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September 9, 2015

Apple’s iPad Pro accessories include a Smart Keyboard and Pencil stylus

by John_A

Apple’s larger iPad Pro is aimed at suits and other creative professionals that want to get work done. Although its 12.9-inch display offers plenty of pixels for your fingers to poke at, the company is also offering a standalone keyboard and stylus accessories. The latter is called the Pencil — while you’re scribbling on the display, Apple says the panel will refresh twice as fast to record your input with the utmost accuracy. The stylus can also be used simultaneously with your finger, allowing for deft smudges in illustrative and note-taking apps. Pencil’s internal battery lasts for “hours of use,” Apple claims, and can be connected directly to the iPad Pro whenever you need to charge it back up again.

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The “Smart Keyboard,” meanwhile, attaches to the iPad Pro via a new connector on the side of the tablet. It’s called a Smart Connector, looks like three small buttons and just “slides in,” according to Apple. It contains a full QWERTY keyboard and each individual key has the same butterfly key technology found in the original 12-inch Macbook.

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