvidarte de usar el teclado al momento te trabajar y no estar saltando de uno al otro, lo he probado en affinity photo, affinity design, adobe photoshop y adobe illustrator y otros como krita y en ninguno he tenido problema, los programas lo reconocen de inmediato tan solo en cada programa solo debes activar la sensibilidad a la presión, ademas puedes programar los botones en general o por perfil para que funcionen diferente en cada aplicación, lo mejor para mi es el dial ya que es muy cómodo acercarte, alejarte o rotar del lienzo e incluso cambiar el tamaño de tus pinceles, y en cuanto al modo wireless es muy bueno lo he probado a distancias desde 2.5m sin ninguna perdida responsiva, ademas esto se mejora con la duración de la batería ya que apagándolo al tiempo de no usarla esta dura muchísimo (en mi caso 5 días)dependiendo el uso que le des, si lo olvidas apagar entra en modo reposo y este me a durado de 2 a 3 días para reactivarla solo debes presionar uno de los botones de la tableta.

Update June 2024. I have been using it for the last few months and it is excellent. Based on all my research XP-Pen products are good value.Purchased March 2023 and it has worked great, however I have not used it as much as I originally intended.