Google Pixelbook Pen

The pen works perfectly. It obviously is only for the Pixel Book Chrome OS device. It works flawlessly. It is pressure sensitive, you can easily tell it is quality built. It came with a single AAAA battery for the pen. It's sturdy and easily held. The feedback from the button is thought out and well set up.

I LOVE the pixelbook pen. It writes very smoothly and keeps up with fast paced note taking. Works with special apps, Google keep, Evernote. You can then import to Google Docs as an image. Works great for making electronic flash cards when you want that handwritten feel. Really good for me as a kinesthetic learner.

Expensive and not used. A finger works as well and does not take AAAA, hard to find, expensive batteries.

I had used Surface Tablets through multiple generations of their devices and loved them. After moving to Google Suite for work and deciding on a Pixelbook, I missed my pen, and decided to try this out. I can't believe I'm saying it, but I think I love this pen more! It is responsive and light, and I haven't seen much latency or lag on any of the apps I have used it with. The only dislikes I've had with the pen is that it is SMOOTH and therefore not very grippy to my hand. I feel like I adjust my hold on it more than I did with my previous pen-stylus. I also hit the Google Assistant button a LOT. I hope that eventually we'll be able to change the function of the button, because I have never once wanted to open Google Assistant with it (it picks up my voice...why would I hit a button to trigger that same function?), and would MUCH rather have it work as an eraser tool or 'right-click' tool. Other than that, I love it!

The pen just didn't do everything you wanted it to do. It honk they developed a better pen down the line. This original version just was not as useful as on would have hoped. It didn't write as well or interpret your writing as well as advertised. The drawing worked well and did allow you to backfill colors. Ideal for design work

The battery life is garbage. I've gone through six batteries in the last four months. Not that bad considering that I use it nearly every day for at least 2 hrs. But not even close to that Google estimate of 1 year. Maybe it's a firmware issue? In addition, there's no battery indicator so I have no clue when and where it's going to die, and the only metric I have to guess is how well the pen has been connecting lately. Because while the occasional minor drop is normal, the second the pen is even thinking about being out of battery, connection issues abound. Ultimately, I wish I knew about the battery thing because I would have bought the rechargeables they put in the surface pen instead of an 8-pack from Amazon. This pales in comparison to the thought of why Google didn't just custom make a battery that could recharge wire or wirelessly that would have shot the battery life into the moon. The tips are too damn expensive. To be fair, they're fairly reasonable considering the market. But would you let me buy and 9-10 pack for $45 instead of having to buy another three tip every two to three months. The button is in a bad spot for me because of my specific grip on the pen. Also, it's not programmable. I use the google assistant all the time now and I never use the pen to activate it. Heck if you turned the button into a press-to-talk directly to the Google Assistant (or the super man of this universe: GoogleWoman, or GoogleMan if you prefer) (i do). You know what happens next. Pen microphones. Not the real kind. The fake kind you only ever use in private or around loved ones. Although, putting an actual microphone on the pen would be a solid idea. Walking away from your computer but you can bring the pen and still talk to it. Saves the dorky BS of having to scream at your computer/Google Home from across the room. Regardless!!!! Still, all that considered, four stars. Google is new Apple and I hate it. I'm gonna call Pixelbook Support now.

This item has two problems that are suprising for a $100 item. Problem one: poor design the pen has no hook or clip or place on the pixelbook where the pen can be housed. It rolls away all the time or if you place it on the pixelbook above he keyboard, then there is a tendance to try to fold the screen down over it. Just a hassle. The pen is long, so I don't think it works well in shirt pockets. But it works well in skirt pockets and the pockets of my favorite big loose batik pants. Until you forget to take it out and have to hunt the house for a hidden item. II have a great briefcase that has an awesome set of pen pockets where it fits well, but i'm not so orderly that I always put it back in its place. It's always either in a bag or at the last table I worked at and i'm terrified of losing it. And I have come to dread that sound of one Pixelbook Pen rolling, rolling across an uneven table and hitting the floor. Problem two: and possibly more important is the lack of functionality. I don't know why I would take my hands off the keyboard to pick up--first find, oh! there it is on the floor!!-- and engage the assistant feature, which works primarily with words I could much more quickly cut and paste to search for. In my normal work I have no idea why that would be useful. It took a while and a blog post how to figure out how to trick the Pixelboook into letting me access Andorid apps from my G Suite account, which I now know how to do using search. Few items really require the pen for optimum use. I have to say that I have had good use out of it with goth Google Keep and Squid, While I prefer Keep for notaking and sharing, Squid is very powerful for highlighting text in documentsand saving the results robustly. I've almost justified the cost of this product with that one function, but I don't think it is near enough at this time. And I haven't tried and drawing programs quite yet, since that is not my work, and I prefer to doodle with my spindle or yarn. Ah Google, you always trick us into beta testing your half-baked ideas! That said, I love the Pixelbook and think it is worth every penny. I am a power user, I work full-time on my chromebook and I'm happy to have something much lighter to carry.

I have to say I haven't abused this as I should have to write a decent review, but so far so good. Works and it does what it says on the cover. Hardest part was to get it out of its box...boy, that box design needs to be improved! Otherwise a good accessory and useful for me.

On one hand, this item is extremely overpriced. On the other hand, I have owned many pen and/or touch-based laptops over the years as well as having used both passive and active stylus' on phones and tablets - even had an external USB Wacom pad too - but this coupled with a Pixelbook is by far the best pen computing experience I have ever had. Awesome detection and sensitivity. Superb, smooth writing. Useful button. Works great with Android apps. Good size and weight compared to most others. My only wish is that it could be stored in/on the Pixelbook itself somehow, because at this price, I'm terrified of losing it. (Like I lost my Stilo 2A. Not available anymore and I really miss it.)

Pixelbook を使うのならこのペンは必須です。タッチパネルで矢印を動かすのが唯一の方法と思っていたが、このペンを使うことで使い勝手が格段に向上します。

looks great. A holder would be lovely.

Works as expected.

I wasn't sure if I needed a pen and I'd read some mixed reviews but I love it. Really enjoy writing with it on my Pixelbook using Chrome OS 85s new handwriting-to-text feature.