These Tablets are not backlit, you'll need to make sure you're in a room with adequate overhead lighting in order to see what you're writing. So if you're giving this to your child to draw on in the backseat during a late night drive they most likely wont be able to see what they're drawing at all.
The ease of drawing is pretty good, but it honestly doesn't feel like this board will last long at all, it feels made of cheap plastic that will easily break and the screen feels like it would be easy to scratch and scuff up.
It comes with a battery but its luck of the draw if your battery will be good in it. I had to buy a new battery for mine, which essentially tacked on an extra $5 for me. Battery type is a size 2016.
The battery compartment is also held in by an extremely tiny screw, most people don't keep such a small specialty philips head screw driver, so that might be another possible expense. Opening the battery compartment is weird as well, there was no directions with my box and intuitively you'd think it would swing open from where you unscrew it, but nope there's another clasp on the other side you have to pinch to unlock it. Had to literally go back to the product page and find a picture of it being opened to see how.
I also probably didnt read the product page close enough, when i read "8.5inch" i was thinking it was standard writing paper size. It's actually only 8.5inch long, and that's not a measurement of the screen length. Screen is closer to 6.5inch long, so it quite a small writing surface.
I bought it for use with studying computer algorithms so i'll see how useful it is or if personally i'd need something larger.
The "erase" button works great however, will immediately and completely clear the screen, and nicely there is a lock function to prevent any accidental erasing.
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