Dell's Canvas rivals Microsoft Surface Studio

Dell has launched a new gigantic tablet which aims to take on Microsoft's Surface Studio, a full-fledged desktop. This tablet is complete with a stylus to bring out the artist in you.

The new device called Dell Canvas 27 is a 27-inch tablet is a little weird as you need to connect it to a PC before using it. So basically it's a 27-inch screen which is used for sketching, animation and all those stylus related things. The display is an IPS panel with QHD resolution and 280 nits of brightness. Thankfully, the panel has a matte finish so it won't be reflective and can be easily used in broad daylight and is protected by Corning's Gorilla glass repots Engadget.

Though the display size is 27-inches but the device appears huge because of the large bezels around the screen. Dell has made these large bezels deliberately to allow palms to rest when you are using the Canvas. The screen supports 20-point multi touch and the digital pen supplied with the Canvas has 2048 pressure sensitive points.  

The Dell Canvas comes with dial just like Microsoft's Surface Studio and Dell calls is "Totem" but it only works when its touching the display unlike the Bluetooth connected dial for the Surface Studio. However, it has support for Microsoft's dial APIs but only few apps are currently available for these dials reports TheVerge including Adobe's Creative Suite. Dell has provided a custom software which can pin apps to edges of the screen for providing more space to work on the Canvas' screen.

The Dell Canvas is an excellent device for artists and people who want a big screen to do creative things such as painting and drawing. The only drawback would be the need to connect it to a PC and without it Canvas is just a 27-inch behemoth screen. There is no pricing and release date information for the Canvas as of now.