All-around a nice tablet, but has a couple flaws
This is a review of the Huion Q11K V1.
The drawing surface is smooth but very lightly textured, so it doesn't feel like drawing on glass, but also not like drawing on bristol board.
The pen, the PF150, is very nice - it's light, tip-heavy (as opposed to tail-heavy), and the barrel buttons are easy to press but don't get in the way. The pen stand/holder is flawed. It has a nice heavy mental base with a rubber pad on the bottom, but the part that actually touches the pen is poorly shaped: only a small portion actually touches the pen when held vertically, causing it to jiggle freely in the base and potentially toppling out if you're the kind of person who bangs into their desk occasionally - the same problem exists when it's holding the pen horizontally, the "cradle" is just poorly shaped, partially because it's bidirectional but the pen is tapered, so it just rocks back and forth on the stand.
Charging is easy and straightforward, I just wish it didn't require two separate cables to charge the tablet and the pen. It's also kind of odd in that for the pen, there's a red LED that shuts *off* when the pen is done charging, and the tablet has a red LED that turns white when it's done charging.
The drawing area is huge, about 11x7, but it's not really all usable space, because if you want to draw naturally, you'll have to adjust the tablet in the driver to correct the aspect ratio to match your monitor, which removes some of the active area. Still larger than the vast majority of tablets.
The buttons are fine, I don't really use them.
The on/off switch on the left side of the tablet is a bit odd in that to turn the tablet ON, you have to slide the switch towards you, the opposite of what I would have expected, but perhaps that's just me.
The driver for this tablet is Huion's "new" (as of the tail end of 2018) driver software which is pretty and usable and surprisingly non-buggy. It just works. The tablet pressure curve adjustment feature leaves something to be desired though, because it only allows you to adjust the curve by means of a vertical slider, making the curve more convex or concave depending on its position - it does not allow you to adjust the curve itself manually.
The tablet works in both wired and wireless modes, I've been using it exclusively in wireless mode because it's simply more comfortable, and thus far it works well. There are occasional instances where the wireless connection seems to hitch, but then it goes away after a second and I typically don't see it again until the next time I draw.
All in all, this is in my opinion as good a tablet as you're likely to get for $100, so if that's your price range, go for it (or get the Q11K V2 which has pen tilt support).
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