Graphics Drawing Tablet VEIKK S640 6x4 Inch Portable OSU Tablet with 8192 Levels Battery-free Stylus Pen for Digital Art&Animation,compatible with PC/Mac/Linux/Windows

Hello Folks!I’m Chris, I’m a professional artist, and my tablet is more-or-less my life. Keep drawing, keep getting money, keep buying groceries. Take it from me when I say that recommending tablets is an important thing… and I gotta say: I definitely recommend the S640 for either those beginner artists in your life, or for inclusion with a mobile setup.The S640 was a wonderful little peripheral. It is very light and very compact, so it is wonderful for throwing in a bag and running off wherever you may want to go. As a life-long Wacom user, I am incredibly adverse to the woes of a battery-powered pen. I find them heavy and clunky, and they become incredibly annoying when the battery gets to its low end. To that effect, I was incredibly pleased to find that Veikk’s products use a battery-less pen. No fussing with a battery is always a win, and it is even more so, considering how sensitive the pressure function is and how reactive it is as a mouse.If price is a factor, Veikk has made a very cost effective product. The S640 is roughly $30 USD, and after a little research, I found the closest Wacom product (the Wacom One) is around $60 USD. On top of its highly competitive price, the S640 also comes packaged with several replacement nibs for the stylus and a couple different adapters so that you can connect it through some non standard ports.I punished this product, trying to see what issues I could find with it. While I would love to say this product is without faults, I will say that everytime I ran into an issue with it, the people at Veikk were very willing to help me solve them. I absolutely was way meaner to this machine and its driver than they likely intended, and throughout the process of me trying to find problems with this product, the staff at Veikk was very quick to help me out and find solutions to problems that I could not! I will say since this is a relatively unknown brand, it may be a bit difficult to find tutorials on fixing issues online.The main issues that I really can point out (that are not immediately fixable by their support staff) are to do with the build of the device. The construction of the device does feel a little flimsy. It is very thin, and has a particular point that I was worried about as I wiggled it around trying to see if I could break it; but I am pleased to report that I did not break it, and wouldn’t expect it to break under any reasonable day-to-day stresses. The nibs admittedly are a little bit noisy as well when you first trade them out, but after a few minutes of doodling the ends smooth out a little, and it's back to peacefully working.TLDR;------PROS------Stylus does not require batteries. Fantastic feature.Pressure sensitivity is very reactive.Very good price point. Wacom’s closest competitive tablet is the One, with similar dimensions and costs around $60USDBox comes with several replacement pen nibs included, as well as adapters for other, non-usb connectors.Veikk staff have been very willing to work with me as I test their drivers, even though that is not technically what they asked me to do. :D------CONS------Relatively unknown brand. Not a lot of troubleshooting for this brand exists on the internet.Construction of the tablet seems flimsy. You can see raw silicon(?) on the sides of the tablet body; but I have not had any sort of breaking or cracking.First few minutes of use, the pen nibs are very noisy; but after a few minutes of doodling, they tone down.The long and short of it is that the S640 is a good product. It's small, it's light, it’s cost effective, it doesn't need extra batteries, and when I ran into problems Veikk’s staff was quick to help me out. I am so confident in this device, that I am highly considering their VK1560 for when my old Cintiq 13HD finally kicks the bucket, now knowing the quality of their products.

