Just to chime in,
I bought a 10.5 model past Monday (256, Cell+Wifi).
When starting up, it would show a line in a very pronounced way like described here.
Incidentally, that was not the only weird thing: when using the Pencil for handwriting in apps like MS OneNote but e.g. also the Nebo app, which shows a dedicated Pencil dialog on first install, any inking done would result in very jagged lines.
I have posted my findings on
Ask Different and
MS communities prior to finding this thread.
In summary, when I compare strokes by the pencil in OneNote between my original 9.7 inch iPad Pro and the new 10.5 inch model, using the same pencil, with a well attached tip and using the same note, lines written on the 10.5 would be choppy, wavy whereas on the 9.7 everything looks very natural.
The effect is shown in following images: first the Old iPad:
Next the new one:
Some might say 'oh but these are large zooms' but on the devices itself, even at 100% scale, you can immediately tell the text written on the new device is looks 'off'.
Another nice example:
In the pencil test dialog of Nebo, things were even worse:
With that final image, please note it only happens in the first dialog Nebo throws at you after installing, i.e. the 'test your pencil' dialog. Inside the actual app, a lot of stroke smoothing is applied anyway so there, everything again looks fine).
I accounted for all potential sources of this that I can control:
1) Checking the pencil is fine, even installed a new tip
2) Resetting the device, resetting OneNote
3) I went on the exchange the iPad
3) In some apps like Apple Notes, Goodnotes and Notability, everything is as before (no shaky strokes).
Now this is where it gets interesting:
The new iPad also shows the 'startup line' but less pronounced.
It also has the same pencil issue but ... less pronounced.
I do not wich to cause a stir but this seems odd.
At this moment, it could be many things:
1) An actual HW issue
2) An issue where, given the re-vamped display, pencil polling or latency or whatever changed in such a way that handling pencil data in apps needs to be updated in some cases (a lot of processing needs to be done by apps on inking data if you check the iOS API docs).
I would love to hear from other 10.5 users on their experiences here: particularly if they see the same inking behaviour in OneNote.
So I did not mean to hijack this thread but the issues with the lines was also so apparent and correlates with the extent of the inking issue I am seeing that I thought it might be worth mentioning here.