The media could not be loaded. Getting right into it, the S640 is advertised primarily as an OSU! Tablet, so with that in mind I’m grading this as such. With other tablets that I have reviewed in the past, I take a good look at portability since I normally have to work or play on the go. The S640 is by far the smallest and most portable tablet I have reviewed by VEIKK thus far. This one is sleek, lightweight and compact which makes it EXTREMELY easy to slip this in your bag for on-the-go OSU action. The active drawing area is quite small but this helps to jump rapidly between notes as you play OSU since a smaller tablet means there’s less distance for your hand/arm to travel to hit notes. On the flip side, the small active area makes it a little less comfortable to use this as your mainstay drawing tablet for illustrations that require precise strokes because your hand is confined to the smaller area.Regarding durability, I have accidentally dropped this on a kitchen tile floor and the S640 survived. I’m not comfortable pushing my luck with an ultra-thin drawing tablet like this, but at least it’s durable enough to survive a handful of clumsy accidents. With appearances, the tablet sports a matte black body with a glossy black strip on the thick part --which is fine, but I always prefer having color choices. The dark color really works against you when working in the dark and the small size and lack of persistent lights makes it a little difficult to find in a dark room.For those that are concerned, the S640’s pressure sensitivity is on par with any other current tablet brands. Regarding software, I’ve tested this with OSU, Clip Studio Paint and very briefly with Zbrush with no percievable problems, though if you are used to a tablet with hotkeys, this will feel weird. I don’t have any issues with responsiveness, which is great. There’s no hotkeys or a gesture touch area like the A15 and A30 tablet models but on a small tablet like this, those features would actually get in the way. This product doesn’t need hotkeys considering that most tablet OSU players use the keyboard to alternate pressing keys instead of using tablet hotkeys.PROS---------------+S640's drawing surface is very smooth when drawing on it.+No batteries needed for the tablet pen.+Super lightweight and portable.+An inexpensive choice for OSU enthusiasts or beginners new to graphics tablets.+Tablet design is very streamlined.+The driver has options to accommodate both left and right-handed users.CONS----------------It becomes easy to lose the pen without the pen sleeve.-Easy to lose track of the tablet in the dark due to the lack of persistent lights on the tablet and small profile.-The pen feels a little light for someone with heavy hands.-It's VERY thin so naturally I'm afraid of putting it in a bag with heavy books or objects.-Because of the small size, it’s hard to use it for drawing for long periods of time without cramping your hand.-The tablet software isn't as polished as other interfaces.CONCLUSION---------------Even though you can use the S640 this for illustration and painting, it’s definitely feels like it is designed to be used for playing OSU. I can only recommend this for absolute drawing tablet beginners or people that want a functional OSU tablet with a very small desk footprint. Even though the tablet only comes in black, I’ve seen people make custom sleeves or covers for these, which is comforting for those that love customization. Like any tablet, installation can be frustrating but following the provided instructions should solve any problems you may have. For a small and portable tablet for OSU! it really can’t be beat. But if you are looking for a tablet more suited to drawing long term, I would actually recommend the VEIKK A15 or A30 due to the hotkeys and larger drawing size. All in all, I can’t find any serious faults in the S640 worth docking a star for.

veikk is my first ever pad. It has a bit of a learning curve due to the following:1. it represents the entire screen onto the pad, so wherever the pen lands on the pad immediately teleports the mouse on screen to the corresponding location. This is markedly different from how a laptop’s touchpad or a regular mouse for a computer works, which only detects the movement of the finger on the touch pad / physical mouse and converts it to a change in position for the mouse on the screen. At times I would take a moment lookin for where my mouse on the screen was.2. the mouse on screen starts moving well before the pen actually touches the pad. This was by design, as the pen touching the pad corresponded to an actual click/drag. Again this is different from a laptop’s touch pad, where tactile contact is needed for the mouse to move and a click/drag on screen is achieved by a double-tap on the pad.I am still struggling to adapt to how close the pen needs to be for the pad to detect it, which results in some miss-fires when I draw stuff on, say, aggie.io3. there are 2 buttons on the side of the pen, which I think are meant to emulate left/right clicks. If such were the case, then perhaps there might be a way to do away with the issue in item 2? In any case, these buttons are far too close to where my fingers are when I simply try to hold the pen, resulting in many, many accidental miss-clicks, especially right clicks.All 3 items above result in me having shaky drawings or not able to write stuff on screen properly, but I think it is a matter of time just getting used to the product.